The group's declaration, in an online radio broadcast, came three canicule afterwards U.S.-born Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his wife Tashfeen Malik, 29, a built-in of Pakistan, agitated out the advance on a anniversary affair for civilian agents in San Bernardino, about 60 afar (100 km) east of Los Angeles.
The two died hours afterwards in a shootout with police.
U.S. government sources accept said Malik and her bedmate may accept been aggressive by Islamic State, but there was no affirmation the advance was directed by the active accumulation or that the alignment even knew who they were. The affair the brace attacked was for workers in the aforementioned bounded government bureau that active Farook.
If Wednesday's accumulation cutting proves to accept been the plan of humans aggressive by Islamist militants, as board now suspect, it would mark the deadliest such advance in the United States back Sept. 11, 2001.
Two indigenous Chechen brothers aggressive by al Qaeda dead three humans and afflicted 264 in a bombing advance on the Boston Marathon in April 2013.
"Two followers of Islamic State attacked several canicule ago a centermost in San Bernadino in California," the group's circadian online radio advertisement al-Bayan said on Saturday.
An English-language adaptation of the advertisement was afterwards appear calling the attackers "soldiers" of Islamic State, rather than "followers" as in the aboriginal Arabic version. It was cryptic if the English adaptation was claiming them as members, or why there was an inconsistency.
The advertisement came a day afterwards Facebook accepted that comments praising Islamic State were acquaint about the time of the accumulation cutting to an annual on the amusing media website accustomed by Malik beneath an alias.
However, it was ambiguous whether the comments were acquaint by Malik herself or anyone with admission to her page.
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
"There was a agreement of allegiance," David Bowdich, abettor administrator of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Los Angeles office, told a account appointment about a appear adherence agreement acquaint on Facebook by Malik on the day of the attack.
A Facebook Inc agent said the contour in catechism was removed by the aggregation on Thursday for actionable its association standards barring advance or acclaim for "acts of terror." He beneath to busy on the material.
CNN and added account media outlets appear the Facebook posts on Malik's page included a agreement of adherence to Islamic State baton Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
"We are now investigating these alarming acts as an act of terrorism," Bowdich told reporters.
He said the FBI hoped assay of abstracts retrieved from two burst cellphones and added cyberbanking accessories bedeviled in the analysis would advance to a motive for the attack.
The brace had two assault-style rifles, two semi-automatic handguns, 6,100 circuit of armament and 12 aqueduct bombs in their home or with them if they were killed, admiral said. Bowdich said they may accept been planning an added attack.
The advance prompted the New York Times to run its aboriginal front-page beat back 1920, adage it was "a moral abuse and a civic disgrace" that the array of accoutrements acclimated in the advance were so readily available.
"These are weapons of war, almost adapted and advisedly marketed as accoutrement of blowing vigilantism and even insurrection," the bi-weekly said.
Speaking to reporters in Washington on Friday, FBI Administrator James Comey said the analysis acicular to "radicalization of the killers and of abeyant afflatus by adopted agitator organizations."
But no affirmation has been baldheaded yet suggesting the killers were "part of an organized beyond group, or anatomy allotment of a cell," Comey said.
Citing an bearding federal law administration official, the Los Angeles Times appear backward on Friday that Farook had "some kind" of acquaintance with humans from the Nusra Front and the abolitionist Shabab accumulation in Somalia. But the attributes of that acquaintance and with whom was unclear, the Times said.
OBAMA TOUTS NATIONAL RESILIENCE
President Barack Obama vowed on Saturday in his account radio abode that federal board would acquisition out what motivated the affiliated brace to attack.
"We are strong. And we are resilient. And we will not be terrorized," Obama said.
Farook ancestors attorneys, captivation a account appointment in Los Angeles on Friday, denied there was any affirmation that either the bedmate or wife harbored agitator views.
She batten torn English and her primary accent was Urdu, he said, adding, "She was actual conservative." They said Farook, too, abundantly kept to himself, had few accompany and said co-workers sometimes fabricated fun of his beard.
Investigators are searching into a address that Farook had an altercation with a accessory who denounced the "inherent dangers of Islam" above-mentioned to the shooting, a U.S. government antecedent said.
Pakistani intelligence admiral accept contacted Malik's ancestors in her citizenry as allotment of the investigation, a ancestors affiliate said.
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