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Law enforcement may have investigated Farook a week before the attack.
[Weekly Standard] Law enforcement officials in San Bernardino and Los Angeles may have investigated Syed Farook one week before the shooting on the community development center on December 2, 2015, that left 14 dead and 17 injured, according to a review of police communications immediately following the attacks.Federal and local authorities have insisted that neither of the attackers had aroused suspicion before the assault earlier this month and that both Syed Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, were unknown to law enforcement and US intelligence. But conversations between law enforcement officials in the hours after the shootings leave a different impression. Farook is first identified by name at approximately 11:40am local time, just a half hour after the shooting began. The information came from a county worker, who noted that Farook had been acting nervous and left the holiday party twenty minutes before the shooting began. In a subsequent exchange at approximately 12:08pm the dispatcher addresses an officer nicknamed "Trav" upon hearing "Syed Farook." She says: "Reference that name, I believe one of the [garbled] was working that name up for something last week. I'll have to check." In a second exchange shortly after 12:20, another officer says of Farook: "I just got some info from that LAPD that they have information on one of your suspects. I heard that somebody was trying to INV that guy. Can you find out who I can give this information to?" A third exchange, two minutes later, follows: Officer 2: [garbled] I had received a call [garbled] that had some information that they had ran the guy or something last week and I was going to give it to your intel guys. Officer 1: Okay, that's what I was trying to get you to. If you're at the mobile command -- uh, what's your 20? Ok, so local LE 'ran' him. What then? Were they told to back off? Was he a 'person of interest' to the Feds, or part of something ongoing? I cannot accept the statements that this fellow, his wife, and family were not on someone's radar. Apparently Steve Hayes can't either. Posted by: Besoeker 2015-12-08 |
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