Female San Bernardino shooting suspect ID'd as Tashfeen Malik, officials confirm
Source: CBS News
@CBSNews: NEW: Female #SanBernardino shooting suspect ID'd as Tashfeen Malik, officials confirm https://t.co/rT69aVLfyH/s/XI7z https://t.co/gtMXKkQGUG/s/enpT
@CBSNews: RT @CBSNLive: 2 suspects killed in officer shootout were married, had 6-month-old, @DavidBegnaud reports https://t.co/HZ3UYtYG95/s/LHba https://t.co/8H32WrzVrC/s/rZDs
@sbcountysheriff: Syed Rizwan Farook was a San Bernardino County employee. The relationship between the two susp. not confirmed. Could be wife, gf etc.
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/live/
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)magical thyme
(14,881 posts)riversedge
(69,730 posts)San Bernardino shooting suspect traveled to Saudi Arabia, was married, appeared to be living 'American Dream,' co-workers say
Multiple victims reported in San Bernardino shooting
As the holiday gathering got underway Wednesday morning, Syed Farook joined dozens of his colleagues from San Bernardino Countys Public Health Department. Farook, a food inspector, seemed quiet during the early hours of the event, then vanished just as a group photo was about to be taken.
Shorty afterward, gunfire erupted at the Inland Regional Center where the employees filled a conference room. Within hours, law enforcement sources identified a man named Syed Farook as a suspect in the massacre and said he was shot to death in a gun battle with officers.
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Co-workers told The Times that they were shocked to hear Farooks name linked to the shooting. Two health department employees who were in the bathroom when the bullets began to fly said Farook was quiet and polite, with no obvious grudges.
They said Farook had traveled to Saudi Arabia and returned with a new wife he met online. The couple had a baby and appeared to be living the American dream, said Patrick Baccari, a fellow food inspector who shared a cubicle with Farook.
San Bernardino shooting live updates: Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik named as suspects in attack that killed 14
Baccari and Christian Nwadike said Farook, who worked with them for about three years, rarely started a conversation. But the tall, thin, young man with a full beard was well-liked and spent much of his time out in the field.
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They and other colleagues said Farook was a devout Muslim, but rarely discussed religion at work......
ww.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-syed-farook-had-traveled-to-saudi-arabia-married-appeared-to-live-american-dream-co-workers-say-20151202-story.html
flamingdem
(39,304 posts)?? well that certainly should set off alarm bells.
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)flamingdem
(39,304 posts)Just sounds too convenienr - maybe she turned him?
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)hedgehog
(36,286 posts)one of the Pillars of Islam.
trillion
(1,859 posts)I would say at most, its a random office shooting and not a terrorist plot. If he was into terror he sure had low sites for causing damage. I mean, get your coworkers sounds like a standard office shooting to me. I don't know what's up with the woman. Was she obeying him in some crazy obedient wife sense? Either way, another nut with a gun who shouldn't have had one.
2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)now he is quiet as a mouse. They are changing the story, or mistaken. I wonder?
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)flamingdem
(39,304 posts)trillion
(1,859 posts)he handles disputes. I don't think this shooting had anything to do with Islam.
flamingdem
(39,304 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,283 posts)... to, probably among other things, gain a spouse.
The bride was resplendent in camouflaged field-wear, with contrasting black bulletproof vest and balaclava, her train constructed of gleaming linked cartridges. The exchange of rifles at the altar was a sweet touch.
Livin' the dream ..
flamingdem
(39,304 posts)However the neighbors would scratch their heads when they heard them at night in the throes of passion screaming Alahu Akbar!
951-Riverside
(7,234 posts)"OMG! Whaaat? No Way! I left for lunch and this happened? Noooo! OMG!"
Once you consider that
1. His co-workers threw a baby shower for them (which means they were on good terms)
2. It happened just before lunch/break time (Perfect alibi)
3. They wore masks (They didn't intend on anyone finding out who they were)
4. They got caught trying to return home (Why would they try to return home instead of committing other attacks or trying to flee?)
I think its very possible he was trying to do this except, he never factored in that people would notice that he left just before the shooting and witnesses would see the car he left in.
flamingdem
(39,304 posts)The answer will reveal if they thought they'd get away with it.
951-Riverside
(7,234 posts)http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/12/02/multiple-victims-reported-shot-in-san-bernardino/
Nay
(12,051 posts)2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)trillion
(1,859 posts)and all. That's not any of the office shooters I've heard of. There's nothing adding up about these people doing this. Even having multiple people involved in the shooting when it's just a disgruntled employee. This isn't right. Her having a baby and doing this isn't right. This is so far off than any normal shooting - office or anything else.
951-Riverside
(7,234 posts)The masks, dropping the baby off then saying that they were going to the dentist, leaving work around lunch time, trying to return home, not attacking other locations.
You would think that if they intended for this to be a one way deal, they would just show up at his worksite unmasked, kill a bunch of people, leave, attack another location and die in a shootout with law enforcement.
TexasMommaWithAHat
(3,212 posts)but it was moved up to get his co-workers at this party.
But why?
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)never fails. But we continue to make them rich, rich, rich!
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)nitpicker
(7,153 posts)San Bernardino shooting: Police kill two suspects after hunt
14 minutes ago(snip)
Mr Burguan said that Farook had left the event - which was possibly a holiday party for employees or a meeting - "under some circumstances that were described as angry," and returned with Malik.
