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San Bernardino Mass Shooter Had Islamic State Ties: "She Pledged Allegiance To The ISIS Leader"
"Crises like these are only 'useful' in today's world if they serve someone's geopolitical ends so don't be surprised if the mainstream media soon turns up the San Bernardino equivalent of the forged Syrian passport found in Paris three weeks ago" -- Zero Hedge, 12/2
As CNN reported earlier today, Tashfeen Malik pledged allegiance to ISIS leader Bakr al-Baghdadi, in a Facebook post. Additionally, Reuters reports that Islamic State media now says ISIS follwers carried out the attack.
As attack was happening, investigators believe female attacker Tashfeen Malik posted on FB, pledging allegiance to ISIS leader al-Baghdadi
— CNN NationalSecurity (@NatSecCNN) December 4, 2015
Breaking: investigators find #ISIS link to #sanbernardino shooting, wife pledged allegiance to #albaghdadi on FB during attack - sources
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) December 4, 2015
The posting was apparently made under a different name. Officials have not said how they know it was indeed Malik's account. From The New York Times:
The woman who helped carry out the shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., on Wednesday had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in a Facebook posting, according to federal law enforcement officials.
There’s no evidence the group directed the woman, Tashfeen Malik, and her husband Syed Rizwan Farook, to launch the attacks, which killed 14 and wounded 21, said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is continuing.
“At this point we believe they were more self-radicalized and inspired by the group than actually told to do the shooting,” one of the officials said.
The posting had been removed from the social media site and it’s not clear when federal authorities obtained it.
In the days leading up to the shooting, the couple took several steps to delete their electronic information, in an apparent effort to cover their tracks, officials said. Those efforts have led authorities to believe that the shooting was premeditated.
In what some on social media have dubbed "journalistic malpractice," MSNBC is now rumaging through Farook and Malik's home on live television.
This is journalistic malpractice. pic.twitter.com/iYqglTbH8Y
— Adam Goldstein (@A_H_Goldstein) December 4, 2015
And it wasn't just MSNBC, after the landlord pried open the door, the media stormed the house. Here are some screenshots Mashable grabbed which show that not even the couple's six month-old baby's crib was off limits:
And here's a clip that will likely live in media infamy:
This is what rock bottom of journalism looks like
#SanBernadino pic.twitter.com/gzS6zPZBxb
— Maxim Eristavi (@MaximEristavi) December 4, 2015
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Rice and spicy chicken.
That’s what Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik served to 200 guests gathered to celebrate the couple’s wedding at a local mosque in 2013.
Two years later, the pair stormed a San Bernardino County employee holiday party, opening fire with two assault rifles. 14 people were killed, and nearly two dozen were wounded. Farook and Malik died in a subsequent shootout with police.
In the aftermath of the carnage, we took stock of what authorities recovered from the couple’s vehicle and residence.
Found in the suspects' home:
- 2,500 .223 rounds
- A “bomb lab” with “hundreds" of tools that could be used to make IEDs.
- 2,000 9mm rounds
- 12 pipe bombs
Found in the black SUV:
- 1,400 .223 rounds
- 200 9mm rounds
We also predicted that a link to terrorism would be established in relatively short order. “At the end of the day, two people opening fire with assault rifles on a holiday party seems pretty 'terrifying' to us regardless of what inspired the shooters, but remember, crises like these are only "useful" in today's world if they serve someone's geopolitical ends so don't be surprised if the mainstream media soon turns up the San Bernardino equivalent of the forged Syrian passport found in Paris three weeks ago,” we wrote.
Sure enough, just hours later, CNN reported that Farook had “apparently been radicalized.” NBC followed up shortly thereafter, citing FBI sources as saying that Farook had been in contact with “overseas individuals.” Subsequent reports suggested Farook communicated with people who were on the bureau's radar in connection with a terrorism investigation. Officials also said the contact was with "people who weren't significant players," and was dated. There was no documentation of any "surge" in communication prior to the shooting.
So if we buy all of this (and we’re not necessarily saying you should, at least not hook, line, and sinker), then the next question becomes this: what was Farook’s road to radicalization?
