San Bernardino Shooter Pledged Allegiance To ISIS

An expert says the revelation that one of the California attackers pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group on Facebook suggests the woman was inspired by IS ideology but wasn’t necessarily in direct touch with the group.

The Aamaq news agency, which supports ISIS, said on its website on Friday that followers of the Islamist militant group had carried out Wednesday’s attack.

Late afternoon on Friday, FBI Director James Comey said, “This is now a federal terrorism investigation”, adding “We are trying to understand motives and details of their lives”.

He said authorities were continuing to investigate the case to understand the motivations of the pair and whether they were planning more attacks.

Miller said his wife interviewed the couple and he did not know them well. However, it was uncertain whether the comments were posted by Malik herself or someone with access to her page. Facebook identified the post and removed the entire profile, which a spokeswoman said violated the company’s community standards.

Bowdich alluded to the Facebook post in the press conference, but declined to elaborate on it.

USA investigators are evaluating evidence that Malik, a Pakistani native who had been living in Saudi Arabia when she married Farook, had pledged allegiance to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, two U.S. officials told Reuters. The shootings and bombings killed 130 people and prompted France, Germany and the U.K.to step up the offensive against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. “There is no indication that they are part of a network”.

Even her family by marriage has a hard time describing the female suspect in Wednesday’s shooting in San Bernardino, California, that killed 14 people. It’s unclear who called the shots in the couple’s home.

They also portrayed Malik as a “caring” and “typical” housewife.

Investigators are looking into a report that Farook had an argument with a co-worker who denounced the “inherent dangers of Islam” before the shooting, a USA government source said. He says that means different tools are needed to prevent those types of attacks. The Muslim couple died hours later in a fierce gunbattle with police.

Abuershaid and fellow attorney David Chesley said Farook had apparently been teased by colleagues at the county health department, where he had worked as an inspector, over the beard he grew.

The landlord later asked media to leave the home. “Especially because they were happily married, they had a lovely six-month-old daughter”, Farook’s sister Saira Khan told CBS News.

Farook was born in the U.S., Burguan said, and had been working with the county for five years. A person close to the Saudi government said Malik eventually returned to Pakistan.

But the official said there was no sign that anyone affiliated with the Islamic State communicated back with her, and there was no evidence of any operational instructions being conveyed to her.

Comey said that the contacts Farook and Malik had with individuals under FBI investigation didn’t raise flags at the bureau, which had no information in its databases about the two killers.