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Attorney General Loretta Lynch told a group of Muslims in Washington last night that her 'greatest fear' since the Paris terror attack is retaliatory violence against members of the religion
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[h=1]Attorney General's 'greatest fear' isn't Islamic terrorism - it's attacks on Muslims because of a backlash in wake of shootings[/h]
- 'We cannot give in to the fear that these backlashes are really based on,' said at a dinner for a Muslim advocate group
- Lynch did not mention the shooting in San Bernardino, California, committed by two Muslims and currently under investigation by the FBI
- Authorities said yesterday they couldn't be sure the shooting was terrorism, but GOP presidential contenders said it obviously was
- AG later said she had observed an 'incredibly disturbing rise of anti-Muslim rhetoric' since ISIS'' assault on Paris and the talk 'edges towards violence'
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[h=1]California terrorists got a $28k payment two weeks before attack - suspicious transfer revealed as FBI says couple had been radicalized for 'some time' and had rigged building to blow after massacre[/h]
Terror investigators have found a suspicious $28,000 deposit was made into the bank account of the San Bernardino gunman, just two weeks before he and his wife gunned down 14 and injured 21.
The latest finding raises the chilling possibility that Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik had outside help in their attack on the Inland Regional Center.
It comes as the FBI revealed the terror couple had been radicalized for 'some time' since they settled into married life in America in July 2014.
It has also emerged that they were targeting first responders with the pipe bombs they planted in the center and hoped to kill the brave men and women who rushed to the scene of the shootings.
Thankfully the bombs failed to detonate either due to a remote control malfunction or as a result of the buildings overhead emergency sprinklers.
It was also revealed on Monday that a $28,000 deposit was made into Farook’s bank account on or around November 18 from WebBank.com.
Investigators are now looking into whether the transaction was a loan. Farook earned $53,000 a year as an environmental health inspector for San Bernardino County.
WebBank.com, a Utah-based company, describes itself on its website as ‘ a leading provider of national consumer and commercial private-label and bank card financing programs’ on a nationwide basis.
Farook converted $10,000 of the $28,000 to cash on or about November 20, and withdrew the money from a Union Bank in San Bernardino.
In the days leading up to the massacre, at least three transfers of $5,000 appeared to go to Farook’s mother.
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An AR-15 assault rifle at Riverside Magnum Shooting Range earlier this year. Farook is said to have visited the range 'with frequency'
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Range owner Peter Lee (pictured) said that Farook probably visited the establishment frequently
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Farook reportedly spent hours at the shooting range (pictured) during one session, and used both a AR-15 assault rifle and a handgun
The loan and cash withdrawal were described as ‘significant evidence of pre-meditation’, a source told Fox News, which further undercuts the possibility of the shooting stemming from a disagreement at a work Christmas party.
Investigators are also reportedly looking into whether the $10,000 cash withdrawal was used to reimburse Enrique Marquez Jr, a security guard friend of Farook’s who is the man who bought the two semi-automatic rifles used in the attack.
The shooters themselves are thought to have bought handguns that were also used.
Marquez checked himself into a mental hospital after the killings, and FBI agents raided his home on Sunday. He is now reportedly answering investigators’ questions.
‘Right now our major concern at the FBI, the ATF, and the JTTF (Joint Terrorism Task Force) is determining how those firearms, the rifles in particular, got from Marquez to Farook and to Malik,’ assistant special agent in charge with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, John D’Angelo, said on Monday.
The weapons were all purchased legally in California between 2007 and 2012.
FBI agents are also looking into evidence of pre-meditation with an SUV rental charge that was processing on Farook’s account on November 30, two days before the shooting.
It has been revealed that the gunmen practiced shooting at a local firing range before Wednesday’s massacre, investigators said.
Farook, 28, went to Riverside Magnum Shooting Range, 25 miles from his home in Redlands, California, twice in the days before carrying out the terrorist attack with his wife Malik.
