San Bernardino Attackers Radicalized Two Years Before Shooting
- FBI director tells lawmakers couple discussed jihad in 2013
- No direct ties uncovered with foreign terrorist groups
Law enforcement officials continue their investigation around the Ford SUV vehicle that was the scene where suspects of the shooting at the Inland Regional Center were killed on Dec. 4, 2015, in San Bernardino, California.
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The California couple who fatally shot 14 people last week in what authorities are calling a terror attack had become radicalized and discussed martyrdom at least two years ago, FBI Director James Comey said Wednesday.
Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, “were radicalized quite a long time before their attack,” Comey said in testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee. The couple talked about jihad and martyrdom in online communications as early as late 2013, well before they were engaged and married, he said.