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United States of America PhOtOs-Muslim Massacre in US >Many Dead/Injured

Killer Couple's Links to International Terror:
US-Born Gunman Was 'in Touch with Known Terror Suspects and Radicalized Online'
> After 'Wooing his Pakistani Wife on Devout Muslim Pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia'


  • Two suspects were killed by police in San Bernardino
    after a mass shooting at a conference center Wednesday
  • Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, were killed in a gun battle with police after the mass shooting
  • Farook is said to have traveled to Saudi Arabia earlier this year and returned with a wife - and a baby followed
  • He wrote in an online profile on a Muslim dating site six years prior that he enjoys doing target practice in his backyard
  • Farook graduated from California State University, San Bernardino with a degree in environmental health in 2009
  • Farook and his wife left their six-month-old baby daughter with his mother in Redlands, California, telling her they were going for a doctor's appointment
  • Police said 14 died and 21 were wounded after suspects opened fire at the Inland Regional Center on Wednesday
  • San Bernardino Police Chief said shooters wore 'assault-style' clothing, had GoPro cameras strapped to them and had two handguns and two assault rifles - all legally purchased in US within the past four years, according to ATF
  • Farook had attended the holiday party but 'left' angry, according to police, and later returned with his wife to carry out the massacre
  • Suspects left three explosive devices rigged to a remote-controlled toy car inside at the Inland Regional Center before fleeing in an SUV
  • Cops were in a dramatic standoff with the suspects after reports that up to three people were on the loose
  • Suspects reportedly threw pipe bombs out of the windows of their SUV before they were taken down by police
  • An officer was taken to hospital with non life-threatening injuries after the standoff on a residential street
  • Police and federal agents searched a home in Redlands associated with Farook's family early Thursday morning in desperate hunt for clues
  • President Obama said in a statement from the Oval Office it is possible the massacre in San Bernardino was related to terrorism, but it's also possible it was workplace-related
Daily Mail UK, 3 December 2015




Syed Rizwan Farook (pictured inset), who is U.S.-born, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, were killed in a gun battle with police after the mass shooting at a government holiday party held at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino.


Relatives have said the two were married. San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said Farook, 28, an environmental specialist with the county health department, had attended the party, but left 'angry'. He said a motive is not yet known, but said there did seem to be 'some degree of planning involved' in the attack.

Farook was an environmental specialist with the county health department who sometimes worked at the Inland Regional Center. Farook met his wife in her native Saudi Arabia after meeting her online befoe marrying and moving back to the US.

Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), says the couple left their baby with family Wednesday morning and never returned. Farook's brother-in-law Farhan Khan spoke at a press conference held at the offices of the CAIR in Anaheim to say he was stunned to hear of his relative's involvement in the shooting.

Khan, who is married to Farook's sister, said he last spoke to him about a week ago. He said he had 'absolutely no idea why he would do this. I am shocked myself.'

San Bernardino gunman Syed Farook met his Pakistani wife-turned-accomplice Tashfeen Malik while on the hajj in Saudi Arabia and appeared to have been radicalized, law enforcement officials revealed this afternoon.

investigators told CNN that Farook, a native US citizen of South Asian descent, was in touch by phone and via social media with more than one international terrorism subject.

Federal officials also told NBC News that Farook made a trip to Saudi Arabia within the past two years, most likely for the hajj – the annual religious pilgrimage to the sacred city of Mecca that all devout Muslims are required to go on at least once in their lives.

It is believed that during his stay overseas, he met Malik, got engaged and later brought her over the US on a K-1 fiancee visa.
After the couple got married, Malik, who was a native of Pakistan, became a naturalized US citizen.

On Wednesday morning, Farook, 28, and Malik, 27, dropped off their six-month-old baby with Farook's mother, saying they were going to a doctor's appointment.

By noon, according to police, the couple had donned assault clothing, armed themselves with rifles and stormed a holiday party attended by San Bernardino County employees, killing 14 people and wounding 21 others. According to some reports, the duo had GoPro cameras strapped to their body armor during the shooting.
Before sunset, after a massive manhunt and a violent shootout with police on a residential street in the city of Redlands.

Those who knew Farook, among them his colleagues at the San Bernardino County Public Health Department, described him as a devout Muslim but not someone who often talked about religion.

'He never struck me as a fanatic, he never struck me as suspicious,' said Griselda Reisinger, a former colleague.

