FATHER OF SYED RIZWAN FAROOK SAYS HIS SON SUPPORTED ISIL, FIXATED ON ISRAEL

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FATHER OF SYED RIZWAN FAROOK SAYS HIS SON SUPPORTED ISIL & WAS FIXATED ON ISRAEL:

YET PRES OBAMA STILL WON'T ADMIT TO RADICAL ISLAMISTS LINK.

~ San Bernardino shooter supported ISIS, was 'fixated' on Israel, father says.

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~ The father of Syed Rizwan Farook shares more details about him.

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Southern California gunman Syed Rizwan Farook was "fixated" on Israel -- and supported ISIS' ideology of establishing an Islamic caliphate, his father says.

Farook's father talked to an Italian newspaper about his son, one of two shooters in last week's deadly attack in San Bernardino.

Along with his wife, Tashfeen Malik, Farook sprayed bullets on his co-workers at a holiday party for the environmental health department. The couple was gunned down hours later in a shootout with authorities.

Before the shooting, Farook had expressed some troubling beliefs, his father told La Stampa newspaper.

"He said he shared the ideology of al-Baghdadi to create an Islamic State, and he was fixated on Israel," the elder Farook said, referring to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

The father, also named Syed Farook, recalled a time he saw his son with a gun.

"I became angry. In 45 years in the United States, I yelled: 'I have never had a weapon.' He shrugged his shoulders and replied: 'Your loss,' " the father said.

"I cannot forgive myself. Maybe if I had been at home, I would have found out and stopped him," he told the newspaper.

President speaks

As more reports emerge on the shooters' fascination with ISIS, President Barack Obama spoke to the nation Sunday night in a bid to temper growing anxiety. 

He described the attack as "an act of terrorism, designed to kill innocent people."

"The FBI is still gathering the facts about what happened in San Bernardino, but here's what we know: The victims were brutally murdered and injured by one of their co-workers and his wife," he said. 

"So far we have no evidence that the killers were directed by a terrorist organization overseas, or that they were part of a broader conspiracy here at home."

The gravity of the occasion was underscored by Obama's decision to use the symbolic power of the Oval Office for only the third time in his presidency, following addresses on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and the end of the Iraq war in 2010.

The investigation

A day before the father made news, ISIS hailed the couple as "supporters" of the terror group. The FBI has said it was treating the attack as an act of terrorism. 

The couple's motivation for the attack is a key focus for investigators.

Malik had posted to Facebook a pledge of allegiance to ISIS leader al-Baghdadi, three U.S. officials familiar with the investigation said.

But ISIS' acknowledgment of the couple as supporters doesn't mean they were members or that someone from the group ordered it, said Rick Francona, a CNN military analyst and a former intelligence officer.

ISIS, when claiming responsibility for other terrorist attacks, would call attackers "knights" or "soldiers" rather than supporters. It has, however, urged sympathizers to carry out attacks on their own.

"What they're calling these two are supporters, which is kind of a lesser level," indicating it might not have had direct contact with the couple, Francona said.

Link to terror groups? 

Farook looked into contacting terrorist groups overseas, such as al Qaeda affiliate al Nusra and Al-Shabaab, a senior law enforcement official said.

The source did not specify when or how those attempts were made. A working theory among investigators is that Malik was radicalized before meeting her husband. 

The source said it's too early to put a label on the attack, but at the very least, it appears the couple was inspired by ISIS and possibly other terrorist groups.

Officials caution there is still a lot to learn and there is a plethora of electronic media to review. Part of what is slowing the process down is that the couple's attempts to destroy their electronics made it challenging for investigators to exploit the material.

"They covered their tracks pretty well," the official said.

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OBAMA'S TERRORISM SPEECH OFFERED NO STRATEGY FOR ELIMINATING ISIL, PUSHING GUN CONTROL

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OBAMA'S TERRORISM SPEECH OFFERED NO STRATEGY FOR ELIMINATING ISIL, PUSHING GUN CONTROL:

OBAMA CHIDES AMERICA FOR CALLING OUT RADICALIZED ISLAMISTS.

~ Obama on San Bernardino: 'This Was an Act of Terrorism'
The President addressed the mass shooting in a televised speech from the Oval Office on Sunday.

President Obama has called a mass shooting in California this week an “act of terrorism.”

