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(101,856 posts) Fri Dec 4, 2015, 12:05 PM Dec 2015

San Bernardino shooting: Attacker pledged allegiance to ISIS, officials say [View all]

(CNN)Investigators think that as the San Bernardino, California, attack was happening, female shooter Tashfeen Malik posted a pledge of allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Facebook, three U.S. officials familiar with the investigation told CNN.

Malik's post was made on an account with a different name, one U.S. official said. The officials did not explain how they knew Malik made the post.

A law enforcement official said it appeared that Wednesday's attack -- which left 14 people dead and 21 wounded before the two attackers, Malik and her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, were killed in a shootout with police -- may have been inspired by ISIS. But none of the officials said that ISIS directed or ordered the attack.

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/04/us/san-bernardino-shooting/index.html

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San Bernardino shooting: Attacker pledged allegiance to ISIS, officials say [View all] DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2015 OP

wether there is a connection or not they sure will try to find one or make one saturnsring Dec 2015 #1

Who is 'they'? B2G Dec 2015 #2

maybe, yes and no saturnsring Dec 2015 #4

It seems more like ISIS inspired than ISIS directed... DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2015 #6

Watch the refugee debate explode B2G Dec 2015 #8

The solution is above my pay grade... DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2015 #10

You are absolutely right. still_one Dec 2015 #30

Spot on. NT Lonusca Dec 2015 #40

ISIS has been calling for precisely this. In their theology, declaring a caliphate Yo_Mama Dec 2015 #28

Oh good grief. Codeine Dec 2015 #5

I would genuinely like to find a middle ground , somewhere... DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2015 #9

Agreed. Codeine Dec 2015 #11

While we're at it, we could interface with the rest of the Christian community KamaAina Dec 2015 #19

"Look over there!!" nt Codeine Dec 2015 #24

But there is a rather large difference, I think, that ... Whiskeytide Dec 2015 #39

"The closest thing you might see would be calls for violence against medical centers" KamaAina Dec 2015 #42

And that's just the most recent... Whiskeytide Dec 2015 #47

exactly Elmergantry Dec 2015 #12

It's bizarre to me that we don't do that already. Codeine Dec 2015 #16

Not that I am aware of. Elmergantry Dec 2015 #33

I am not nearly as worried about having my dome lobbed off... DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2015 #17

Sadly, Muslims who do not accept their theology are their worst enemies. Yo_Mama Dec 2015 #29

Surprise surprise Oneironaut Dec 2015 #3

On motherfuckin' FACEBOOK? alcibiades_mystery Dec 2015 #7

She posted DURING the attack B2G Dec 2015 #13

Celebrating Islamic Jihad? There's an app for that! nt Codeine Dec 2015 #14

Lol. Wouldn't surprise me at this point. nt B2G Dec 2015 #15

Not much chance if her posting ... GeorgeGist Dec 2015 #49

And I get irritated when my wife interrupts lunch Codeine Dec 2015 #18

ROFL alcibiades_mystery Dec 2015 #22

"The officials did not explain how they knew Malik made the post." KamaAina Dec 2015 #20

They have her computer and cell phone B2G Dec 2015 #21

That made me lol pintobean Dec 2015 #23

I know, right? B2G Dec 2015 #25

They destroyed their hard drives and cell phones before the attack. Yo_Mama Dec 2015 #31

"Destroyed" doesn't equate to unrecoverable information. nt B2G Dec 2015 #38

If you physically smack them to pieces, it does. One report said they found pieces. Yo_Mama Dec 2015 #46

Now it's terrorism. It's going to be a bumpy ride. Agnosticsherbet Dec 2015 #26

It is what it is, but I disagree with your assessment on how it will "suck the left down with it" still_one Dec 2015 #32

The US is not Paris. And check out the French "State of Emergency" Agnosticsherbet Dec 2015 #34

I wasn't referring to the French reaction, but the U.S. reaction after the Paris incident. There still_one Dec 2015 #35

That was Paris. An attack here is going to have political fallout. Agnosticsherbet Dec 2015 #37

That is why it is incumbent upon us to come up with a responsible response. DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2015 #43

Somewhere between having another Tequila Sunrise and an angry mob with pitchforks Agnosticsherbet Dec 2015 #44

My fear is that the GO(PU) will successfully exploit these fears... DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2015 #45

They are already jumping on who will be the best Agnosticsherbet Dec 2015 #48

Can't be true. Obama said we were safe from such an attack Township75 Dec 2015 #27

So this is Obama's fault now? Blue_Tires Dec 2015 #36

Who is blaming him Township75 Dec 2015 #41