Prosecutors say San Bernardino attacker’s friend had ties to group arrested for 2012 terror plot

The Washington Post ^ | June 1, 2016 | Mark Berman and Adam Goldman

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Federal authorities say they have discovered connections between a friend of the San Bernardino attacker charged with conspiring to carry out other attacks with him and a group of men arrested years earlier in California as part of a different plot.

This comes after the FBI had said in the weeks after the Dec. 2 rampage in San Bernardino, Calif., that they found no evidence of any ties between husband-and-wife attackers and a group of men arrested in 2012 and charged with plotting to travel to Afghanistan to kill American soldiers.

Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, opened fire inside a company holiday party in December, killing 14 people before dying hours later in a shootout with police. Authorities later said Malik pledged allegiance to the head of the self-proclaimed Islamic State in a posting on Facebook after the attack.

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Now, this is a shocking development!! /sarc

[BenLurkin]

The Democrat Party’s Christmas Party excuse isn’t holding up any better than their “internet video” lie.