San Bernardino shooting was ‘act of terrorism’

Tashfeen Malik, the female California shooter, pledged allegiance to the leader of the terror group ISIS on the same day she and her husband murdered 14 people and wounded 21 others.

A lawyer who’s representing the family of Syed Farook raised Sandy Hook truther conspiracy theories to question the official account of the San Bernardino mass shooting.

According to law enforcement officials, the Pakistan-born 27-year-old swore allegiance to the extremist organisation’s leader, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi.

“So far we have no indication these killers were part of an organized larger group or formed part of a cell”, Comey told reporters at a press conference in Washington, D.C. “There is no indication they were part of a network”, he said.

The FBI, which has taken over the case from local authorities, cautioned that they needed time to investigate. Farook, Bowdich said Friday, was not under active surveillance by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The investigation into the California carnage has spread to Pakistan, where intelligence officials questioned members of Malik’s family, including her uncle, Javed Rabbani, the brother of her father, Gulzar.

Investigators look at the vehicle involved in a shootout between police and two suspects in San Bernardino.

This undated photo provided by the California Department of Motor Vehicles shows Syed Rizwan Farook who has been named as the shooting suspect in the San Bernardino shootings.

The lawyers said their clients have been threatened since Wednesday’s killing of 14 people at Farook’s work place.

Chesley said Tashfeen, who met Farook on an online dating site in 2013 and married him a year later in Saudi Arabia, was traditional and devout. A USA government source said such a cache of weapons indicated they might have meant to carry out a more elaborate attack.

Before the attack the couple left their 6-month-old daughter with Farook’s mother, who lived upstairs in their rented townhouse.

Police said the couple had two assault-style rifles, two semi-automatic handguns and 1,600 rounds of ammunition in their vehicle, with 12 pipe bombs found in their home.

But the official said there was no sign that anyone affiliated with the Islamic State communicated back with her, and there was no evidence of any operational instructions being conveyed to her.