San Bernardino attackers talked ‘about jihad and martyrdom’ 2 years ago

“As I said on day one, we will leave no stone unturned”, Bowdich said, warning that the “massive” investigation in San Bernardino would go on for some time and could include canvassing neighborhoods. “We have now put a dive team into that lake a logical part of covering that lead”, said Bowdich at an impromtu news conference.

There was a slew of developments on Thursday in the investigation into the lives of Farook, 28, and his wife Tashfeen Malik, the couple who killed 14 people at an office party for Farook’s coworkers in the county health department on December 2.

Authorities say the couple embraced radical Islam before they met online in 2013 and married previous year.

Divers searched a lake in San Bernardino looking for possible evidence in last week’s terrorist attack.

According to Fox News, authorities believe Marquez legally purchased the guns for an attack he and Farook were planning to carry out in 2012. According to ABC News, Marquez told FBI investigators that he and Farook plotted a terror attack in 2012, but called off the plans after a series of terror-related arrests in other cities.

And as authorities comb through evidence five days after a massacre that President Barack Obama and law enforcement officials call an act of terrorism, there’s another key question looming over the investigation: Could anything have been done to foil the plot? The officials said that they are still trying to retrieve data from the devices.

Enrique Marquez, friend of San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook, spoke to KTLA on April 2, 2015.

The couple, who officials said became radicalised some years ago, were both killed in a shoot-out with police hours after the attack.

Bowdich said he would not discuss the “specific evidence we’re looking for”, but said it was essentially “anything that had to do with this particular crime”.

“We also believe they were inspired by foreign terrorist organizations”, he added.

WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. government appears not to have picked up on extremist messages exchanged during the online courtship two years ago between the American-born man accused in the California shootings and his then-fiancée in Pakistan, federal officials told Congress during closed-door briefings on Capitol Hill on Thursday.

NY representative Peter King, a senior Republican member of the House Intelligence Committee, emerged from the session calling for “more surveillance in the Muslim community here in the United States”.

“I don’t think we know yet enough to say these were apparent without the advantage of hindsight”, Schiff said. “My world is upside down”, she said through tears, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Marquez, whose security guard license in California expired previous year, had worked at Wal-Mart since May, but has since been fired, spokesman Brian Nick said. Another federal law enforcement source said Marquez and Farook had plotted some sort of attack around 2012 but abandoned it.