“This was an act of terrorism designed to kill innocent people,” the president said Sunday of the rampage that claimed 14 lives and wounded 21 others.

He spoke from a lectern in the Oval Office, flanked by framed photographs of his wife and daughters on the desk behind him.

Obama said that investigators do not believe the killers “were directed by a terrorist organization overseas or that they were part of a broader conspiracy here at home.”

“But it is clear that the two of them had gone down the dark path of radicalization, embracing a perverted interpretation of Islam that calls for war against America and the West,” he said.

This week, a husband and wife killed 14 people and wounded 21 in a shooting rampage at a meeting of the county health department at a center in San Bernardino.

The killers, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, died in a shootout with police hours later.

Farook worked as a health inspector at the department himself, and most of the victims were his coworkers, one of whom had shared a cubicle with Farook.

On the morning of the shooting, Malik pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in a Facebook post. Malik, a native of Pakistan, came to the United States last year to marry Farook, who was born in Illinois.

Both were devout Muslims. Farook’s coworkers said he rarely talked about his faith; Malik’s relatives in Pakistan say she grew more religious in recent years.

“As groups like ISIL grew stronger amidst the chaos of war in Iraq and Syria and as the Internet erases the distance between countries, we see growing efforts by terrorists to poison the minds of people,” Obama said Sunday.

The attack appeared to have been carefully orchestrated.

Farook and Malik wore masks and military-style vests and used assault rifles and handguns—some they had purchased legally, others they had reportedly gotten from someone else.

Investigators discovered the couple had turned part of their home into weapons stockpile.

They found thousands of rounds of ammunition, 12 completed pipe bombs, and materials to make more at their rented apartment in Redlands, less than a 15-minute drive from where the shooting occurred. Farook and Malik had smashed cellphones and deleted emails in an attempt to conceal their planning.

The FBI is investigating the attack as terrorism. The agency’s director, James Comey, said Friday the attack shows “indications of radicalization by the killers, and of potential inspiration by foreign terrorist organizations.”

Obama’s primetime speech was intended to reassure a public on edge in the wake of the Paris attacks last month, which were carried out by the Islamic State.

“I know that after so much war, many Americans are asking whether we are confronted by a cancer that has no immediate cure,” Obama said. “Well, here’s what I want you to know. The threat from terrorism is real, but we will overcome it.”

Obama outlined his current strategy for fighting the Islamic State, as he has done repeatedly in recent months: Launching airstrikes against targets in Iraq and Syria and helping Syrian and Iraqi Kurdish fighters on the ground.

He warned, as he has also done repeatedly in recent months, against sending Americans into combat, saying “we should not be drawn once more into a long and costly ground war in Iraq or Syria.”

The Defense Department States this month announced it would send special-operations troops to Iraq to aid local fighters, marking a public escalation in the Obama administration’s response to the terrorist group.

In the days after the San Bernardino shooting, the story developed into a wider conversation about terrorism, gun control, and even journalistic ethics.

California state lawmakers are consideringnew gun legislation.

Some Democratic members of Congress criticized their Republican counterparts for offering prayers in the aftermath of the mass shooting, and not legislative proposals for how to stop the next one.

The New York Timesran an editorial on its front page on Saturday for the first time since 1920, calling for greater regulation of guns.

Sources: The Atlantic, CNN, Whitehouse, Uptake Video, YouTube

SAN BERNARDINO TERRORIST ATTACK - ISIL IS HERE

SAN BERNARDINO TERRORIST ATTACK - ISIL IS HERE:

DUE TO RELAXED BORDER PATROL POLICIES, ISIL HAS ARRIVED ONTO AMERICAN SOIL

WILL U.S. MILITARY & CONGRESS KEEP AMERICA SAFE?

WHEN WILL AMERICAN LEAD AGAIN??

The recent JIHADIST Terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California which killed 14 innocent human beings can only mean one thing.

ISIL Terrorists (from the Middle East) have been allowed to Infiltrate American Society.

I repeat.

Due to relaxing America's Border Patrol Policies and due to CONGRESS being Bought & Sold by Middle East Oil Money, ISIL Terrorists (from the Middle East) have been allowed to Infiltrate American Society.

Now what are our U.S. Military Top Brass and Members of CONGRESS going to do to Protect the UNITED STATES?

