From Pharmacy Student to Suspected Terrorist: Malik’s Baffling Journey

Tashfeen Malik pledged allegiance to the leader of ISIS just before she and her husband carried out the San Bernardino massacre, law enforcement sources told NBC News. They died in a shootout with police.

Saira Khan, the older sister of alleged San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook, is hoping to adopt the baby girl who was left behind by Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik.

Residents described the town as sleepy – a community that was once buoyed by a citrus industry that has since faded, NBC News reported.

The FBI is investigating the shooting as an act of terrorism apparently inspired by the extremist group Islamic State.

The San Bernardino Fire Department said the shooting took place on the 1300 block of Waterman Avenue, near Orange Show Road.

President Barack Obama delivered a prime-time address Sunday night, telling the nation the attack was an “act of terrorism created to kill innocent people”. She studied pharmacy at Bahauddin Zakariya University in the Pakistani city of Multan in 2012, according to the university’s vice chancellor. After that, she said, she did not see them together again. 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. “We don’t know yet what they mean”, the official said.

As the FBI investigates the attack as an act of terrorism possibly inspired by ISIS, the agency is now working to determine if the man, a former neighbor of one of the attackers – Syed Rizwan Farook – had any knowledge of the plot, The Washington Post reports.

“What we see right now I think is just the beginning of directed attacks and self-radicalization that leads to attacks like what we think happened in San Bernardino, and we’re going to have to ask our technology companies — and Israel is leader in this area — to help us on this”, she said.

Balloons adorn a makeshift memorial site honoring the victims of Wednesday’s shooting rampage, Friday, Dec. 4, 2015, in San Bernardino, Calif. The FBI said Friday it is officially investigating the mass shooting in California as… A year before she got married, Malik began wearing a scarf that covered all but her nose and eyes, said the maid who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of jeopardizing her job with the family.

Islamic State also claimed responsibility for a November 13 series of attacks in Paris in which gunmen and suicide bombers killed 130 people.

On Thursday, as investigators were searching for a motive, Obama said at the White House that the shootings could have been terrorist-related or workplace-related.

Tashfeen Malik, the Pakistani woman involved in the California mass shooting last week, may have influenced her American husband toward violence, the chair of the United States’ House Homeland Security Committee says.

“She was very conservative”.

There was “evidence … of extreme planning” of the killings, said David Bowdich, assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation office in Los Angeles. Both weapons were modified to be more lethal. At home, they had 12 pipe bombs, tools to make more explosives and well over 4,500 rounds, police said.

Malik, 29, was born and raised in Pakistan and moved to Saudi Arabia around the ages of 18 or 20, the attorney said.

In 2006, Rafia Farook, who records indicate is his mother, filed in a Riverside court for divorce from her husband, also named Syed Farook.

Separately, a law enforcement official said investigators are looking into whether Malik was radicalized in the Middle East, where she spent considerable time, and used her 2014 marriage to Farook to penetrate the US and commit jihad.