Republican slams ‘unacceptable’ vetting for San Bernardino shooter’s visa

Malik and Farook died in a shootout with the police after the attack on December 2, which killed 14 people and wounded 22. Marquez answered, “He was the shooter”. His short hair flopped over his forehead, there was stubble on his face, and the pockets of his black trousers were turned out.

Wearing handcuffs and beige T-shirt, Marquez appeared in federal court in Riverside, California for a brief hearing on Thursday.

Marquez, a former licensed security guard, was working at a Riverside bar at the time of the shooting and is not alleged to have had a role in the attack. However, he said, no additional materials were provided and the application was still approved.

Enrique Marquez, 24, has been charged with multiple counts of aiding and conspiring with terrorists for allegedly supplying guns to the San Bernardino shooters earlier this month, The New York Times reports.

The FBI affidavit provided more details on how investigators believe Farook and his wife’s rampage unfolded. “This was a conversation with a person that was capable and had the capacity and the intent to commit mass murder”.

United States immigration officials failed to obtain required proof from San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik that she had met her USA citizen fiancé in person, but granted her a spousal visa anyway, a Republican congressman said on Saturday.

Marquez: Yeah. And then he [unintelligible]. After the phone call Marquez was admitted to the UCLA-Harbor Medical Center’s psychiatric ward.

Syed Rizwan Farook and Enrique Marquez met as teenagers in a corner of America that could have been anywhere – clipped lawns, modest ranch-style homes, driveways stacked with cars.

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. In addition, the men planned an attack on a section of the 91 Freeway in California that also included pipe bombs and automatic weapons. Marquez would shoot from a nearby hillside, targeting police, as Farook fired at drivers from the road.

He bought a Smith and Wesson M&P-15 Sport rifle in November 2011 and a DPMS model A-15 rifle in February 2012, each costing about $750, according to the affidavit.

Marquez: The (expletive) (expletive) used my gun in the shooting.

The FBI said Marquez signed a statement each day waiving his right to a lawyer.

The FBI has said Farook and Malik, 29, were radicalized before they met online in 2013, but the court documents show Farook had turned down the path to violent plots much earlier.

“Involved in terrorist plots, drugs, antisocial behavior, marriage, might go to prison for fraud, etc”, he said of himself on the social media site. Neighbors said they were surprised to learn he had been married, having never seen him with a woman.