Co-worker Patrick Baccari, who shared a cubicle with Farook, said he and his young family appeared to be 'living the American dream.'





Syed Rizwan Farook (pictured), 28, who is U.S.-born, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, were killed in a gun battle with police after the mass shooting at a government holiday party held at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino





A broken window and crushed fence is seen at a home in Redlands, California, linked to the San Bernardino shooting suspects Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife





Pre-dawn raid: FBI agents search outside a home in Redlands, California, connected to Farook and Malik





The suspects' bullet-ridden black SUV is seen in a street in Redlands, California, early Thursday morning as police continue their investigation





FBI and police investigator are seen around the vehicle surrounded by yellow evidence tags on the ground





Officers are seen gathering evidence around the shot-up SUV belonging to the shooters





Grisly aftermath: An assault rifle is seen resting on the sidewalk near a large blood stain and a pair of black sneakers in Redlands





Local news footage on Wednesday evening showed one of the dead attackers outside the shot-out SUV. The suspect was killed in a police chase while still inside the vehicle, then moved on the street


In the pre-dawn hours of Thursday morning, a search team comprised of police and federal agents combed the residence in Redlands,

California, associated with Farook and his wife. A black sedan parked outside was also searched.
The home is where officers initially saw a vehicle matching the description of the suspects' SUV in the hours before the final gun battle that killed them.

A bomb squad on Wednesday swept the building with robots. Public records show it is a possible residence of a family member of Farook.

President Barack Obama addressed the shooting from the Oval Office shortly before noon Eastern Time, saying it is possible the massacre in San Bernardino was related to terrorism, but it's also possible it was workplace-related, or that the perpetrators had mixed motives.

'At this stage, we don't yet know why this terrible event occurred,' a somber Mr Obama told the press.
'We do know that the two individuals who were killed were equipped with weapons and appeared to have access to additional weaponry at their homes, but we don't know why they did it; we do not know the extent of their plans and their motivations.'

The commander-in-chief assured Americans that the FBI, who has taken over the investigation, will get to the bottom of what happened in California on Wednesday.
In his remarks, Obama also touched upon the issue of gun control, saying the nation must make it harder for people to carry out acts of violence.

'We see the prevalence of these kinds of mass shootings in this country, and like so many Americans, sometime feel as if there is nothing we can do about it,’ Obama said.
'We can't just leave it to our professionals to deal with the problem of these kinds of horrible killings. We all have a part to play.





Somber mood: President Barack Obama addressed the shooting from the Oval Office shortly before noon Eastern Time, saying it is possible the massacre in San Bernardino was related to terrorism, but it's also possible it was workplace-related





Call to action: The president said the nation, including the local legislatures, must make it harder to carry out acts of gun violence





Nation in mourning: The American flag over the White House is lowered to half staff to honor the victims of the San Bernardino shootings


'We're gonna have to search ourselves, as a society, to make sure that we can take basic steps that would make it harder, not impossible, but harder, for individuals to get access to weapons.'

Earlier in the day, US Attorney General Loretta Lynch said at a press conference the Justice Department will be offering ‘any and all assistance necessary’ as the investigation into the California mass shooting continues.

Lynch was speaking at an event about criminal justice at the White House. She called Wednesday’s deadly massacre ‘unspeakable.’
Lynch says the government doesn't know a lot yet about the incident. But she says the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service and other federal authorities have been dispatched.

The attorney general said that whatever the results of the investigation, there's no place for this type of violence in the US.

In the hours after the shooting, more information emerged about Farook, who was born in the US, and Malik, whom is he thought to have met and married in Saudi Arabia two years ago.

Farook's family was originally from South Asia, while Malik was believed to be from Pakistan and had lived in Saudi Arabia before coming to the United States, said Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic

Relations (CAIR). Farook had an older brother, he added, who had served in the US military.
Farook graduated from California State University, San Bernardino with a degree in environmental health in 2009, according to the university's commencement document.

As BuzzFeed first reported, according to Transparent California, which publishes public employee salary information, Farook earned $51,747 plus benefits, in 2013 working as an environmental health specialist.

The gunman's father, also named Syed Farook, seemed shocked in the wake of the slaughter.
“I haven’t heard anything,' the elder Mr Farook said before his son’s name became public. 'He was very religious. He would go to work, come back, go to
pray, come back. He’s Muslim.'





