San Bernardino attacker’s friend charged with supporting terrorists

Investigators said that a clearly distraught Marquez nearly immediately confessed his connection to the crimes to a 911 operator and to his mother, and spent a few days in a hospital psychiatric ward before talking with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

“Shortly thereafter, Farook introduced Marquez to radical Islamic ideology”, according to the documents, which were released Thursday.

Much of the affidavit focuses on the level of planning and preparation that went into attacks Farook and Marquez plotted to carry out in 2012. The two engaged in a methodical process when choosing their targets. Farook and his wife were killed in a police shootout hours after killing 14 people at a holiday luncheon earlier this month.

Initially we were told the Christmas party massacre was the work of a “lone wolf” by the name of Syed Farook. Marquez was known to friends as a hapless dupe, a big fan of this punk rock band, interviewed on local TV news after running to rescue a friend’s dog.

Farook is presented in the affidavit as the force pulling Marquez toward violent extremism. The conspiracy charge against Marquez carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison, and the firearms and visa charges, 10 years each.

“He was weak-minded”, said the employee, who asked not to be named, “maybe he got suckered into something”.

He is more than likely to use a defense that he was brainwashed by Farook. Marquez started watching videos produced by the terrorist organization al-Shabaab and reading al Qaeda’s “Inspire” magazine.

Marquez: The f***ing asshole used my gun in the shooting. Bristow, however, disagreed and stated that while 2011 plans were never carried out, Farook continued with his plan, resulting in the San Bernardino shooting.

Tashfeen Malik is born in Pakistan.

They also had plans to attack a motorway during afternoon rush hour by dropping pipe bombs onto cars and shooting into cars and at law enforcement, the records said. Marquez attended Riverside from the fall of 2009 to the winter term of 2011, while Farook was registered as a student there from 2004 to 2010, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Homeland: No sooner had federal authorities assured the public that there’s “no evidence” the San Bernardino shooters “were part of a terrorist cell” than agents collared one of their Muslim pals as an accomplice in their jihad.

The conversation continues and Marquez, at one point, says: “The f***ing asshole used my gun in the shooting”.

Marquez bought two assault rifles for Farook in 2011 and 2012 so that they could be used in their 2012 plot, he told investigators.

While it is unclear when Marquez and Farook last spoke, investigators pieced together this timeline of Marquez and Farook’s actions on December 2, the day of the attack, which they included in the criminal complaint. It turns out that Enrique Marquez had been spending a lot of time over at his neighbor Farook’s house. “The f-ing asshole used my gun in the shooting”. The affidavit states that the men decided Marquez should purchase the weapons because it would be less suspicious, although Farook gave Marquez money for the weapons.

Enrique Marquez, pictured in a courtroom sketch, appears in federal court in Riverside, Calif., on Thursday.

Marquez, who had worked as a security guard at Walmart, appeared in court and was told to return on Monday for a bail hearing.