Federal investigators are uncovering new evidence that may indicate San Bernardino Islamic terrorist, Syed Farook, was not acting alone. As the Left desperately recoils from the fiction of spontaneous “workplace violence,” the time-tested narrative of the quintessential Muslim jihadist is beginning to emerge in stark relief.
“Investigators believe shooter Syed Rizwan Farook may have been plotting an earlier attack in California with someone else,” reports CNN. “One of the officials said the two conspired in 2012 and a specific target was considered. The pair ‘got spooked’ and decided not to go through with the earlier attack after a round of terror-related arrests in the area, an official said.”
The FBI’s latest revelation adds to the mounting evidence that the Islamic terrorists who slaughtered 14 Americans in cold blood were not acting alone. Here is what we know so far: Exactly $28,500 was deposited into Syed Farook’s bank account nearly two weeks prior to the deadly attack in San Bernardino, according to Fox News. The deposit was made via WebBank.com on (or close to) Nov. 18. Farook allegedly made a cash withdrawal of $10,000 prior to the militarized assault on the San Bernardino disabled center.
The FBI has also been questioning Farook’s mother, a seemingly-devout Muslim that lived in the same apartment where her son and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, compiled dozens of pipe bombs, explosive devices, tactical gear, high power ammunition, and firearms. There is reason to believe that Farook’s mother was indeed involved or at least had knowledge of her son’s scheme. “About half the [$28,500 deposit] was given to Farook’s mother in the last couple of weeks, one official said, and some of it was spent on household items,” reports CNN. “What it indicates is he was financing this operation or his life or his afterlife for his child and mother, using what is now wire fraud and bank fraud, so it’s just two more additional charges that the FBI will be looking at,” a former FBI counterterrorism agent told CNN.
Furthermore, Farook’s father has been placed on the United States’ terror watch list, pending further investigation. The elder Syed migrated from Pakistan in 1972, later becoming a US citizen in 1999. Ironically, the jihadist’s brother, Syed Raheel Farook, is a decorated US Navy veteran, awarded for fighting terrorists.
Co-terrorist and wife, Tashfeen Malik, comes from a highly-suspect background, thickening the plot even further. She is believed to have been radicalized for a number of years prior to entering the United States on a marriage visa. CNN reports:
Malik grew up in central Pakistan and studied pharmacy at a university there. On Monday, Pakistani intelligence authorities raided the home owned by her father in Multan, a city about 220 miles (350 kilometers) southwest of Lahore. Malik had lived there until spring 2014, around the time she got married and moved to the United States on a fiancee visa.
After finding the residence padlocked and chained shut, authorities got inside and seized religious instruction books, audio CDs with Quran readings and various documents, according to Pakistani intelligence sources.
Malik took but never completed a Quranic course through the Al-Huda International Welfare Foundation. In a statement, that religious study center said she told her instructor in May 2014 that she wouldn’t be able to finish because she was about to get married.
Although the FBI has been flirting with the theory that Tashfeen Malik, Farook’s co-terrorist wife, was indeed the one that fully radicalized her husband, the verdict is still out on the Farook family’s nefarious background. And yet, “Female Muslim terrorists are becoming increasingly more active, even as the Islamic world denies women basic human rights. The one place that radical Islam permits equality is in death. While women may live as inferiors, they can die as martyrs, just like Muslim men,” writes The Daily Wire’s Michael Qazvini. “This macabre ideology is exemplified by the Black Widow terrorists, Brides of Allah,Shahidkas, and Chechen female suicide bombers. The San Bernardino female terrorist now joins a colorful cohort of empowered Muslim women.”
“Investigators are working to determine if the pair ever met or took orders from ISIS leaders, or if anyone outside the United States had a hand in or knew of their plans.”
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Malik’s jihadist allegiances lend support to the theory that the couple was not acting alone. In fact, when the female terrorist posted her support for ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Facebook, she used the collective pronoun “we,” which may invoke her husband or perhaps a larger network of jihadis.
“Investigators are working to determine if the pair ever met or took orders from ISIS leaders, or if anyone outside the United States had a hand in or knew of their plans,” confirms CNN. “Officials say it’s possible the husband and wife did everything, from becoming radicalized to planning and executing the attack, on their own.”