Born in Chicago to Pakistani immigrants, “the family moved to Riverside, where his father worked as a truck driver and his mother as a clerk at Kaiser Permanente," The LA Times recounts. He was a member of his high school Muslim club and earned a bachelor’s degree in environmental health from Cal State San Bernardino in 2010. The Times also notes that Farook’s “older brother, Syed Raheel joined the Navy immediately after high school, served from 2003 to 2007, and was awarded two medals for service in the ‘Global War on Terrorism.’” Oh, the irony.
We also know he visited Saudi Arabia for Hajj where he married Malik, a Pakistani native who was then living with family in the kingdom. Farook described himself as Sunni on at least one dating site and as we put it on Thursday, “when it comes to radicalizing Sunni Muslims, the Saudis and their brand of puritanical Wahhabism are second to none.”
On Friday, we get a bit more in the way of color from Farook's sister Saira Khan who spoke to CBS. "I can never imagine my brother or my sister-in-law doing something like this. Especially because they were happily married, they had a beautiful 6-month-old daughter. It's just mind boggling why they would do something like this," she said. "It makes us very upset and angry that how could you leave a 6-month-old daughter," her husband added.
Of course no one wants to believe that they could have so badly misjudged a relative, friend, or co-worker, so predictably, Malik is going to take the blame on this one. Here's what Christian Nwadike - a coworker who CBS says "sat only feet" from Farook for four years - had to say:
CBS: "Do you believe that he was radicalized?" Begnaud asked him.
Nwadike: "Yes, by the wife, I think he married a terrorist," Nwadike said.
CBS: "He married a terrorist?"
Nwadike: "Yes, he was set up through that marriage."
Here's an ad Farook posted on another dating website, called "BestMuslim.com":
Yes, "other small things should not pose that much of a problem". "Small things" like a deep-seated desire to go on a murderous rampage.
Obviously, this is all speculation. While it's certainly possible that Farook was influenced by Malik, it's just as possible that the relationship worked in the opposite direction and furthermore, who's to say they weren't both radicalized from the start and thus formed a bond based on a mutual affinity for extremism?
Unfortunately, getting to the bottom of this will be exceptionally difficult because the US isn't providing Pakistan with the information Islamabad needs to assist and even if Washington does decide to share intelligence, the FIA says its sytems are too antiquated to help. From NBC:
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source said details sent through by the U.S. were scant so far but confirmed that "the work has started."
The official added that until Pakistani officials had "a picture, or an ID card number, or a passport number, we can't follow any leads."
A senior member of the Federal Investigation Agency, which is Pakistan's FBI, said that it would not be "an easy search" for authorities. The source added: "We will need more data to get more data, if only because our systems are not that sophisticated."
So much for the billions of taxpayer dollars Washington has funneled to Pakistan for "counter-terrorism" purposes.
An attorney for the shooters' family says "a lot of things don't make sense," including the fact that "no one has ever seen Farook with a pipebomb," and Malik "was maybe 90 pounds" and thus incapable of carrying an assault rifle. "Malik was never involved in the shooting," they contend. Pressed by CNN on whether the legal team will actually try to contend that the couple in fact did not commit the crime, the lawyers were non-committal.
Given the breaking news noted above, this could get very interesting in the days and weeks ahead.
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Who cares? So you can buy guns and ammo. It's the way we want to keep the good ol USofA. And compared to the deaths yesterday from tobacco and deaths yesterday from car accidents, the deaths in SanBernardino are just minor collateral damage. Move on. Another shooing somewhere else this week. Life's grand.
SO THE US IS GETTING FINGERED ALONG WITH TURKEY WITH AN ISIL OIL OPERATION AND SUDDENLY ALL HELL BREAKS LOSE. SO NOW U.S. HAS CAUSE TO GO INTO SYRIA WITH BOOTS ON THE GROUND TO ROOT OUT EVIL. AM I WRONG???????????
AND FURTHER ISIS IS NOW LEGIT BECAUSE THEY DID IT HERE AND WE MUST FEEL SORRY FOR THE REFUGEES AND LET THEM IN
Talk about your magical lies; "she pledged allegiance to Obama", the real ISIS leader? See you Liberals what you get and you will get much more real soon...drink the Kool-aid.
Ah ... the divide part of "divide and conquer" is working very nicely.
Did anyone ever consider the sales skills required to "radicalize" someone like this? It has to be much greater than selling them a used car, life insurance, encyclopedias, or a burial plot.
she's a good patriotic american. the usa supports isis. she supports isis. she supports the usa. johnny maccain is already in love with her.
