{"id":20324,"date":"2015-12-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/fbi-looks-for-militant-links-to-shooters\/"},"modified":"2015-12-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T00:00:00","slug":"fbi-looks-for-militant-links-to-shooters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/fbi-looks-for-militant-links-to-shooters\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI looks for militant links to shooters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Tim Reid and Lisa Baertlein<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SAN BERNARDINO<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>The couple accused of killing 14 people in Southern California had more than 6000 rounds of ammunition and a dozen pipe bombs, as authorities seek to determine if the pair had links to Islamic militant groups.<\/h3>\n<p>Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, who was described as his wife and mother of his six-month-old daughter, were killed in a shootout with police five hours after Wednesday&#8217;s massacre at the Inland Regional Center social services agency in the city of San Bernardino.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-one people were wounded in the shooting.<\/p>\n<h3>WATCH VIDEO OF THE SHOOTOUT TAKEN BY AN EYE WITNESS HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>(CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE)<\/strong><\/p>\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3\";  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/viralhog\/videos\/1640708322865166\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/viralhog\/videos\/1640708322865166\/\"><\/a><p>14 people were murdered when 28-year-old Syed Rizwan Farook and 27-year-old Tashfeen Malik shot up the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, CA on December 2nd, 2015. Joko Manullang took this incredible footage of the police shootout that ensued in his neighborhood in the moments following.<\/p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/viralhog\/\">ViralHog<\/a> on Thursday, December 3, 2015<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said at a Thursday news conference that a search of a townhouse in nearby Redlands believed used by Farook and Malik yielded flash drives, computers and mobile phones.<\/p>\n<p>Officials in Washington familiar with the investigation said so far there was no hard evidence of a direct connection between the shooters and any militant group abroad but that the electronics would be checked to see if the couple had been browsing on jihadist websites or social media.<\/p>\n<p>CNN, citing law enforcement sources, said Farook had been &#8220;radicalised&#8221; and had been in touch through telephone and social media with more than one international terrorism suspect who was being investigated by the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>Farook, a US citizen, was born in Illinois, the son of Pakistani immigrants, according to Hussam Ayloush, who heads the Los Angeles area chapter of the Muslim advocacy group Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).<\/p>\n<p>State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Malik had been granted a &#8220;fiancee visa&#8221; to come to the United States with Farook and that all applicants for the visa are fully screened.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses said Farook had been at the holiday party, left &#8211; possibly after a dispute with someone &#8211; returned with Malik and opened fire. Burguan said they sprayed the room with 65 to 70 rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Officials from President Barack Obama to Burguan said the attack may have been an act of terrorism but a motive had not yet been determined.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is possible that this was terrorist-related. But we don&#8217;t know,&#8221; Obama told reporters. &#8220;It is also possible that this was workplace-related.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said the FBI was taking over the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>David Bowdich, the FBI assistant director in Los Angeles, said the couple had entered the US in July 2014 after a trip that included Pakistan and perhaps other countries. Farook did not have a criminal record, Burguan said.<\/p>\n<p>Burguan said the couple had two assault-style rifles, two handguns and 1600 rounds of ammunition in their vehicle when they were killed. At the townhouse, police found another 4500 rounds, 12 pipe bombs and bomb-making equipment.<\/p>\n<p>The guns were legally purchased in the US, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Two of them were purchased by someone &#8220;associated with this investigation&#8221;, while the buyer of the other two was not linked to the investigation, she said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to sparking further debate on gun control laws, the latest mass slaying in the US came with much of the world on edge following the November 13 attacks in Paris by Islamic State militants that killed 130 people.<\/p>\n<p><em>-AAP<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/social-media-flooded-with-shocking-images-of-stereosonic-2015\">SOCIAL MEDIA FLOODED WITH IMAGES OF SHOCKING BEHAVIOUR AT STEREOSONIC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/syrian-rebel-blown-up-while-filming-video\">SYRIAN REBEL BLOWN UP WHILE FILMING MESSAGE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Reid and Lisa Baertlein SAN BERNARDINO The couple accused of killing 14 people in Southern California had more than 6000 rounds of ammunition and a dozen pipe bombs, as authorities seek to determine if the pair had links to Islamic militant groups. 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