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Tuesday 8 December 2015
FBI: Killers were ‘radicalized,’ took target practice
AMANDA LEE MYERS In addition, authorities David Bowdich, assistant director of the FBI’s Los Angeles office, center, talks to the media as he
JUSTIN PRITCHARD found 19 pipes in the cou- is joined by San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon, left, and San Bernardino Police Chief
Associated Press ple’s home that could be Jarrod Berguan, during a news conference, Monday, Dec. 7, 2015, in San Bernardino, Calif. The
SAN BERNARDINO, Califor- turned into bombs, Bow- FBI said Monday that the husband and wife who carried out the San Bernardino shootings had
nia (AP) — The husband dich said. participated in target practice, including once within days of the attack that killed 14 people.
and wife who carried out The couple opened fire
the San Bernardino shoot- with assault rifles Wednes- (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
ings had been radicalized day on a holiday luncheon
and had taken part in tar- for Farook’s colleagues. said in a prime-time ad- cent people.” per La Stampa that his son
get practice, once within Husband and wife were dress Sunday night that the Farook’s estranged father, shared the ideology of the
days of the attack that killed hours later in a shoot- attack was an “act of ter- also named Syed Farook, Islamic State group and
killed 14 people, the FBI out with police. rorism designed to kill inno- told the Italian newspa- was fixated on Israel.q
said Monday. In a chilling twist, authori-
“We believe both were ties on Monday said that a
radicalized and had been year before the rampage,
for some time,” said David Farook’s co-workers un-
Bowdich, assistant direc- derwent “active-shooter”
tor of the FBI’s Los Angeles training in the very room
office. But the said investi- where he and his wife
gators are still trying to es- opened fire. It was not im-
tablish when, where and mediately clear whether
by whom they were influ- Farook attended the 2014
enced. training session, county
He also said Syed Farook, spokeswoman Felisa Car-
28, and his wife, Tashfeen dona said.
Malin, 29, had taken target “Unfortunately, the room
practice at ranges within just didn’t provide a whole
the Los Angeles metropoli- lot of protection,” said Cor-
tan area, with one session win Porter, assistant county
held within days of last health director.
week’s rampage. President Barack Obama
Syrian-born US citizen charged with smuggling to militants
BEN NUCKOLS According to an indictment cial branch there, federal and returned to Los Ange- that al-Baroudi had been
unsealed Friday, Amin al- prosecutors said. In Febru- les the next month with only living in Saudi Arabia be-
Associated Press Baroudi personally brought ary 2013, according to the two checked bags, pros- fore returning to the United
the gear to Syria and ar- indictment, the 50-year-old ecutors said. Al-Baroudi, States. Capozzolo did not
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia ranged other shipments be- man boarded a flight from a former resident of Irvine, explain what al-Baroudi
tween 2011 and 2013. The Los Angeles to Turkey with California, was arrested was doing in Saudia Ara-
(AP) — A Syrian-born U.S. goods went to the insurgent 14 pieces of checked lug- Thursday at Washington bia, beyond mentioning
group Ahrar el-Sham, which gage weighing more than Dulles International Airport, that he was treated for a
citizen has been charged aims to establish an Islamic 600 pounds (272 kilograms) court documents show. His heart condition there, or
state in Syria and fights total. He brought the goods attorney, Anthony Capoz- detail the circumstances of
with smuggling rifle scopes, alongside al-Qaida’s offi- across the border to Syria zolo, said in court Monday his client’s return trip.q
night-vision goggles and
other military-style gear
from the United States to
Islamic militants in his home
country.