Actually her baby is John McCains...it reportedly has three heads...
If you can't defend it, it's not yours. It's theirs.
In a real investigation with "bombs"; the landlord would not allow anyone in accept the police or FBI types; NEVER the media so soon...NEVER NEVER NEVER!!!
Correct, and given the circumstances, I would assume every inch of this place would have been dusted for prints before it was let open again. Unless, they didn't want fingerprints or other evidence left behind...
There would of been signs posted all over this place. DO NOT ENTER PART OF CRIME SCENE.......
Someone seems to be upset about the media accepting an invitation to tour the apartment.
The media went into the site in Benghazi and reported that the US had not secured the area for investigation. The media did a better job of finding what was there and hooking up with a muslim brotherhood boss who was still hanging out freely in coffee shops more than a month later. The journalists did a better job than .gov because the journalists wanted to get to the facts.
No problem here with the media doing their jobs.
I am very sorry to say, but in the US a good journalist is a dead
journalist!
It never occurred to the landlord that this is a crime scene?
It had probably been cleared by LE and turned back over to him to clean up.
Guessing, but it does not have to take all that long if there were enough investigators working the scene. I don't see the yellow crime scene tape, so LE must have finished.
Completely wrong, they would have kept it closed as part of a crime scene. Especially in this case!
How long was the house closed for sandy hook? Wasn't it destroyed along with school?
The house at Sandy Hook was much larger and the owner was dead. This apartment has to be much smaller than the Lanza house and is investment property for a living owner. Different situation. If LE had dragged out their crime scene investigation, it could have ruined the investment value of the unit and the rest of the property. LE would have been interested in going through that apartment as quickly and thoroughly as possible in order to identify and locate other possible threats.
Don't blame the landlord, shouldn't there have been do not enter signs posted by law enforcement all over this place?
If it was a crime scene the keystone cops should have declared it as such, they did not, because there was not crime, just a badly acted show...
Those guns were originally sold to a police dept. in Calif. This is a true statement! Exactly how the guns got into this guy's possession is subject to some debate.
Apparently in Calif. when a gun is sold both parties have to fill out a form so law enforcement has a record of who bought and who sold. Apparently law enforcement is exempt from this law so it may never be known who sold him the guns. You will be hearing more about this in the future. I think this is too big to be covered up and Carly Fiorina has made this information public.
Yeah muslims, but not jews, are vile fundamentalists.
If yiu just dont pay attention to what the israelis and settlers do
What the Quran-bashers Don’t Want You to Know About the Bible
http://www.loonwatch.com/2011/03/what-the-quran-bashers-dont-want-you-to...
God Loves the Smell of Burning Flesh: Human Sacrifice in the Bible
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/crossexamined/2014/07/god-loves-the-smell-o...
How Israel protects its settlers who burn Palestinian children alive
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/how-israel-protects-it...
The Doctrine of “Superior People”
The Bond between Israel and World Zionism
http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/09/the-doctrine-of-superior-people/
Israeli Discrimination Against Non-Jews Is Carefully Codified in State of Israel's Laws By Dr. Israel Shahak
http://www.wrmea.org/1998-january-february/other-voices-israeli-discrimi...
When Israel Is Mighty
http://youtu.be/YSy6ENVAJlY
Deuteronomy 7New International Version (NIV)
Driving Out the Nations
7 When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you— 2 and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally.[a] Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy. 3 Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, 4 for they will turn your children away from following me to serve other gods, and the Lord’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you. 5 This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles[b] and burn their idols in the fire. 6 For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.
7 The Lord did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. 8 But it was because the Lord loved you and kept the oath he swore to your ancestors that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments. 10 But
those who hate him he will repay to their face by destruction;
he will not be slow to repay to their face those who hate him.
