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’
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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.
