The wife in the shooting duo with her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, has been identified and also has been discovered to have pledged her allegiance to the Islamic State on Facebook, right before the massacre that left 14 innocent people dead at a holiday party. Full story after the jump.
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The mystery Pakistani woman, who went on a shooting rampage with her new husband in San Bernardino, California, is believed to have been ordered to go on the killing spree by ISIS, after her joining of the terrorist group.
Tashfeen Malik pledged her loyalty to ISIS leader and self-proclaimed “caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi right before the attack. Federal officials have recovered the deleted pledge and is now using it as the stone-cold evidence as to motive for the killings.
The pledge was posted on Facebook under a different name, than deleted. Officials now believe it may have been Malik who coerced her husband Farook, in aiding her in the slaying of the holiday party-goers. Usually it’s the other way around, as this is the first time officials have seen this happen.
Southern California Pakistani-American leader stated:
“Tashfeen remains the biggest mystery. She’s the one no one knows anything about and has little to no presence on the Internet or having interacted with others in the Muslim community.”
Farook has formely served in the U.S Navy, so officials believe it is unlikely that he was the one to initiate the attack.
Ryan Mauro, a national security analyst for the Clarion Project (international terrorism tracking system) also stated:
“It is possible that she radicalized him or that suspected terrorists inside America he was communicating with are responsible for the radicalization, which led him to be attracted to a more hardline Salafi girl.”
Malik and Farook lived with their baby daughter and his mother, Rafia Farook, in a Redlands, Calif., apartment described by an investigator as an “IED factory” and ammo arsenal.
Previously: 12 People Killed In Shooting At San Bernardino Social Services Facility