11 Therefore, take care to follow the commands, decrees and laws I give you today.
12 If you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the Lord your God will keep his covenant of love with you, as he swore to your ancestors. 13 He will love you and bless you and increase your numbers. He will bless the fruit of your womb, the crops of your land—your grain, new wine and olive oil—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you. 14 You will be blessed more than any other people; none of your men or women will be childless, nor will any of your livestock be without young. 15 The Lord will keep you free from every disease. He will not inflict on you the horrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but he will inflict them on all who hate you. 16 You must destroy all the peoples the Lord your God gives over to you. Do not look on them with pity and do not serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
17 You may say to yourselves, “These nations are stronger than we are. How can we drive them out?” 18 But do not be afraid of them; remember well what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt. 19 You saw with your own eyes the great trials, the signs and wonders, the mighty hand and outstretched arm, with which the Lord your God brought you out. The Lord your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear. 20 Moreover, the Lord your God will send the hornet among them until even the survivors who hide from you have perished. 21 Do not be terrified by them, for the Lord your God, who is among you, is a great and awesome God. 22 The Lord your God will drive out those nations before you, little by little. You will not be allowed to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals will multiply around you. 23 But the Lord your God will deliver them over to you, throwing them into great confusion until they are destroyed. 24 He will give their kings into your hand, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand up against you; you will destroy them. 25 The images of their gods you are to burn in the fire. Do not covet the silver and gold on them, and do not take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it, for it is detestable to the Lord your God. 26 Do not bring a detestable thing into your house or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. Regard it as vile and utterly detest it, for it is set apart for destruction.
Footnotes:
Deuteronomy 7:2 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them; also in verse 26.
Deuteronomy 7:5 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah; here and elsewhere in Deuteronomy
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I sure am glad the NSA is monitoring social media so that they can prevent these acts of terrorism... or maybe they're just looking at titties, who knows.
They'll just have to lock it down a little tighter, won't they?
"I'm too smart to be taken in by propaganda", said the average American for the past 100 years.
The First Holocaust: Jewish fund raising campaigns with Holocaust claims during and after World War One.
http://vho.org/dl/ENG/tfh.pdf
160 page document! How about the Cliff Notes.
How about you just read a book for a change and stop taking in predigested thinking?
ARE YOU GOYIM NOT ENTERTAINED???
Us goyim are scared. Save us, Mr. National Security State!
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun, is a good guy with a gun.
Brilliant! NOTE - To all you "good guys" shooting the bad guys... be sure to wear a white hat so the rest of the "good guys" don't mistake you for a bad guy and shoot you too.
Remember the good old days when it was a war between the Jews (Israel) and the Arab nations?
The saying at the time was something like " The Jews and the Muslims should settle their differences in a Christian way" Guess that one's out the window....today.
Remember all the meetings with Israels PM and President Carter at Camp David?
Yep,,, the good old days when Americans were inbetween bombing the shit out of defensless nations.
Anybody remember the USS Liberty?
Meanwhile in Cairo a miscellaneous few individuals tossed Molotov cocktails into a crowded dance club. 16 incinerated, countless others badly burned, dozens with serious injuries. All because these tools got bounced, or weren't allowed past the Velvet Rope.
It ain't about radicalization. It's about angry people. This festering pile we call Humanity is fucking sick of each others' shit.
I can remember the days back when they used to put some effort into their propaganda.
Now it's just these young retards with their paint-by-number infantile tripe that a 3 year old can see through.
Back when I was a kid you could hardly recognize propaganda from reality. It's like they don't even try anymore.
Terrorism is only going to get worse from now.
The ELITE win again.
Has even ONE witness described seeing a tiny 90 lb woman , firing an "assault" rifle . State property didn't have security cameras?? Hmmm. No camera footage around the Pentagon on a specific day either.
I think I am responsible for this since I was continually posting for 2 weeks how there wasn't any domestic incident from the big bad terrorists for 14 years and change showing how much bullshit the whole thing is and sure enough, not long after we get this. Makes me think some intelligence folk monitor this site, realized their whole bullshit terror plan (aka operation gladio 2.0) and ISIS boogeyman crap was easy to see through so they figured they needed to get some domestic incidents going just in case the sheeple were starting to wonder why nobody hits them on domestic soil.
That all these journalists went into the house I think adds to the bullshit nature of this because I don't see that happening if this were legit. I also like the covenience of the facebook post being deleted along with all this other alleged evidence being gone and there are serious issues with the live newsfeeds of the alleged chase that were shown which seem to have been impossible to have happened. When I see people lie or see stuff that doesn't add up then I put in doubt what has happened.
It'd be nice if human beings wouldn't be so damn gullible and believe everything that they are told. The media and government could tonight go and say ANYONE has so and so in their house and was going to do so and so act and people would believe it. It's pretty scary to think that those people in their positions of power and influence could go and do that for me or people I know or any other innocent chump minding their own business and that the masses would believe it when it wouldn't be true. Reminds me of Arlington Road.
