ISIS Thread

It comes as no surprise. I mean - for how long have various crazy people around the globe pledging their allegiance to Daesh (or Al-Quaeda, for that matter) and commiting atrocities?
 
bearfan said:
Here we go again

The female shooter in Wednesday's massacre in San Bernardino, Calif., pledged allegiance to the head of the Islamic State, multiple reports say — providing the clearest evidence yet that the attackers were linked to Islamic terrorist groups.

Citing three officials familiar with the investigation on Friday, CNN reported that the female shooter, Tashfeen Malik, posted a message on Facebook supporting ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. NBC News, the AP and the New York Times also reported that Malik posted a statement of support for the leader.
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It's a link, but has ISIS themselves taken credit? I mean, they had no delay in taking credit for Paris.
 
The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is lauding the San Bernardino, Calif., gunmen as “supporters” of the group, but stopping short of claiming full affiliation.

The terror group made the proclamation on its official radio station Saturday, CNN reported.
 
It sounds more like these are people who acted without the aid of ISIS to emulate their works, like the two attacks we had in Canada last year. Unfortunately, these people had access to far more deadly weapons, or had more means to purchase them due to not being homeless drifters.

Which means this is domestic Islamic terrorism, like the Fort Hood shooter.
 
Sounds like the woman is a reasonably recent arrival .. and at least speculation is she converted him.
 
bearfan said:
Sounds like the woman is a reasonably recent arrival .. and at least speculation is she converted him.
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Certainly possible, or that he ended up hanging out with the wrong people when he visited Saudi Arabia. But also possible that he just didn't like what he saw before he went there, met someone who agreed...hard to say considering they are both dead. But putting together a detailed history of how the man and woman became radicalized might help us find other people experiencing signs of radicalization.
 
Still a lot of questions waiting to be answered. I still find theory that there was more than one motive highly believable.
 
Sorry, should have made it clear, that's one of the safer reports. Worst thing on the Telegraph site is a video of the suspect being tasered. It's Twitter and Google that are turning up all kinds of images at the moment. Thankfully nobody was killed.

Safest report:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35018789
 
FBI Director James Comey said Wednesday that Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, began scheming to carry out a terror attack long before they were engaged and before she moved to the United States on a fiancee visa last year.

Meanwhile, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said Malik may have given false information on her visa application.

“These two killers were radicalized for quite a long time,” Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday regarding the couple behind last week’s San Bernardino shootings that killed 14 people. “Our investigation to date shows that they were radicalized before they started courting or dating each other online, and as early as the end of 2013, were talking to each other about jihad and martyrdom before they became engaged and married and were living in the U.S.”

Comey added, “We believe they were inspired by foreign organizations. We are working very hard to see if anyone else was involved in assisting, equipping or helping them. And did they have other plans?”

Comey’s announcement about the couple’s past takes the investigation in a new direction, suggesting that Farook, a U.S. citizen, purposely traveled to Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to find a partner to help him carry out what became the worst foreign terrorist attack since Sept. 11, 2001.

He said that according to information collected so far, Malik "was radicalized before she connected with the other killer.”

Asked if the courtship and marriage might have been purposely arranged by a foreign terror organization to get two terror operatives into the U.S. to pull off the attack, Comey said, “I don’t know the answer to that yet.”

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-san-bernardino-shooters-preplanning-20151209-story.html
 
Obama said IS has lost 40% of the territory it once controlled in Iraq. And that IS had not had a single successful ground operation in either Syria or Iraq since the summer. He listed the militant group's leaders who had been targeted and killed. Using another acronym for the group, he said: "The point is, Isil leaders cannot hide and our next message to them is simple: 'You are next.'"
 
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