California shooters planned attack

His former neighbor, Enrique Marquez Jr., 29, had purchased the two.223-caliber assault rifles that had been used in the massacre. But the said investigators are still trying to establish when, where and by whom they were influenced. Police in San Bernardino said they have found no evidence to support the claim.

They also apparently had been doing target practice in the Los Angeles area, shortly before the mass shootings.

“I believe that we need to do a better job of informing the public at large of what we are seeing, removing some of the mystery about the global terrorist threat and what we are doing about it, and what we are asking the public to do”, he said in the forum with Defence One magazine.

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An agent from the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said on Monday that five guns had been recovered either at the scene or at the suspects’ home.

Maj Gen Mansour Turki, a spokesman for the Saudi Interior Ministry, said via text message on Saturday that Malik had visited the kingdom twice.

The characterisation of the husband and wife team, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, came as FBI investigators were leaning away from the theory that Malik, who declared allegiance to the Islamic State on Facebook around the time of the attack, had led her US-born husband to the violence.

He called the San Bernardino attack “an act of terrorism, created to kill innocent people”. Last year, he traveled to Saudi Arabia, where she lived, and they married.

In an interview with the Italian daily La Stampa, however, Farook s father said his son approved of IS ideology and was fixated on Israel.

The Farook family attorneys describe Malik as a reserved housewife who hewed to traditional behavior.

Luis Sinco/AP Police and emergency vehicles swarm the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, Calif., where the shooters unleashed a December 2 attack.

The source is also cited telling that further evidence of pre-meditation ‘may exist’ with a charge for the SUV rental processing on Farook’s account November 30, two days before the shooting.

John Galletta said Monday that nothing was out of the ordinary about Farook’s behavior, but that he asked a representative why his rifle might be smoking, and was told it was most likely because it was new.

Now the question is: Did the government miss signs that Malik had been radicalized before she was approved for her visa?

In a nationally broadcast speech Sunday night, Obama sought to reassure the nation, insisting “we will prevail”.

On Wednesday afternoon the pair died in a gun battle with cops.

David Bowdich (center), assistant director of the FBI’s Los Angeles office.

Mourners also gathered Monday at San Bernardino County’s Board of Supervisors building to mark the first day about 20,000 county employees returned to work since the shooting. Malik had been living in Pakistan and visiting family in Saudi Arabia before she passed the background check and entered the U.S.in July 2014 with Syed Farook, a US citizen whose family was originally from Pakistan.

The weapons were bought legally in California between 2007 and 2012, authorities said Monday.

All of the victims who made it to a hospital are in stable condition, Dr. Dev Gnanadev said. But Abassi told The Times he barely knew Farook and only exchanged occasional hellos and goodbyes. Their expressions are impossible to read, making it hard at the time to predict that they would become responsible a year and a half later for one of the worst mass shootings in US history in San Bernardino. However, environmental health employees, the targets of the rampage, will remain off for another week.