This image appears to show a body being pulled from the vehicle after the attackers had been killed





The second attacker, who is believed to have tried to run from the SUV, can be seen in a pool of blood in the bottom-right ot this image, taken from local news footage





A differently-angled aerial shot of the scene shows the second attacker on the other side of the street from the SUV, which has had its passenger-side front and back windows shot out





The shooters began their massacre at the Inland Regional Center (top left) before fleeing. Police later traced them to a home in Redlands (bottom right), where a chase began which ended on San Bernardino Avenue (top center), where the two were shot dead





Heavily-armed officers are seen closing in on the SUV which the two killers drove on a deadly chase through San Bernardino



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'I'LL TAKE A BULLET BEFORE YOU DO, THAT'S FOR DAMN SURE': BRAVE COP REASSURES PEOPLE TRAPPED INSIDE MASSACRE CONFERENCE CENTER

A brave San Bernardino cop reassured terrified workers inside the Inland Regional Center that he would take a bullet to save them.

The unnamed officer tells people to 'try to relax' as he leads them through the corridors of the building where shortly before 14 people had been murdered.

He asks the clearly panicking crowd to walk calmly with their hands above their heads, and points out that he will be the first to be hurt should anything go wrong as he is leading the way.

The officer tells the group: 'Try to relax, try to relax. I'll take a bullet before you do - that's for damn sure'.
In an online profile reportedly created by Farook and his parents six years ago on the dating site iMilap.com, a 'one stop source for Indian matrimonial and dating services,' the health inspector described himself as 6 feet tall and said he didn't drink or smoke

Farook wrote that he was part of a 'religios [sic] but modern family of 4 - 2 girls, 2 boys,' and that he enjoyed 'doing target practice with younger sister and friends' in their backyard.
He added that he enjoyed working on vintage and modern cars, and read religious books while enjoying eating out sometimes.

He was also registered on Dubaimatrimonial.com, a dating site that is the 'first and only legal marriage service provider in UAE' (United Arab Emirates), according to the website description. In that profile, Farook described himself as being from Karachi, Pakistan, but was born in Chicago and was residing in Los Angles as an American citizen. His religion was shown as Islam.

He also shared his thoughts on living a balanced life as a Muslim-American: 'I try to live as a good Muslim. Looking for a girl who has the same outlook, wear hijab, but live the life to the fullest.'
Public records suggest possible turbulence in Farook's younger life.

In 2006, Rafia Farook, who records indicate is Farook's mother, filed in a Riverside court for divorce from her husband, the elder Mr Farook.

She enumerated multiple instances of domestic abuse in the legal filing, and said her husband 'threatens to kill himself on a daily basis.' During one incident, she said in a court filing, her son came between them 'to save me.'

The suspect's co-worker, Patrick Baccari, said Farook was gone for about a month in the spring. A short time after his return, he was joined by his wife, a woman he described as a pharmacist. A baby soon followed.

An online baby registry on the site The Bump that has been attributed to Tashfeen Malik mentions the city of Riverside, California, as the mother's address and a due date of May 17, 2015. Malik's short wish list included Pampers diapers for newborns, cotton swabs, baby body wash and a convertible car seat.

Baccari said the reserved Farook showed no signs of unusual behavior, although he grew out his beard several months ago.
He said he had been sitting at the same table as Farook at the party on Wednesday morning, but his co-worker suddenly disappeared, leaving his coat behind. Baccari escaped most of the carnage as he was in the bathroom when the shooting started, and sustained only minor wounds from shrapnel which made it through the wall.





Eligible bachelor: Prior to his marriage two years ago, Farook had been registered on at least two online dating webiste, including Dubaimatrimonial.com, which is billed as the 'first and only legal marriage service provider in UAE.' The screengrab above shows Farook's dating profile





An online baby registry on the site The Bump that has been attributed to Tashfeen Malik mentions the city of Riverside as the mother's address and a due date of May 17, 2015





Syed Farook's brother-in-law Farhan Khan (pictured) spoke at a press conference held at the offices of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Anaheim to say he was stunned to hear of his relative's involvement in the shooting


'If I hadn't been in the bathroom, I'd probably be laying dead on the floor,' he said.
San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said that Farook was 'angry' when he left the party, before returning with Malik and a stash of heavy weapons. Burguan said that there was obviously 'some degree of planning involved' in the attack.