Pres OBAMA wants to bring over thousands of Unchecked PAKISTANIS falsely posing as Syrian and Iraqi Refugees.

Many of those PAKISTANI Refugees are members or supporters of ISIL.

Will our U.S. Military Top Brass and Members of CONGRESS intentionally allow ISIL to enact a WAHABI, Radical ISLAMIST CALIPHATE on American soil??

It is time for American citizens to PRAY to our Lord and Demand that Congress get off its Money-hungry butt to ACT!


~ From Housewife to Killer: The Mystery of San Bernardino Shooter Tashfeen Malik

In a crime riddled with questions, she is the leading mystery.

After masquerading for months as a newly Americanized housewife, Tashfeen Malik dropped the facade in a burst of gunfire on Wednesday, joining her husband in an attack on his office Christmas party that left 14 people dead and 21 injured.

Until that moment, Malik had maintained a low profile in her adopted homeland.

A devout Pakistan-born Muslim, she spoke broken English, wore a veil in public, avoided her neighbors and refused to drive, even after giving birth to her first child in May.

She didn't appear to be very active on social media, but just before the attack, she logged onto Facebook and posted a statement of support for ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, according to law enforcement sources.

Malik and her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, died in a shootout with police a few hours later, leaving investigators to piece together their path from quiet suburban parenthood to one of the deadliest mass shootings in modern American history.

The FBI said neither Malik nor Farook had been on their radar.

"There is much that doesn't make sense, even for people that do this for a living," Director James Comey said Friday.

This much is known:

Malik, a Pakistani national, was from the province of Punjab but had lived with her family in Saudi Arabia for many years before returning to Pakistan to study pharmacy. She first met Farook, who was born in Illinois to Pakistani parents, online.

They agreed to meet in Saudi Arabia in 2013, when he performed the Hajj, a pilgrimage to Mecca that is required of Muslims.

They married, and Farook, an introverted San Benardino County health inspector, successfully petitioned to bring her home through a visa program for foreigners engaged to American citizens.

Their California marriage license became official in August 2014, allowing Malik to become a naturalized Pakistani-American citizen.

During her year or so in America, Malik seemed to her husband's family like a "typical housewife" — albeit one with traditional Muslim ideals, the family's lawyers said.

When the relatives came over, she never showed herself to the men.

She was soft-spoken and kept to herself, but appeared to be assimilating fine, they said.

"We were barely starting to get to know her because she was quiet, and shy like [her husband]," Saira Khan, Farook's sister, told NBC News Friday.

Neighbors had a similar impression.

One described her as very quiet, averting looks whenever she passed by people, always wearing a veil.

Occasionally, she showed up at the mosque where Farook worshiped.

After she became pregnant, Malik opened an online registry at Target, but listed only four items.

The baby, a girl, arrived in May. To Farook's family, the couple seemed happy and gave no outward sign of violence or fanaticism.

But at some point, Malik and Farook began secretly plotting their deadly attack, authorities said, amassing a cache of weapons and ammunition and turning their garage into a bomb-making facility.

On Wednesday morning, authorities said, they left their daughter at home with Farook's mother, saying one of them had a doctor's appointment.

Farook went to an office party with his colleagues at the San Bernardino County Division of Environmental Health Services.

He left and returned a little later with Malik, both of them wearing masks and carrying assault-style rifles.

They mowed Farook's colleagues down, then fled, leaving behind a remote-control bomb that did not go off.

That's what investigators have been able to piece together. But there are many questions that remain unanswered. Most notably:

Had Malik and her husband become radicalized? If so, how?

"We have no indication that these killers are part of an organized larger group or form part of a cell," FBI Director James Comey said. "There's no indication that they are part of a network."

ISIS has not claimed responsibility for what the couple did, but a media organization affiliated with the group has called them "supporters."

The Farook family's lawyers said they were skeptical of any purported links to terror organizations, saying they had seen no solid evidence.

Other basic facts are also unclear. Malik's age is disputed: authorities say she was 27, but her California marriage license says she was 29.

On Friday, authorities in the United States, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia continued trying to piece together Malik's travels, and any links to terror groups.

That includes the process by which Malik was allowed to join Farook in the United States.

A State Department spokeswoman said the agency was confident in the process but did not say how or where in Pakistan Malik obtained her visa.





Sources: NBC News, YouTube