- Pipe bombs placed by Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik were supposed to detonate when first responders arrived on scene
- But the bombs at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, never detonated
- FBI says Farook and Malik were radicalized and had been 'for some time'
- Investigators are also looking into a $28,000 deposit made into Syed Farook’s bank account two weeks before the shooting
- Farook visited Riverside Magnum Shooting Range twice in the days before the San Bernardino shooting, and Malik joined him at least once
Terror investigators have found a suspicious $28,000 deposit was made into the bank account of the San Bernardino gunman, just two weeks before he and his wife gunned down 14 and injured 21.
The latest finding raises the chilling possibility that Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik had outside help in their attack on the Inland Regional Center.
It comes as the FBI revealed the terror couple had been radicalized for 'some time' since they settled into married life in America in July 2014.
It has also emerged that they were targeting first responders with the pipe bombs they planted in the center and hoped to kill the brave men and women who rushed to the scene of the shootings.
Thankfully the bombs failed to detonate either due to a remote control malfunction or as a result of the buildings overhead emergency sprinklers.
It was also revealed on Monday that a $28,000 deposit was made into Farook’s bank account on or around November 18 from WebBank.com.
Investigators are now looking into whether the transaction was a loan. Farook earned $53,000 a year as an environmental health inspector for San Bernardino County.
WebBank.com, a Utah-based company, describes itself on its website as ‘ a leading provider of national consumer and commercial private-label and bank card financing programs’ on a nationwide basis.
Farook converted $10,000 of the $28,000 to cash on or about November 20, and withdrew the money from a Union Bank in San Bernardino.
In the days leading up to the massacre, at least three transfers of $5,000 appeared to go to Farook’s mother.
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An AR-15 assault rifle at Riverside Magnum Shooting Range earlier this year. Farook is said to have visited the range 'with frequency'
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Range owner Peter Lee (pictured) said that Farook probably visited the establishment frequently
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Farook reportedly spent hours at the shooting range (pictured) during one session, and used both a AR-15 assault rifle and a handgun
The loan and cash withdrawal were described as ‘significant evidence of pre-meditation’, a source told Fox News, which further undercuts the possibility of the shooting stemming from a disagreement at a work Christmas party.
Investigators are also reportedly looking into whether the $10,000 cash withdrawal was used to reimburse Enrique Marquez Jr, a security guard friend of Farook’s who is the man who bought the two semi-automatic rifles used in the attack.
The shooters themselves are thought to have bought handguns that were also used.
Marquez checked himself into a mental hospital after the killings, and FBI agents raided his home on Sunday. He is now reportedly answering investigators’ questions.
‘Right now our major concern at the FBI, the ATF, and the JTTF (Joint Terrorism Task Force) is determining how those firearms, the rifles in particular, got from Marquez to Farook and to Malik,’ assistant special agent in charge with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, John D’Angelo, said on Monday.
The weapons were all purchased legally in California between 2007 and 2012.
FBI agents are also looking into evidence of pre-meditation with an SUV rental charge that was processing on Farook’s account on November 30, two days before the shooting.
It has been revealed that the gunmen practiced shooting at a local firing range before Wednesday’s massacre, investigators said.
Farook, 28, went to Riverside Magnum Shooting Range, 25 miles from his home in Redlands, California, twice in the days before carrying out the terrorist attack with his wife Malik.
[h=1]San Bernardino shooters radicalized as early as 2013, says FBI head[/h]
The couple who shot and killed 14 people in San Bernardino last week had been radicalized as early as 2013, FBI director James Comey said on Wednesday.
“They were actually radicalized before they started ... dating each other online, and as early as the end of 2013 they were talking to each other about jihad and martyrdom before they became engaged,” Comey said at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The couple who shot and killed 14 people in San Bernardino last week had been radicalized as early as 2013, FBI director James Comey said on Wednesday.
“They were actually radicalized before they started ... dating each other online, and as early as the end of 2013 they were talking to each other about jihad and martyrdom before they became engaged,” Comey said at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
