Posted on 12/04/2015 5:58:11 AM PST by Citizen Zed
Mass murderer Syed Rizwan Farook spent time in terror hotbed Pakistan just last year and used social media to communicate with foreign and domestic extremists being monitored by the FBI, sources said Thursday.
"It has all the hallmarks of terrorism," a federal source told The Post of the holiday-party massacre that left 14 dead and 21 wounded in San Bernardino, Calif., on Wednesday.
Authorities are investigating whether Farook, 28, was radicalized by international terror suspects with whom he had been in touch, another fed source said.
In particular, the feds are looking at three men who "were in phone contact" with Farook and his Pakistan-born wife, Tashfeen Malik, 27, in the days before the meticulously planned attack.
The couple's preparation included renting a Ford Expedition that was due back the same day they stormed a conference room at the Inwood Regional Center, where the victims included Jewish and Christian employees.
The killers concealed their murderous mission by erasing email accounts, ditching their computer hard drives and smashing their cellphones, sources said.
Farook and Malik were gunned down by cops in a shootout on a quiet San Bernardino street a few miles from the bloodbath.
The couple had kept a low profile before the attack, but there were several red flags in Farook's past - including the suspicious trip to Pakistan, a nation ranked fourth on the Global Terrorism Index. Only Nigeria, Afghanistan and Iraq are ranked higher.
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Who else do we know who made a trip to Pakistan? Hint: he’s been terrorizing Americans since 2008.
NSA too busy monitoring Free Republic posters. Can’t bother with radical Muzzies wishing death and destruction on the US
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am I the only one who thinks ANYONE who communicates with foreign and domestic extremists being monitored by the FBI... should ALSO be monitored by the FBI !!!!!
Well the NSA captures all cell phone traffic, right?
Or is that only for law-abiding US citizens...
As computer software programmer I can tell you this. It is a ‘needle in a haystack’ problem.
And the bigger you make the haystack, the harder it is to find the needle.
Gather ALL info, as it is claimed the NSA is doing (THANK YOU SNOWDEN!!) they are making a very big haystack.
And the most useful thing about this only happens after the fact. Once you find a needle it is easy to look at things related to where you found it.
Now that they know who he is they MAY be able to go back and search the data for his relations.
But this is the only way this much information is usedful- after the fact.
There is a huge downside though. You spend a ton of resources building this haystack, that has very little use until after the fact.
It is also able to be used in nefarious ways. Critical of Obama or idiot democrats in general? Let’s have a look see at what you’ve been doing online...
So they’ll be blaming Snowden
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Liberals are ALWAYS blaming someone else.
For WHAT exactly are US national security personnel paid?
Victims of the attack ought to bring a class action suit against the morons who are SUPPOSED to bird-dog this stuff and DIDN'T!
There is no needle in a haystack, there is a haystack that is called Islam.
That’s not a social network. It’s a C3I node.
Vetting is useless. These people are feckless check takers and porn watchers.
The government EMPLOYS people on the terrorist watch list. Yeah, they watch them do terrorist attacks and then tell us how they were contacting some others on the watch list.
All we have to do is remove Islam from our midst.
Muslim = No go.
As long as we have the media and politicians ready and willing to tell all of the methods of surveillance and how we catch these perpetrators, vetting is useless.
When the people who are supposed to be watching the evil are the evil themselves or enabling it, there is nothing to do but protect yourself.
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