Friend Who Gave Guns To San Bernardino Shooters Ditched Earlier Plot

As FBI investigators return to search a San Bernardino lake today for clues into last week’s deadly shooting, funerals continue for some of the 14 victims who lost their lives during the massacre in Southern California’s Inland Empire.

Federal Bureau of Investigation agents pack up diving gear after searching in the water at Seccombe Lake Park, after last week’s shooting in San Bernardino, California, yesterday. David Bowdich, assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles field office, said the Bureau is investigating a lead that the suspects visited the lake on the day of the shooting.

Meanwhile, more details emerged about the investigation into married couple Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik.

They were both killed hours later in a shootout with police. Officials declined to say what divers were looking for.

The FBI said last week that Malik posted a pledge of allegiance to Islamic State on Facebook just before the shooting rampage.

Marquez and Farook “have been plotting an precise assault” that yr, together with shopping for weapons, however turned apprehensive and shelved the plan as a result of of regulation enforcement exercise and arrests within the space, stated Idaho Sen.

A source cautioned the Times, though, that school photos found on a phone belonging to Farook may have been taken as part of Farook’s job as a county health inspector, a job that included inspecting school cafeterias.

The official has been briefed on the investigation but isn’t authorized to speak publicly.

When asked about Farook, she said her son was friends with him and “nothing more”.

The militants Malik, 29, tried to contact may have turned her down due to fears that she was actually working with law enforcement, Reuters’ sources said. Marquez was married to a woman who appears to be a relative of Tatiana Farook, the wife of Syed’s brother Raheel, according to county records. Another federal government source previously told The Times that Farook may have been considering a separate terror plot in 2011 or 2012, around the same time Marquez obtained the guns.

Marquez hasn’t been charged with a crime and has been cooperating with authorities.

“It’s a small percentage, but to me, the only way you find out about it in advance is having sources and informers on the ground, having constant surveillance”.

“Everyone’s asking the same questions about how it is that law enforcement didn’t know, or intelligence officials didn’t know – that they could have flown under the radar and nothing gave an indication that they were a threat”, said Rep. Jim Langevin, a Rhode island Democrat and member of the House Homeland Security Committee, according to the Associated Press. He said these people saw activity around the garage that they thought was suspicious.

“In terms of our foreign intelligence gathering, in terms of our electronic surveillance, I don’t know yet that there was something that was in one of our holdings that we should have been aware of and we weren’t”, Schiff said.