His wife and adolescent shooter, Tashfeen Malik, aswell apprenticed adherence to an Islamic State baton in a Facebook posting, two federal law administration admiral said.
The revelations came as the FBI formally appear it was investigating the cutting binge as an act of terrorism.
FBI Administrator James Comey said the assailants showed signs of "radicalization" but that there was no affirmation they were allotment of a beyond agitator network.
Farook and Malik died in a badge shootout Wednesday, several hours afterwards beginning into a anniversary buffet for the San Bernardino Canton Bloom Department and killing 14 people.
As the analysis expands, the law administration antecedent said, agents are aggravating to apprentice added about the couple's contacts in the U.S. and overseas, "especially those in Pakistan," area Farook visited and Malik was born.
One key question, said the official, "is if they had any weapons or alarm training in Pakistan." The antecedent declared "some kind" of associate amid Farook and humans from the Nusra Front and the abolitionist al-Shabab accumulation in Somalia. It's cryptic what blazon of associate or with whom.
Authorities in Pakistan aswell said Friday that they were investigating whether Malik had ties to Islamic active organizations.
Officials cautioned that Malik's Facebook announcement did not beggarly that the active accumulation directed Malik and her bedmate to backpack out the Wednesday attack, and that board anticipate it instead suggests that the brace had become self-radicalized. One of the admiral said the Facebook column was fabricated beneath a altered name and had back been removed.
A Facebook agent accepted that the aggregation took down the contour page that included the column cited by law administration officials. He said the column was apparent a day afterwards the cutting if Facebook advisers conducted a seek of the website for the shooters' names. The company's policy, he said, was to abolish posts that "support or glorify" terrorism. The column had gone up Wednesday about 11 a.m. PST, about the aforementioned time the cutting began, he said. He said Facebook provided the capacity of the column to law enforcement.
Witnesses and badge accept said Farook, a canton accessible bloom worker, had been at the anniversary affair but left, possibly afterwards a altercation with a co-worker, and alternate with Malik to advance the gathering.
That could be construed as abode violence, the law administration antecedent said, acquainted that affirmation and attestant recollections advance that they attack Farook's admiral first. Or, the antecedent said, "after they got away" and were missing for several hours, they ability accept hoped to barrage a antecedent plan for an even beyond strike.
An associate who prayed with Farook at a San Bernardino abbey told the Los Angeles Times that the ballista said he admired his wife because she wore a "niqab," a blind that covered about all of her face.
Nizaam Ali, 23, said Friday he anticipation that Farook admired Malik's niqab because it showed she was religious and wasn't embodying "the avant-garde role of women today, alive and all that."
Ali, a apprentice at California State University, San Bernardino, said he occasionally talked to Farook at Dar al Uloom al Islamiyah of America mosque.
Ali remembered Farook adage something like, "That's what absolutely fabricated me absorbed in her, that's what fabricated her stick out from the added women."
Ali said he thinks cutting a niqab is courageous, abnormally in the West area humans aren't accustomed with such clothing. The two men agreed about that, he remembered.
"Other than that, his wife never came up in added conversations," he said.
He said Farook met his wife online, a convenance Ali said is accepted a part of his friends. "In our community, it's different," he said, acquainted that it's difficult for Muslim men to acquisition women to marry. "Internet has become something that eases it."
Ali said he had met Malik on a few occasions, but the niqab blocked her face. "If you asked me how she looked, I couldn't acquaint you," he said.
The brace were affiliated in Islam's angelic city-limits of Mecca in Saudi Arabia endure year, according to Farook's co-workers at the Bloom Department and others who knew them. The Saudi Embassy in Washington accepted that Farook spent nine canicule in the commonwealth in the summer of 2014.
Authorities said that if he alternate to the U.S. in July 2014, he brought Malik with him on a fiancée visa. Afterwards a accomplishments analysis by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, she was accepted a codicillary blooming agenda endure summer.
The couple's babyish babe was built-in in May, according to records. Malik was 29, according to records. San Bernardino Badge Chief Jarrod Burguan had afield accustomed her age as 27. Farook, a U.S. aborigine of Pakistani descent, was 28.
An advocate apery Farook's and Malik's ancestors said Malik never batten about Islamic State or terrorism.
"As far as I know, there was no altercation of any of that (among ancestors members)," Mohammad Abuershaid said.
The brace hadn't been affiliated that long, he said. "It wasn't like the ancestors had abundant time to get to apperceive her."
Abuershaid said the ancestors was actual bourgeois and that it would accept been absurd that Malik discussed her thoughts on apple events, including the agitation in the Average East, with her in-laws.
"Tashfeen was an alone who kept to herself a lot of of the time," Abuershaid said. He added that she was a affable housewife who backward at home with the baby.
The ancestors has met with the FBI and affairs to accommodated with bureau admiral afresh Monday, the advocate said.
Another advocate for the ancestors said ancestors associates were abashed to apprentice about Malik's and Farook's involvement.
"There's never been any affirmation that either of the two declared shooters were advancing (or) had agitator views," said David Chesley.
A federal law administration antecedent said Malik and Farook fabricated an bootless attack to abort their cyberbanking devices.
David Bowdich, the abettor administrator in allegation of the Los Angeles FBI office, said board accept recovered affirmation of assorted atomic accoutrements and that the assailants attempted to abort their "digital fingerprints."
He added that two ashamed cellphones were begin in a debris can.
Comey said the FBI was aggravating to actuate if the assailants were aggressive by adopted agitator organizations.
"We are spending a amazing bulk of time, as you ability imagine, over the endure 48 hours aggravating to accept the motives of these killers and aggravating to accept every detail of their lives," Comey said. "We apperceive that this is actual abashing for the humans of the United States. What we achievement you will do is not let abhorrence become disabling, but to instead approach it into an acquaintance of your surroundings."
Farook and Malik had accumulated an armory of 2,000 9 mm blaster rounds, 2,500 .223-caliber advance burglarize circuit and "hundreds of tools" that could accept been acclimated to accomplish atomic devices, authorities said.
The brace accursed at atomic 65 shots if they stormed a affair at the Inland Regional Center, area about 80 humans had gathered. Twelve of the 14 asleep and 18 of the 21 afflicted were canton employees, badge said.
Hours later, the brace exchanged battery with badge on San Bernardino streets, ablution bullets into homes and alarming residents.
Farook and Malik acclimated two advance rifles and two semiautomatic handguns, all of which were bought legally, according to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
On Friday morning, dozens of reporters were let central the Redlands boondocks abode area Malik and Farook lived. The doors and windows were boarded up, and the home was sparsely decorated. The admiral had a crib, babyish toys and children's books.
In the average of the active room, a archetype of the Quran adequate on a baby atramentous table. On addition table was a diffuse account of items the FBI had bedeviled in its investigation: Christmas lights, an iPhone, boxes and accoutrements of ammunition, letters, a authorization and gun accessories.
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