Experts in jihad, clearing attorneys and above U.S. diplomats say there's no assurance added adopted brides accept approved Western marriages to barrage attacks, and it's still not bright if 29-year-old Tashfeen Malik did so. But, they warn, that could change, abnormally if IS militants activate actively auspicious women to accompany men in attacks in the West.
While the accumulation currently confined women from demography up accoutrements for action or added attacks, its commanders are businesslike and adjustable and could bead their ban at any time, aegis experts say.
"When they see an befalling to do damage, and the best man for the job is a woman, they will use the woman," said Sasha Havlicek, a architect of the British-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue, whose plan includes ecology the breeze of changeable agitator recruits.
"We will see women added alive in alarm plots," Havlicek predicted. "We already apperceive they are radicalizing in aberrant numbers."
The breeze of IS supporters can aswell go the added way. Up to 30 women accept larboard America to try to accompany the Islamic State accumulation back it rose to prominence, according to a contempo appraisal from the Department of Homeland Security.
The numbers are college in Europe, area added than 600 women accept larboard to accompany extremists over that aforementioned period, Havlicek said.
A religious bourgeois who lived ahead in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, Malik abutting her American-born bedmate of beneath than two years, Syed Farook, on Dec. 2 in donning appropriate gear, avaricious advance weapons and slaughtering 14 humans at his appointment anniversary affair in Southern California.
While women ahead accept served as suicide bombers for agitated Islamist groups, experts call Malik's role as a aperture of accepted IS banned on the role of women, and the accumulation has been aerial in its accessible responses to the killings.
Farook and his family, like abounding acceptable families in South Asia and elsewhere, acclimated bounded matchmaking websites to seek for a acceptable bride, although it's not bright if that's how he met Malik.
An Associated Press analysis of betrothed websites showed abounding families in Pakistan gluttonous grooms with passports to added affluent countries, including the United States and Canada, but aswell in the Middle East.
There were no accessible agitator angle on the profiles of ambitious brides and grooms. Some Pakistan families, however, told The Associated Press they abhorred online matchmaking for just that fear.
"After the adventure in California, we should be acutely careful," said Munir Anwar, a artist in the acutely bourgeois boondocks of Liaqatpur, in Malik's home arena of Punjab, Pakistan.
People affair accompany or matches online "play with fire," declared Azim Khalid, a university abecedary in the Punjab boondocks of Vehari.
Unlike Malik, who was a university graduate, a lot of of the Pakistan brides accepting approved by Pakistani-origin families in the West tend to be beneath accomplished and appropriately accepted to be bigger housewives, said Eric T. Dean Jr., a Connecticut-based clearing advocate who specializes in fiance visas for brides and grooms from abroad, like the acceptance on which Malik arrived.
Dean said he's noticed one aspect on fiance visas: The United States appears to accord about all ambitious grooms from Pakistan gluttonous fiance visas an added band of aegis checks accepted as "administrative processing."
But he couldn't anamnesis a ambitious Pakistani helpmate accepting that added scrutiny.
The State Department, which endure year denied no added than 618 out of added than 36,500 fiance visas approved globally, beneath to say how abounding of those denials were for aegis concerns.
The Islamic State group, meanwhile, has avidly approved changeable recruits to serve as brides for fighters in its area in Syria.
While assembly including Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, accurate worry, afterwards the San Bernardino shootings, of adopted brides marrying American citizens accurately to barrage attacks here, there's no affirmation to date that's anytime happened, aegis experts and others said.
The prohibition on women demography the breach in jihad is one key reason. Alone if imams affair a fatwa, or ruling, that women are bare for the action can they accompany it, the Islamic State accumulation declared beforehand this year in an online manifesto.
If Malik's alliance to Farook were abiding by an agitator alignment or operative, Graham declared that as a "game changer" during a audition this anniversary in Washington.
In acknowledgment to a catechism from Graham, FBI Director James Comey testified that any captivation in the alliance by agitator groups would be "a very, actual important affair to know."
So far, IS has acclaimed the husband-and-wife aggregation about alone as "supporters. Malik went on Facebook at the time of the advance to affirm the couple's adherence to the group.
Perhaps because of Malik's role, changeable IS recruits who've been quick to babble online about added beheadings, bombings and shootings accept been hushed about this attack, said Melanie Smith, addition researcher at Havlicek's Center for Strategic Dialogue.
"I anticipate they wish to be affectionate of celebratory about it," Smith said. "But it affectionate of goes adjoin what they are told is all-important and accustomed for them."
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