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2015-12-11 | ||
Years before he met his rifle-toting Pakistani bride, San Bernardino terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook plotted jihad with his boyhood next-door neighbor in 2012, it was revealed Wednesday. Farook’s pal, Islam convert Enrique Marquez, had by then purchased the firepower to pull off an attack: the very same two AR-15s that Farook and wife Tashfeen Malik would use last week in slaughtering 14 people at the Inland Regional Center. A specific target was weighed, CNN reported, citing two US officials, though they did not identify it. But Marquez, who is cooperating with the FBI, has told investigators that he got cold feet and the 2012 plot fell through, the network reported. Marquez, 24, has also told investigators that he had no advance knowledge of last week’s massacre.
“He said something along the lines of, ‘There’s a lot of Muslims in our own back yard, just ready to go haywire and attack,’ ” the friend, Michael G. Stone, told ABC. “And we didn’t think nothing of it. We just brushed it aside, you know. He was drunk, so I don’t know.” Immediately after last week’s shooting, Marquez took to Facebook to apologize. “I’m. Very sorry guys. It was a pleasure.” Marquez then checked himself into a mental institution, delaying the investigation. Federal agents raided Marquez’s home Saturday, but were only able to interview him Tuesday. He so far has not been charged.
As a teen, Marquez attended a nearby mosque with the Farook family and, by 2011, the two were radicalized, sources told CNN. The two friends would also wind up related by marriage. Marquez on Nov. 29, 2014, married Mariya Chernykh, the sister of Farook’s sister-in-law, Reuters reported, citing marriage documents. Gasser Shehati, Farook’s friend from a mosque, said Farook told him several years ago that Marquez had converted to Islam. Employees at a Walmart in Corona, Calif., said Marquez worked there as an asset protection and customer specialist for about six months, and was last seen there on Nov. 29. | ||
Posted by:Steve White |
#2 They "Intend" to take over the World,so what |
Posted by: Redneck Jim 2015-12-11 15:12 |
#1 Not surprising. Back during the Holy Land Foundation trial, it came out that the Muslim Brotherhood intended to take over this country. Holy Land Foundation, Mosques and other Islamic linkages to terror at the Counter Jihad Report. |
Posted by: JohnQC 2015-12-11 10:40 |