Earlier, the FBI said it was not ruling out the possibility of terrorism but the situation was still being investigated.
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Police have identified Syed Rizwan Farook, a 28-year-old US-born male, and Tashfeen Malik, a 27-year-old woman, as the two dead suspects. Relatives have said the two were married.
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Fourteen people were killed, and police have not released any details. However it appears that those targeted were colleagues of Farook's in the San Bernardino county public health department, who were holding a work event at the centre's conference facilities.
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Police said they had "no information on motivation," but Farook had earlier left the work event after an angry incident. He returned with Malik, both heavily armed, to carry out the massacre. Terrorism and a workplace dispute are among the possible motives.
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For this city, it has been a day of panic and chaos, as people struggle to cope with America's worst mass shooting in three years. By one measure though, there has been more than one mass shooting on average every day this year. In that respect this was just another day in the United States of America.
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2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)due to Isis? And if this was a Christmas party, then perhaps it would make more sense for him to retaliate on their Christian holiday after giving him racist shit over Isis and his religion?
Also it sounds like they thought they would get away with it (giving child to grandmother for the day) and maybe attending the party was his alibi?
One post mentioned they had cameras on them. If that is so, then maybe they were auditioning for Isis or something like that?
Proserpina
(2,352 posts)to risk her infant daughter's future like that, no matter what tale hubby told her.
Still, the kid may be better off without those parents.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)any time now.
Renew Deal
(81,803 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)It's not like women aren't capable of jihad.
Elmergantry
(884 posts)What happened to the much vaunted vetting process?
TexasBushwhacker
(20,044 posts)daleo
(21,317 posts)Better invade Iraq, again.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Bush & Saudi driven terror. Once again.
The2ndWheel
(7,947 posts)We should do the same to Saudi Arabia to really see a show.
2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)Could have been elsewhere. But we are obviously on the right track.
TexasMommaWithAHat
(3,212 posts)Ugh
I can't believe she left her baby to do this.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Isn't this the RW vision for America?
A government of theology ruled by men, & created out of the threat of such terror.
If only Jeb! could be King the transition would be so much easier.
TexasMommaWithAHat
(3,212 posts)1800's? 1900's?
I'm pretty sure my mom would not have done this - nor my aunts, my grandmothers, or any other woman I know.
Ha My grandmother ruled the roost!
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)This is power & men under the guise of religion.
Its not about a god. Its more like one great big cult.
Once again, the Saudi ideology is shoved on America.
Who invited them in?
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)in NY Harbor. The one with the torch.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)GWBush, " We're fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here".
Saudis & the Bush's. Making things happen.
Our pretty green lady in NY Harbor welcomes all.
The Bush/Saudi connection created the terrorism we know today, whether its ISIS or RW KKKristian terrorists. The reason why is another Thread in itself.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)the Middle East since long before Bush was President.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)..their personal goals.
Starting with 9-11 and the Bush manipulation of our entry into the IRAQ War & all that event has brought us today.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)terrorism did not start with bush and the saudis. Yes, getting involved in Iraq was the biggest foreign policy blunder of my lifetime but that's not where all this started.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Funded, & opened the door to the upheaval in the ME. This is what brought about terrorist groups we see operating today.
I believe if we could clearly follow the money, both the Bush' & the Saudis hands are still a part of the existence of religuous extremists. Whether ME religions or US RW Christians, the use of fear to control is their m.o.
However the build up to make extremist terrorism a daily occurrance began years ago. Bush/Saudi just made it a reality. 9-11 and beyond
They did nothing to control or prevent the creation or spread of terrorism. They gave it legs to run on.
Of course, its a far deeper story than I can elaborate on here.
ButterflyBlood
(12,644 posts)There were female members of the Weathermen and SLA, and I know of at least one woman who was arrested for anti-abortion violence.
TexasMommaWithAHat
(3,212 posts)Like 9/ll.
kydo
(2,679 posts)She wasn't the first female US terrorist foreign born are born here.....
Here is one that hated Mondays .....
A reporter got through to Spencer after the shooting while she was still in the house. The reporter asked Spencer why she carried out the shooting. She answered: "I don't like Mondays",[2] which inspired Bob Geldof to write the Boomtown Rats' song by that name.[3] Spencer later said she did not recall making the remark.
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TexasMommaWithAHat
(3,212 posts)Anyone who lived through the Patty Hearst days is fully aware that we have had female terrorists.
I simply didn't make myself very clear.
kydo
(2,679 posts)And I lived through Patty Hearst too ... Not that it matters ... But I still can only take what is written as the question not what one was thinking when writing. That's like a crazy doctor in line at a chicken joint that's being held up and he thinks, I think the gun doesn't want me he wants the person behind the counter, and so thus he does nothing, well except maybe tell the others to jump the guy with the gun ....
starroute
(12,977 posts)Jerad Miller and his wife, Amanda, loved super villains.
They walked about their Las Vegas apartment complex dressed as Batman villains, the Joker and his vampy sidekick Harley Quinn. Amanda Miller's Facebook profile photo shows the pair in their Joker costumes.
Police say it was a window into the couple's troubled lives. Underneath their painted faces, they were a homicidal rage against authority.
The couple opened fire Sunday in a Las Vegas pizza restaurant and killed two police officers, draping one body with a "don't tread on me" flag and a swastika. On another, they pinned a menacing note, authorities said Monday.