Federal Bureau of Investigation searches lake in shooting inquiry

FBI investigators who are probing the San Bernardino shooting are taking a new look at Kabir, the two officials said.

The FBI says the husband-and-wife team behind the San Bernardino attacks had developed extremist views before they even met.

While they spoke with reporters, they also said they believe Marquez’s marriage was a sham. “That’s why we’re working so hard to understand it”, Comey replied.

Meanwhile, investigators were also intensely focusing on the activities of Enrique Marquez, who they said supplied the assault-style weapons to Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, the couple who carried out the massacre and were killed in a police shootout.

When asked by the Senate panel whether a terrorist operative or group arranged the couple’s marriage, Comey stated: “I don’t know the answer to that yet”. “This woman was obviously radicalized years ago, and she got through the system”.

Malik, who immigrated to the US from Pakistan in 2014 on a fiancée visa, tried in vain to create relationships with a number of organizations, likely including Al Qaeda’s Syria-based official affiliate, the Nusrah Front, a government source told Reuters.

Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said Malik was subjected to an in-person interview during the application process for a visa.

He is cooperating with the FBI, but investigators are still trying to corroborate the information he has provided, including details of the alleged 2012 plot. She later checked herself into the hospital.

The State Department has defended its background check on Malik. Relatives of 31-year-old Tin Thanh Nguyen wailed over her casket and draped themselves atop it. Services also were held for Damian Meins, a 58-year-old married father of two, and Isaac Amanios, a 60-year-old married father of three.

Past plot with former neighbor?

That year, four people in Riverside – the same town where Marquez and Farook dwelt – were detained and convicted of terrorism.

But the more that’s revealed about Marquez, the more puzzling it is for those who knew him. He has not been charged with any crime.

The 2012 probe happened in Riverside, California, not far from San Bernardino.

FBI investigators have pieced together more clues in the lives of Syed Rizwan Farook, a US-born Muslim, and his Pakistani immigrant wife Tashfeen Malik, in an effort to understand why they carried out the mass shooting at a Christmas work party in southern California that killed 14 people and wounded 21 others.

Federal Bureau of Investigation divers have been involved in the operation two miles from the scene of the massacre in San Bernardino.

A federal investigation found that Marquez purchased the two AR-15 assault rifles that were used by Farook and Malik, an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said Monday.

“We have leads to indicate (Farook and Malick) were in the area at some point”, Bowdich said.

The drive could hold evidence on other attacks the couple was possibly planning.