Terrorist pal’s 911 call: Attacker ‘used my gun’

But Farook and his wife would later use them in the San Bernardino shootings.

The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee on Saturday said US officials “sloppily approved” the visa application of Tashfeen Malik, one of the shooters in the massacre in San Bernardino, California, that left 14 people dead.

The court records included a partial transcript of a 911 call Marquez made in the hours after the San Bernardino shootings. In addition to the terrorism charge, Marquez faces a count of lying on gun purchase forms to hide that he was really buying them for Farook, and one of defrauding the immigration system by entering into a sham marriage with a Russian immigrant.

Killed in the December 2 shooting were: Shannon Johnson, 45, of Los Angeles, 45; Tin Nguyen, 31, of Santa Ana; Sierra Clayborn, 27, of Moreno Valley; Yvette Velasco, 27, of Fontana; Aurora Godoy, 26, of San Jacinto; Damian Meins, 58, of Riverside; Robert Adams, 40, of Yucaipa; Isaac Amanios, 60, of Fontana; Bennetta Bet-Badal, 46, of Rialto; Harry Bowman, 46, of Upland; Juan Espinoza, 50, of Highland; Larry Kaufman, 42, of Rialto; Nicholas Thalasinos, 52, of Colton; and Michael Wetzel, 37, of Lake Arrowhead.

Mr Marquez told investigators that the plan was first to attack either the cafeteria or the library at Riverside Community College, where both he and Farook had been students.

But prosecutors said he was linked to the killings by the guns and explosive materials he bought years earlier.

“Marquez conspired with Farook to commit vicious attacks”, the USA attorney for the central district of California, Ms Eileen Decker, said in a statement.

Alternatively, there was the rush-hour highway plan, which was to begin with a series of pipe bomb explosions to bring traffic to a standstill.

Discussing a period of time in 2011, Agent Anderson wrote, [pullquote]”Marquez spent most of his time at Farook’s residence, where he read, listened to lectures and watched videos involving radical Islamic content”, including videos from the Shabab, the Al Qaeda affiliate in Somalia.[/pullquote] They looked at Inspire, the official magazine of Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen – Mr. Farook even spoke of going to that country to join the group – and read the works of clerics like Abdullah Azzam, a founder of Al Qaeda, who was killed in 1989.

Marquez allegedly told investigators their plan was to drop pipe bombs from the second floor of the cafeteria, then escape and mount another attack elsewhere on campus.

– 2005 – Marquez and his family move next door to the Farooks, and Syed Rizwan Farook introduces him to Islam. He was then referred to the psychiatric ward and placed on an involuntary hold, ABC News said.

Marquez’s public defender declined to comment on the charges filed this week. They would toss pipe bombs into traffic, disabling vehicles with the explosions, then shoot into the trapped cars, Marquez allegedly told investigators. Marquez would shoot from a nearby hillside, targeting police, as Farook fired at drivers from the road.

Marquez claims he stopped plotting the attacks with Farook in 2012 for several reasons, including the arrest of three men in the area for suspected terrorist plotting in November 2012.

Authorities still are trying to learn more about whom the killers interacted with, how they hatched and carried out the plot and why. The call indicates the apparently distraught Marquez was also considering suicide.