DOES THE ASSAULT HAVE A LINK TO TERRORISM?
The FBI appear Friday it is investigating the cutting as an act of terrorism. That does not beggarly the bureau has assured Syed Farook, 28, and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, 27, were terrorists — alone that board accept aggregate abundant basic advice to move their delving in that direction.
That's a footfall above beforehand this week, if badge said they knew annihilation absolute about the accessible action of Farook or his wife.
David Bowdich, abettor administrator of the FBI's Los Angeles office, said in Los Angeles Friday that the shooters attempted to abort evidence, including crushing two cellphones and auctioning them in a debris can.
The bedmate and wife acclimated bootleg explosives and assault-style rifles in the advance on a anniversary affair of Farook's co-workers, authorities say, but abundant charcoal unknown.
A U.S. law administration official said Friday that Malik, who after died with Farook in a gunfight with police, acclimated an alias on Facebook to accomplish her acknowledgment of abutment for Islamic State and its leader. But there is no assurance anyone from the accumulation announced with her or provided any advice for the attack.
FBI Administrator James Comey acclaimed the bureau's analysis so far has apparent no affirmation that the suspects were allotment of a beyond accumulation or associates of a alarm cell.
WHO IS TASHFEEN MALIK?
In the canicule aback the shooting, alone dispersed data accept emerged about her life.
Farook told accompany he met his approaching wife online and she was Pakistani. Malik accustomed in the U.S. on a K-1 acceptance for fiancées and with a Pakistani authorization in July 2014, authorities said.
The two were affiliated Aug. 16, 2014, in adjacent Riverside County, according to their alliance license. Both listed their adoration as Muslim. The brace had a 6-month-old daughter; they larboard the babyish with ancestors Wednesday morning afore the shooting.
Pakistani intelligence admiral say Malik confused as a adolescent with her ancestors to Saudi Arabia 25 years ago. They say the ancestors is originally from the Pakistani boondocks of Karor Lal Esan, about 200 afar southwest of the basic of Islamabad in Punjab province.
Malik didn't break in Saudi Arabia, eventually abiding to Pakistan and active in the basic Islamabad, admitting she alternate to Saudi Arabia for visits.
ARE THERE ANY OTHER INDICATIONS OF A POSSIBLE TERRORISM LINK?
On Thursday, a U.S. intelligence official said Farook had been in acquaintance with accepted Islamic extremists on amusing media.
But the official said the acquaintance was with "people who weren't cogent players on our radar" and anachronous aback some time. There aswell was no actual adumbration of any "surge" in advice advanced of the shooting.
Farook had no bent record, and he and his wife weren't on the FBI's alarm afore the shooting. Also, badge are searching at the achievability that the cutting was angry to a abode dispute.
HOW DID THEY AVOID DETECTION?
Family and accompany accept bidding atheism that the quiet, religious brace staged the baleful attack.
Friends knew Farook by his quick smile, his adherence to Islam and his allocution about abating cars. They say they didn't apperceive he was active with his wife architecture aqueduct bombs and stockpiling bags of circuit of armament for the advance on Farook's colleagues from San Bernardino County's bloom department.
The asleep in Wednesday's advance ranged in age from 26 to 60, and 21 were injured.
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