Was Farook’s wife the ringleader of the attack?

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Allah:

Just something I’m thinking about after reading Ed’s post about her pledging allegiance to ISIS. Here’s an interesting exchange between CBS News and one of Farook’s co-workers:

Christian Nwadike was shocked when he learned the man accused of gunning down over a dozen people turned out to be the coworker he sat only feet from for five years. He said Farook was different after he returned from Saudi Arabia.

“Do you believe that he was radicalized?” Begnaud asked him.

“Yes, by the wife. I think he married a terrorist,” Nwadike said.

“He married a terrorist?”

“Yes,” Nwadike responded.

Maybe that’s just a colleague grasping for ways to reconcile how the guy he chatted with at the water cooler could turn around and commit mass murder. A terrorist was hiding in plain sight at work and no one figured it out? Why, he must have been manipulated. Cherchez la femme. The fact that Malik actually took time during the attack to post something about ISIS seems to prove, though, that she a willing co-conspirator. How willing? According to the LA Times, she was the one firing a semiautomatic rifle at cops from the back of the SUV when they were in pursuit after the attack. (So much for her lawyer’s theory that she was too small to wield a weapon like that.) She and Farook apparently met online in 2013 and then married last year, when he brought her from Saudi Arabia to the U.S. on a fiancee visa. Was that online relationship a love connection or a matter of recruiting an American citizen to bring a jihadi operative legally into the United States? (Remember, Farook was reportedly talking to at least one international terror suspect by phone or social media.) Then again, if this was all a ruse to position her inside the U.S. for an attack, why did they have a baby together?

It could be that it was a love connection and they both became radicals here. But who was the ringleader? Josh Marshall of TPM is wondering too:

Put more simply, what are the odds that of all the women living in Saudi Arabia in 2013, Farouk would have began a relationship and married one of the very small subset of women who not only subscribed to radical jihadist politics but was one prepared to participate in what amounted to a suicide mission? I’d say those are long odds.

Indeed this morning we have the first reports that either just before or just after the attacks, Malik made a pledge to ISIS leader al-Baghdadi on social media.

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This is anecdotal, so take it for what you like:
Back when the University of Cal at Irvine was allowing the organization, the Muslim Students Association, on campus I went to hear an anti-jihadi panel at that campus.
Two things happened during the panel:
1. The MSA tried to shout down all the panelists, which resulted in their being tossed from the meeting.
2. Members of the MSA followed every guest at the meeting out to their cars and took photographs of us and our car’s license plates, threatening us with retribution.

I ended up keeping in touch with a few Jewish students from that campus only because we were tied together in being threatened.
One of their stories was that freshman Muslim females (well assimilated girls, no head covers, many friends of all religions, etc.) were being sweet-talked by men from the MSA. Later some of these girls became ”strict” Muslims, covering completely (all but eyes) and planning weddings to FOREIGN Muslim males arranged by intros through the MSA.
This was YEARS ago, maybe 2002 or 3.

Anyway, because of this previous experience, the idea that some moderate American Muslim might be pressured into an arranged marriage to a radical foreigner is no surprise to me.

At least all the Syrian refugees are going to be researched and vetted before they are allowed in. Yep. We’re safe.

Farook’s wife used fake address to get visa
http://hotair.com/archives/2015/12/04/oh-by-the-way-the-san-bernardino-jihadi-got-a-visa-to-enter-the-u-s-by-providing-a-fake-address/