By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The San Bernardino terrorists who opened fire at a holiday party, killing 14 people on Dec. 2, also planned to detonate an explosive device inside the room, the FBI told the Los Angeles Times.
Investigators said Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, hid a pipe bomb inside a bag at the Inland Regional Center.
What remains unclear is when the couple planned to detonate the bomb – before or after opening fire.
“Was the intent to detonate prior to their attack?” David Bowdich, the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles field office, asked. “We just don’t have the answer.”
The bomb, which was attached to a remote-control toy car, “was armed and ready to detonate,” Bowdich said.
The remote control for the toy car was found in the couple’s SUV.