Survivors of the shooting said the heavily armed duo entered the party venue and opened fire on the guests without uttering a single word.
Police said a third person was detained. It is not clear whether they are connected to the incident.

Hussam Ayloush, the executive director of CAIR, said the couple left their six-month-old daughter with Farook's mother in the city of Redlands early on Wednesday morning. They told her they were going to attend a doctor's appointment for the wife. They never returned.

Dramatic aerial images showed the aftermath of the police chase, which came to an end around a mile and a half from the scene of the massacre.

The bodies of Farook and Malik can be seen near their shot-out SUV, surrounded by heavily-armed officers. One of them was killed in the passenger seat and later removed from the vehicle, while another of the pair appears to have bolted from the vehicle and been gunned down not far away.

Fragments of video from witnesses on the ground showed the killers and officers exchanging gunfire on the roads of San Bernardino as bystanders ducked for cover. The chase ended some time between 3pm and 4pm local time Wednesday - as long as five hours after the massacre began.

A source told CNN that the suspects threw pipe bombs out of the windows of the vehicle before the shootout with police.

A spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said the suspects threw a thick-gauge copper pipe out of the SUV, but no explosives were found inside. The fake pipe bomb was equipped with a piece of material made to look like a wick.

One officer was hit in the shoot-out, and was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

The married couple also reportedly had left explosives behind in the conference center in San Bernardino prior their escape in the wake of the slaughter.

A bag believed to belong to Farook and Malik was later found at the site of the holiday party. Inside, police discovered three crudely made bombs packed with black powder and rigged to a remote-controlled toy car.

The remote for the car was later recovered from Farook and Malik's SUV, a law enforcement official said, adding that its presence indicated that the couple planned to detonate the explosives from a distance but something must have stopped them.



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REVEALED: ARMORY OF HUSBAND-AND-WIFE KILLER DUO WHO USED 'MILITARY TACTICS' IN POLICE SHOOTOUT

Police revealed late Wednesday that Farook and Malik were armed with two assault rifles and two automatic handguns in their battle to the death with the cops.

Officials said that a .223-caliber DPMS Model A15 rifle and a Smith and Wesson M&P15 rifle were both recovered from the scene. They also found a handgun made by Llama and a Smith and Wesson handgun.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms said they traced the guns and found that two of them were bought legally, though it did not specify which guns and who purchased them.

It came as a police source said the killer duo used 'military tactics' to confront police. They reportedly had body-mounted cameras, which would have allowed them to record the massacre.



A dramatic police shootout was underway in San Bernardino as police closed in on the terror gunman suspected of killing 14 and injuring another 21 at a disabled learning center on Wednesday morning


KNBC reporter Michelle Valles tweeted shortly after 6am on Thursday that the gunmen's shot-up black SUV was still in the street where the gun battle with police took place the night before.

Neighbors in Redlands were shocked that the suspected shooters had ties to their city.
A man who has been working in town told CBS he noticed a half-dozen Middle Eastern men in the area in recent weeks, but decided not to report anything since he did not wish to racially profile those people.

Police have yet to offer a clear motive for the attack, though federal agencies have yet to rule out terrorism, and are hunting for links to ISIS and other extremist groups.

Farook's brother-in-law Farhan Khan spoke at a press conference held at the offices of the CAIR in Anaheim to say he was stunned to hear of his relative's involvement in the shooting.

Khan, who is married to Farook's sister, said he last spoke to him a week ago. He said he had 'absolutely no idea why he would do this. I am shocked myself.'

'I just cannot express how sad I am for what happened today. I am very sad that people lost their lives. I am shock that something like this could happen.' Khan said other family members asked him to speak at the news conference, and to express their sadness over the shootings.

The FBI are considering domestic terrorism and workplace violence as potential motives in the killing, which is the worst since Sandy Hook elementary school was attacked in 2012.

After Farook and Malik were killed, police served a search warrant on a home in Redlands, believed to be the one where the chase began.
Around six vehicles carrying helmeted police drove into the area. One officer carrying an assault rifle ordered reporters to clear the area, and an armored vehicle parked outside a row of homes.





