FBI: California Couple That Opened Fire at Holiday Party Were Radicalized ‘for Quite Some Time’

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San Bernardino couple at at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport in 2014.

By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com

The California couple that opened fire at a holiday lunch party in San Bernardino “were radicalized and have been for quite some time,” an FBI official said.

CNN reports that Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik were ISIS supporters who practiced their shooting at a gun range, according to David Bowdich, a top official in the FBI’s Los Angeles field office.

“The question for us,” he told reporters Monday, “is how, and by whom and where.”

Although the couple supported ISIS, it’s still unclear whether they took orders, met with terrorist leaders or executed the attack on their own.

“Remember, oftentimes, it’s on the Internet. We just don’t know,” Bowdich said. “I don’t want to speculate.”

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