Investigators searching San Bernardino lake for possible evidence

Islamic militant groups ignored contact attempts from the wife involved in the massacre, Pakistan-born Tashfeen Malik, in the months before she and her husband killed 14 people at a California holiday party probably, because they feared getting caught in a USA law enforcement sting, US government sources said on Thursday.

Marquez’s stepfather, Gustavo Ramirez, said in a recent interview outside his family’s home that he was stunned by the claim that his stepson had purchased firearms for Farook and his wife.

FBI Director James Comey told a Senate hearing Wednesday the agency has found online discussions about jihad between Farook and Malik from late 2013, before they began dating.

Malik reportedly pledged allegiance to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi in a Facebook posting shortly after the San Bernardino shootings. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat and member of the committee.

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Revelations that the San Bernardino attackers were radicalised years earlier, before Islamic State was created and before they met, has raised questions about how they slipped under the security radar. He did not say what changes were being considered.

At a briefing for reporters Wednesday, Kirby said, “It’s too soon to know what, if anything, might have been missed in the screening process”. “I am in such pain that I can not even describe it”, he said.

He said he gave a statement to Saudi intelligence and would not comment further.

RINGO CHIU/AFP/Getty Images FBI divers continue to scrape the bottom of the Seccombe Lake, a small body of water about two miles north of Farook’s former workplace and the target of the shootings, the Inland Regional Center.

The family members of Enrique Marquez, the man linked to the San Bernardino massacre, said they were unaware he was married or that he had converted to Islam.

Law enforcement officials believe Farook and Marquez discussed executing an attack somewhere in the Los Angeles area in 2012, but decided not to do so after four people were arrested in nearby Riverside County in an unrelated terror case. But Marquez wasn’t just Farook and Malik’s gun buyer. The official said it’s unclear what caused them to cancel the plans. As part of our standard procedures, we also confirm that all loan funds are disbursed into a verified United States bank account in the borrower’s name.

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The revelation came as FBI investigators discovered photos of local schools on Farook’s phone, suggesting that the couple may have been targeting those sites as part of a far larger attack than previously known, according to theLos Angeles Times.

The couple, who officials say became radicalised some years ago, were both killed in a shoot-out with police hours after the attack. The officials said that they are still trying to retrieve data from the devices. A second official confirmed that the deposit was for $28,500.

On Saturday, ISIS hailed the shooters as their “supporters”, but the group did not take responsibility for the attack, nor did they say that the couple was part of their network, reports CNN.

He drew comparisons to heightened scrutiny law enforcement placed on Italian-American and Irish-American communities during past investigations of organised crime.