A police helicopter hovers around the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, the scene of a mass shooting on Wednesday morning





Authorities guard the perimeter near the location of an officer-involved shooting in San Bernardino, California following a mass shooting that killed 14 people at a social services center for the disabled






Dozens of police cars have been pictured lined up along the street as armed officers sweep through the neighborhood, saying they are still responding to an 'active situation'





Heavily armed officers are still sweeping the area around San Bernardino Avenue, around a mile and a half from where the original shooting took place, though they are not sure if another suspect is still on the loose





Police also confirmed that an officer, believed to be from the San Bernardino county force, was wounded in a shoot-out with the suspects and is now in hospital with non-life threatening injuries


Stories also began to emerged from those inside the conference center. Shortly before noon, dozens of people were seen existing the building with their hands up. Others were seen being taken away by paramedics on gurneys. Those who fled were brought to a golf course behind, but were then moved from the scene due to a 'potential explosive device.'

The LA Times reported how one victim hid under a desk when she was shot once in the lower back.
Denise Peraza, 27, called her sister telling her that two armed gunmen, dressed in black, wearing black masks entered and started shooting at random.

'She said, "I just want to tell you that I love you" and then she said she had to go and she hung up,' said Stephanie Baldwin.
She said after the shooting, everything was silent for around five minutes until police entered and she was taken out of the building.

Marcos Aquilera said his wife was in the Inland building when a shooter burst in and opened fire.
'They locked themselves in her office. They seen bodies on the floor,' Aguilera said.

People inside the building sent panicked texts to friends and relatives as the gunmen armed with what has been described by CNN as AK-47s stormed the center.





SWAT officers have been pictured riding through the streets on the side of an armored vehicle carrying out house-to-house searches for a suspected third gunman who police say could still be on the loose





According to a police spokesman two suspects are 'being dealt with' around the shot-out SUV


A woman named Holly who works at the learning center where the shooting took place texted her father, Terry Pettit: 'Shooting at my work. People shot. Waiting for cops to catch him. Pray for us.'

Pettit replied: 'Hide find a good spot hide now.'
Holly said: 'I am but we are locked in an office. Cops SWAT helicopter, everything here.'

Another worker named Gina texted her sister Monique: 'There's a shoot out at my work I'm scared.'

The San Bernardino Fire Department tweeted at around 11am local time that first responders were on the scene in 1300 block of South Waterman Avenue. The shooting occurred at the Inland Regional Center, a non-profit organization for people with disabilities.

Marybeth Feild, the president and CEO of the Inland Regional Center, said the shooting happened in the conference area of a building that houses at least 25 employees as well as a library.

Glenn Willwerth, who heard shots being fired, said that he saw a black SUV leaving the scene that was 'driving slowly and deliberately'. He said he saw people running frantically out of the building and hiding behind cars.




Victims were pictured outside the conference center after the shooting





A heavily-armed officer was pictured outside the conference center in the immediate aftermath of the shooting - while Farook and Malik were still on the run





A couple embraced following a mass shooting at the Inland Regional Center that left 14 people dead in San Bernardino, California





People were pictured being evacuated from the car park with their hands up after the shooting, which took place around 11am local time


A day before the shooting, the San Bernardino center hosted a children's Christmas party.
While most of the center's youngest patients only come in for appointments, some of the most disabled are permanent residents.

A video posted on Twitter showed wheelchair-bound children beaming as they danced to the song Celebrate in one of the center's halls - and pictures posted to the center's official Facebook page show children receiving presents from Santa Claus.

SWAT teams were called in to clear the scene, according to Los Angeles News reporter Doug Sanders.

A bomb squad used a robot to detonate an apparent explosive device left at the scene

Loma Linda University Medical has received four patients in its trauma center and officials there were expecting three more. Hospital spokeswoman Briana Pastorino said she didn't know the patients' conditions.

Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, which is run by the county, has received eight patients.





Emergency services treated victims on the tarmac as police issued alerts to find the shooters





The attackers were wearing tactical gear, armed with rifles, and left a suspicious package






One of the victims was removed on a stretcher from the center, where they started doing active shooter drills last year






More than 200 staff members were ushered into a waiting area to be shuttled to a safe zone


President Barack Obama was briefed on the shooting in San Bernardino by homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco, and has asked to be kept informed as the situation develops.

In an interview with CBS News this afternoon, Obama addressed this latest shooting.

'We have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world, and there are some steps we can take... to improve the odds that they don't happen as frequently,' said the president.

The shooting in San Bernardino comes less than a week after a man opened fire at a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado, killing a police officer and two civilians, and injuring nine others.
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