As for these people, if people they know say they can't believe they'd do something like this or were radicalized terrorists then I am inclined to believe them more than authorities who I know have a clear agenda along with the whole leaving a newborn thing which I really don't see some couple doing even if they are supposed evil terrorists. I understand people can hide things from others but I am of the opinion enough signs and personality traits are given off by people for others to generally know what they are capable of. If I ever went and did something drastic like a mass shooting then people I know would be able to say "yeah, I could see how he'd have done it."
People aren't that good at hiding themselves.
About that "leaving of a newborn" thingy...
They left their child with grandma, not home alone.
If you meant doing something that could end up being fatal to themselves and could cause their child to become an orphan, plenty of people enter the military every year and some re-up.
The husband's sister and brother-in-law are already starting the process to adopt the baby. That child should be well taken care of.
The Adam and Eve of US Jihad
(Sura 9:11) And as she sat admiring her body in the reflecting water, Shaitan appeared to her as a Sheikh.
"Feel this pipe bomb, daughter of Adam. It is long and hard and powerful."
"We are not allowed the things from the Forbidden Warehouse."
Nevertheless, the pipe bomb intrigued her. The Shaitan gave her a Zippo and she set it off, with a loud noise and white smoke. Later, she took one to Adam. He, too, used the Zippo and blew up the pipe bomb. It gave him a sense of immense Power.
"Where did you acquire this, my wife," asked Adam."
"From the Shaitan. It was hard and long, like you, husband."
"It is too late to return it to the Forbidden Warehouse. We must use it on the Infidel, to gain Allah's Forgiveness."
I was sincerely floored when the hoax checklist hit on each and every point. (Again.) I've always despised conspiracy theorists but the evidence presented after each of these shootings is overwhelming and jaw-dropping. It truly is dreamlike to watch these people being interviewed and to look at crime scenes and be able to predict EXACTLY what you will see and hear. These are NOT "theories" and NOT "coincidences". This is bizarre (and occasionally deadly I suppose) stagecrafted propaganda.
FAKE mass shooting Wednesday - Dow up 350 Friday - US is truly one FUCKED up country !
The reporters and police will take better care of all that evidence than the shooter's lawyers will. Hopefully on of the reporters took the baby as well.
I just remembered what the scum celebrity reporters reminded me of as they ransacked that house. You'll remember too if you've ever watched 3rd world TV News. We have arrived. How sick is that.
Obama is a total joke.
We now have a president that responds to terrorism attacks by pushing for the following:
1) Climate change agreement
2) Gun control
3) Criticizing opponents of Syrian refugee acceptance (where potential for terrorist infiltration exists) as being racist and being responsible for causing more terrorism
We are so blessed to have a president like this. Thank you so much for "keeping us safe" (as you have stated repeatedly over the years in your dumbed-down teleprompter-guided speeches).
How many Obunglers does it take to change a light bulb? None, you can suck a dick in the dark.
And Obama please don't forget now to eliminate the ISIS oil facilities after sitting on your hands for 16 months.
And don't forget to cut off the ISIS supply route and ISIS oil transit route at the Turkish border after sitting on your hands for 16 months.
Thanks once again for "keeping us safe". We know how this is all you think about when you wake up every morning, because you such a selfless leader. We are so blessed.
Bullshit. She was 100% vetted by Jeh Johnson, the Muslim Homey - Land Security Director.
Hahahahahahahaha really, can't make this shit up!
"one of the shooting suspects passed the Department of Homeland Security’s “counterterrorism screening as part of her vetting” for a visa. "
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/427990/san-bernardino-shooting-ref...The baby and the mother and anyone related to these terrorists have to be deported. It's the only way to convince potential suicide terrorists that there will be consequences to their action regardless of whether they are alive or dead.
Likewise, for any terrorist outside of the US, termination of their family must be considered as reprisal for their acts..such as the Paris shooting.
Did you think of that all by yourself, or were you quoting Trump?
The attorney is high on Cocaine.
You can see it in his eyes.
What happened to the 3rd person law enforcement said they had arrested and was reported to be either the driver or at least present at the scene?
Obama was hoping they were all white.