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Home Front: WoT
Feds looking into a $28k deposit made into Farook's bank account before the shooting
2015-12-08
[Daily Mail] Investigators are now looking into whether the $28,000 transaction was a loan, since Farook earned $53,000 a year as an environmental health inspector for San Bernardino County, according to Fox News.

WebBank.com, a Utah-based company, describes itself on its website as ' a leading provider of national consumer and commercial private-label and bank card financing programs' on a nationwide basis. Farook converted $10,000 of the $28,000 to cash on or about November 20, and withdrew the money from a Union Bank in San Bernardino.
Any bank reporting to the feds on these transations ?
In the days leading up to the massacre, at least three transfers of $5,000 appeared to go to Farook's mother.
Would that would be the same 'mother' who was an active member of the local champter of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), lived with Farook and slept on ammo crates and pipe fittings ?
Your average cocaine dealer gets more scrutiny at the banks these days...
Katherine Russell, wife of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, pressure cooker redux anyone? Source of the explosives used in the Boston Bombing was reportedly legally obtained fireworks. No mention made yet of the type and source of the San Bernadino explosives.
Posted by:Besoeker

#3  Another possibility: Word got back to the pair's handlers that there was danger of compromise of a larger, overall plan. Farooq and his gun moll then were used to both deflect from and seal-off the larger operation.
Posted by: Pappy   2015-12-08 11:22  

#2  Bingo! That's why I continue to search the open source media for something more on the contents of the pipe bombs.

Similar to the Tsarnaev bros and Nadal Hasan, Farook may have gone kinetic without warning. The workplace attack may have been a strategically planned default.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-12-08 09:35  

#1  I wonder if the $28 k was sourced by one of our government agencies as part of a sting of some kind? Perhaps Farook figured it out and that's why the sudden, second-tier terrorist attack instead of something more 'spectacular' that it looks like was planned.
Posted by: Glenmore   2015-12-08 09:25  

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