Daily Mail: Party massacre wife pledged allegiance to ISIS: Pakistani new mother Facebooked her support for terror group AND its fanatical leader before she and her husband slaughtered 14 people
* Investigators say Tashfeen Malik, 27, left a post on a Facebook page using an alias pledging allegiance to ISIS and its leader al-Baghdadi
* Malik moved to Saudi Arabia from Pakistan about 25 years ago but returned home to attend Bahauddin Zakariya University where she studied to become a pharmacist
* Malik and her husband, 28-year-old Syed Farook, were killed in a gun battle with police after a mass shooting
* Police said 14 died and 21 were injured after suspects opened fire at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino
* Farook reportedly clashed with Messianic Jewish co-worker Nicholas Thalasinos, who was named as one of the victims, over religion
* Lawyers for the Farook family said he was subjected to a series of disparaging comments about his traditional Muslim appearance
* David Chesley, attorney acting for Farook's family, questioned accounts of massacre and whether information released by police and FBI was accurate
* Farook brought his wife to the US on a 90-day K-1 fiancee visa and that she passed counterterrorism screening as part of her vetting
* Farook's brother-in-law Farhan Khan said he was a 'bad person' but not a religious ra
* Farook's older brother, Syed Raheel Farook, is a decorated Navy veteran honored for his role in the war on terror
* Police and federal agents searched a Redlands home, seizing 5,000 bullets, 12 pipe bombs and tools to make IEDs
* Investigators said Farook was in touch by phone and via social media with international terrorism subjects
* His friends said Farook, who had been known to pray every day, abruptly stopped going to his mosque three weeks ago
San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik allegedly posted a pledge of allegiance to ISIS and its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, shortly before unleashing a deadly attack on a holiday party on Wednesday, investigators revealed this morning.
A US law enforcement official said the social media post was made on an account bearing a different name and was later deleted. This information provides the strongest evidence to date that the rampage may have been a terrorist attack.
Another official speaking on condition of anonymity said Malik expressed 'admiration' for al-Baghdadi and said there was no sign that anyone affiliated with ISIS communicated back to her and no signs of any operational instructions being passed on to her.
FBI agents have been combing through cellphones and a computer hard drive left behind by the couple in their Redlands, California, rental home to try to establish a motive for the killings.
WNU Editor: The position from the White House remains the same .... "we cannot say definitely that this is terrorism" .... Obama: 'It's possible' San Bernardino shooting was terrorism (CNN).
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San Bernardino killers erased digital presence day before the attacks -- Washington Times
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