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Why is it With All the Resources Devoted to Domestic Spying every time a Terror Issue Come up Our Public Officials Seem as surprised as we are?

San Bernardino Terror Couple Entering US

Why were Tashfeen Malik, and Syed Rizwan Farook not on any kind of a watch list ?

 Evidence Continues to pile up that they were Radicalized for some time , where was the NSA, FBI, DHS and so on?

Welcome to America: New Photo Shows San Bernardino Terror Couple Entering US

By BRIAN ROSS
MATTHEW MOSK
MICHELE MCPHEE
MEGAN CHRISTIE
JOSH MARGOLIN

Dec 7, 2015, 6:55 AM ET

Federal officials around the world today are urgently trying to track the backgrounds and contacts of the newly-married parents of a baby girl who killed 14 people in California last week in a suspected ISIS-inspired attack, as a new photograph emerged showing the future terrorists entering the U.S. together for the first time last year.

The image, apparently taken as the couple moved through customs in Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport on July 27, 2014 and obtained exclusively by ABC News, shows Tashfeen Malik clad in all black looking directly into the camera as the taller Syed Rizwan Farook stands behind her, black bearded and with a blank expression. It is the most recent photograph of the two to be made public.

U.S. officials previously said that Farook, a U.S. citizen originally from Chicago, traveled to Saudi Arabia in July 2014 and returned less than two weeks later with Malik in tow. Malik, a Pakistani who officials said spent much of her life in Saudi Arabia, entered the U.S. on a so-called “fiancé” visa, which allowed Farook to petition for her entry ahead of marriage. The two were married in the eyes of U.S. law in California just a month after their arrival, although some officials have said they could have been married earlier abroad.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/america-photo-shows-terror-couple-entering-us/story?id=35615829

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Tashfeen Malik’s transformation into a “jihadi bride”

Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik

From Westernized daughter of a rich family to burka-wearing jihadi bride: Split from relatives preceded Tashfeen Malik’s transformation into a ‘radicalized’ killer who swore allegiance to ISIS as she murdered 14

ISIS announced on radio that the couple were followers of the terror group  
Photos and details about the woman behind the San Bernardino massacre, Tashfeen Malik, 27, shed more light about what happened before shooting
It was revealed she wore a burka and didn’t speak to male relatives
Family members in native Pakistan said she used to wear Western dress, but switched to conservative clothing after going to university
Relatives said she also began posting extremist material on Facebook and spoke in Arabic to a mystery caller late at night
Other said family were influential and were known to have extremist links
Investigators say Malik, 27, left a post on a Facebook page using an alias pledging allegiance to ISIS and its leader al-Baghdadi  
President Obama insisted today that the US ‘will not be terrorized’
See our full news coverage of ISIS at www.dailymail.co.uk/isis

By CHRIS PLEASANCE and KELLY MCLAUGHLIN and SNEJANA FARBEROV and KHALEDA RAHMAN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and BEN ASHFORD AND RUTH STYLES IN SAN BERNARDINO FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

PUBLISHED: 10:23 EST, 5 December 2015 | UPDATED: 19:12 EST, 5 December 2015

New details have emerged about the radicalization of a Pakistani woman who along with her American husband killed 14 people in San Bernardino California and pledged allegiance to ISIS.

Tashfeen Malik who moved to the US last year when she married Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, had spent most of her life in Saudi Arabia and relatives say she began to be radicalized in college.

Relatives of Malik in Pakistan, estranged from their wealthy family members who live in Saudi Arabia, said she used to wear Western-style clothing but later switched to more traditional garments such as a burka, which covers the the entire body.

Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3347264/Relatives-burqa-wearing-San-Bernadino-shooter-pledged-allegiance-ISIS-killing-14-say-Pakistan-born-jihadi-bride-used-wear-Western-dress-conservative-three-years-ago.html#ixzz3tXtWJ5PI

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San Bernardino attack sparks new fears

Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik

By Julian Hattem and Jordan Fabian – 12/05/15 06:00 AM EST

This week’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., is prompting new fears about terror attacks inside the United States, and shows the limits of federal efforts to halt all instances of extremist violence.

The government has devoted massive resources to halting such attacks from Islamic militants in the years since 9/11, but the very nature of “lone wolf” radicals makes them nearly impossible to prevent.

Wednesday’s episode underscored the unpredictability of the threat facing the country, analysts said. A recently married couple with a newborn baby, no history of radicalization and family connections to a decorated U.S. military veteran apparently carried out what is being investigated as the deadliest attack on American soil since 9/11.

The shooting will inflame anxiety about terrorism from groups including the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) — worries that had already spiked following last month’s attacks in Paris in which 130 people were killed. Yet the government’s ability to respond may be limited.

“The lone wolf problem is so incredibly difficult to predict, because anyone can, again, wake up in the morning and pledge allegiance to ISIS without ever having direct contact with a terrorist, and then go out and commit an act of violence in the name of that group,” said Rick Nelson, a former official with the National Security Council and National Counterterrorism Center who is now a senior non-resident associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

“How do you stop that?”

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/262196-san-bernardino-attack-sparks-new-fears

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Officials: San Bernardino shooter apparently radicalized, in touch with terror subjects

San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department

By Greg Botelho, Kyung Lah and Ben Brumfield, CNN

Updated 1:01 PM ET, Thu December 3, 2015 | Video Source: CNN

San Bernardino, California (CNN)[Breaking news update at 12:59 p.m. ET]

The San Bernardino massacre shooters had extensive amounts of ammunition and in their home at the time they were killed in a shootout with police, the city’s police chief said Thursday.

San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said that Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, fired between 65 and 75 rifle rounds during the shooting at a county health department holiday party, then unloaded about that number in a later confrontation with police.

Fourteen died in the holiday party carnage and 21 more were wounded, according to Burguan. He said two police officers suffered injuries in the subsequent shootout.

Authorities later found thousands more rounds of ammunition at the couple’s residence, 12 pipe bombs and hundreds of tools that “could be used to construct IEDs or pipe bombs,” the chief said.

Burguan said “we still don’t have a motive,” but speculated that the couple may have been planning more carnage.

“They were equipped … and they could have done another attack,” the chief said.

https://www.cnn.com/2015/12/03/us/san-bernardino-shooting/index.html