Posted by Tina
New information has been released about the Jihadi Couple who murdered Americans in San Bernardino and it isn’t very comforting. Turns out the couple were radicalized long before she traveled to America. Questions remain as to whether a terror organization arranged the marriage and supported their plans or if they were simply influenced through internet propaganda.
Farook’s father was worried about his son’s radical positions and tried to reassure his son by telling him not to “worry” because Israel would be gone in a couple of years. I have heard that family members are now on a watch list. The couple’s baby is with child services awaiting a determination about placement with a relative or the California system.
The Washington Post reports that the terror couple had been discussing jihad “at least two years before they opened fire in California,” according to the FBI.
“And online…as early as the end as 2013, they were talking to each other about jihad and martyrdom before they became engaged and then married and lived together in the United States,” Comey said during his testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
This radicalization appears to predate the rise of the Islamic State, the terrorist group that in 2014 formally declared a caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria.
Comey also told our representatives that ISIS is evading inspection by using technology to hide their communications.
The Daily Caller discovered that Syed Farook, who worked for five years for the Health and Human Services Department, inspected more than 40 schools in his job as a county health inspector. He had photos of one school on his cell phone and his access to the schools would afford him the opportunity to map out the schools and determine entrances and exits. He also inspected hotels and restaurants. Schools, hotels, and restaurants are all favored targets for Jihadis. The pipe bombs and ammunition found in their garage point to the likely possibility that the couple had big plans for these “soft targets.”
We need to get a handle on this mess. The President makes big pronouncements but his record of failure exposes him as an empty suit. leadership starts at the top and those under him reflect the lackadaisical approach to terror. He ties the hands of our military; I imagine other departments under him have been faced with tied hands and indecision as well.
There may be a realistic solution to this: Absolutely NO foreign person who cannot be extensively and thoroughly investigated is allowed admission, not even under a temporary visa or green card. This could effectively ban nearly all legal immigration of Islamic radicals, but — of course — does nothing to protect us from terrorists crossing the border with illegal immigrants.
But what about screening returning American citizens who may have become radical terrorists and established ties to terror organizations? I have no idea how to protect us from citizens who have become radicalized overseas, or already radicalized citizens who travel back and forth.
Obama’s policies seem to be to invite Islamic terrorism and do nothing to stem it.
From else where on the web—
“Marquez is related to the Farook family by marriage. Reuters, citing California marriage documents, reported that Marquez married Mariya Chernyk on Nov. 29 of last year, four months after Farook and Malik began their married life in the United States. Maria Cernyk’s sister, Tatiana, is married to Syed Raheel Farook, the shooter’s older brother. The documents show that Raheel Farook and Tatiana Cehernyk witnessed the marriage.
A law enforcement official told Fox News earlier Tuesday that investigators were looking closely at the possibility that Malik was a terror “operative” who had been radicalized before she came to the United States in July 2014. The official said that authorities were also looking at whether Malik’s family had any links to Islamic terrorism, noting that family ties are the “number one” way jihadist groups recruit new members.
Malik was one of just 519 Pakistanis allowed into the country last year on a K-1, or fiancee visa. Her path to the United States has raised warning flags on the U.S. government’s immigration vetting practices after she was identified as one of two attackers.” foxnews
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Well, well, well. IMO what emerges is the pattern I had suggested concerning Malik. IMO she was an operative of some jihadi group or other before she married Farooq. IMO the marriage was either arranged by the group specifically to find a path into the US for her or she recognized in this doofus Farooq character a golden opportunity to marry a “magic carpet” that would get her through American border controls.
Once in the States she and he began to plan for their own bloody apotheosis (perhaps an inappropriate term for a carefully planned act of shahada). They amassed equipment, and avoided having Farooq’s name and address on the paperwork for the rifle sales. They worked on shooting skills at local ranges. They planned a specific operation and then called it off because of counter terorist operations in California. Do we really doubt that she was the leader in this personal jihad?
And then, pilgrims, we have the apparent existence of what amounts to a group of jihadis or jihadi supporters and sympathizers in that part of California and possibly in surrounding states. The money loan thing in Utah is intriguing. Are there no loan companies in San Bernardino? Marquez married a relative of Farooq and had at least toyed with the idea of conversion to Islam. Farooq’s kinfolk claim to be as innocent as Bambi and his mommy. Are we really supposed to believe all the baloney about this pair having acted alone and without support? Really?
IMO this was a well run infiltration of the US homeland. How many more are there in existence across the country?
SECDEF Carter just told the senate that the great majority of people in the recent refugee flows are young men of military age. This truth has been ignored by the sentimentalist media in their search for heart wrenching images of little girls. Carter also pointed out that only about half the “refugees” are Syrians. The rest are from all over the Islamic World.
I certainly hope that Marquez will be prosecuted as a co-conspirator and accessory before the fact to murder. pl
link—
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2015/12/httpwwwfoxnewscomus20151209investigators-believe-syed-farook-planned-attack-prior-to-san-bernardino.html
Not a smidgen of “rigorous vetting” . . . . .
🙂 …it’s always good to turn-in with a smile on your face. Thanks.