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Elvis » Thu Jan 26, 2017 3:44 pm wrote:And from August 1, 2016, WaPo again, this time Adam Goldman and Mark Berman:

The Orlando police posted on their website last December — after two attackers who pledged loyalty to the Islamic State killed 14 people in San Bernardino, Calif.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/na ... deca74b510

Looking for a correction, I did find one:

Correction: Victim Deonka Drayton’s last name was rendered incorrectly as Drake in an earlier version of this report.

I have a feeling I could do this all day if I didn't have to go work. Already have three more post-fact WaPo lined up.

Marquez to plead guilty to aiding San Bernardino shooter's plots

Enrique Marquez Jr. will admit in court this week that he illegally purchased the rifles used in the deadly San Bernardino terrorist siege.

‘He used my gun,' neighbor said in suicidal 911 call

Shooter's friend was paid to marry Russian wife, affidavit shows

Neighbor Enrique Marquez charged with conspiracy to support terrorists

Alleged plot against RCC involved pipe bombs, guns

Enrique Marquez Jr. will admit in court this week that he illegally purchased the rifles used in the deadly San Bernardino terrorist siege for friend Syed Rizwan Farook and that he helped Farook form plans for attacks on the 91 Freeway and Riverside City College that were later scuttled, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Tuesday, Feb. 14.

Marquez, a 25-year-old Riverside resident, has agreed to a deal that could imprison him for the statutory maximum sentence of 25 years to life in federal prison and a $500,000 fine, a news release said.

Marquez is scheduled to plead guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court in Riverside to conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and making a false statement in connection with the acquisition of firearms.

He originally pleaded not guilty to additional charges involving to a fake-marriage scheme that was designed to help a Russian citizen related to Farook remain in the U.S. after long overstaying her visa. Those charges will be dropped at sentencing, according to the plea deal.

Marquez’s trial had been set for Sept. 26.

Marquez has not been charged with directly participating in the Dec. 2, 2015, San Bernardino attack, and federal authorities say Marquez had no advanced knowledge of the shooting.

That morning, Farook, 28, and wife Tashfeen Malik, 27, opened fire in a conference room at the Inland Regional Center, where Farook’s San Bernardino County Division of Environmental Health Services co-workers were enjoying a holiday party.

The couple killed 14 people and wounded 22 others. Police killed them in a gunbattle hours later.

The material support to terrorists involved the purchase of weapons and explosives for planned attacks in 2011 and 2012 that went unused until the San Bernardino attack.

Over 2011 and 2012, Marquez purchased a Smith and Wesson M&P-15 Sport rifle and a DPMS model A-15 rifle for Farook, according to the Department of Justice’s affidavit written in support of the criminal complaint against Marquez. Each rifle cost approximately $750.

According to the affidavit, Marquez told investigators that he agreed to purchase the weapons because “his appearance was Caucasian, while Farook looked Middle-Eastern.” Farook was born in Illinois. Marquez is a U.S. citizen.

Marquez also purchased explosive material ultimately used to construct a pipe bomb found at the IRC.

The day after the San Bernardino attack, Marquez called 911 and told the operator, "My neighbor. He did the San Bernardino shooting. ... The (expletive) used my gun in the shooting," according to a transcript of the call contained in the FBI affidavit.

Marquez then checked himself into a mental health facility. The FBI eventually arrested Marquez and questioned him for 10 days, during which, the affidavit said, Marquez admitted his role in the Riverside plots.


http://www.pe.com/articles/illegally-82 ... orist.html

SonicG » Tue Feb 14, 2017 9:01 pm wrote:Time to put a travel ban on ex-new waver hispanic fired Walmart security guards I guess...

Fri May 5, 2017 | 4:36am IST
Families of San Bernardino shooting sue Facebook, Google, Twitter
By Dan Whitcomb | LOS ANGELES

Family members of three victims of the December 2015 shooting rampage in San Bernardino, California, have sued Facebook, Google and Twitter, claiming that the companies permitted Islamic State to flourish on social media.

The relatives assert that by allowing Islamic State militants to spread propaganda freely on social media, the three companies provided "material support" to the group and enabled attacks such as the one in San Bernardino.

"For years defendants have knowingly and recklessly provided the terrorist group ISIS with accounts to use its social networks as a tool for spreading extremist propaganda, raising funds and attracting new recruits," family members of Sierra Clayborn, Tin Nguyen and Nicholas Thalasinos charge in the 32-page complaint, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

"Without defendants Twitter, Facebook and Google (YouTube), the explosive growth of ISIS over the last few years into the most feared terrorist group in the world would not have been possible," the complaint said.

Spokeswomen for Twitter and Google declined to comment on the lawsuit. Representatives for Facebook could not immediately be reached by Reuters on Thursday afternoon.

Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, opened fire on a holiday gathering of Farook's co-workers at a government building in San Bernardino on Dec. 2, 2015, killing 14 people and wounding 22 others.

Farook, the 28-year-old, U.S.-born son of Pakistani immigrants, and Malik, 29, a Pakistani native, died in a shootout with police four hours after the massacre.

Authorities have said the couple was inspired by Islamist militants. At the time, the assault ranked as the deadliest attack by Islamist extremists on U.S. soil since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. In June 2016, an American-born gunman pledging allegiance to the leader of Islamic State shot 49 people to death at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, before he was killed by police.

In December 2016 the families of three men killed at the nightclub sued Twitter, Google and Facebook in federal court on allegations similar to those in the California lawsuit.

Federal law gives internet companies broad immunity from liability for content posted by their users. A number of lawsuits have been filed in recent years seeking to hold social media companies responsible for terror attacks, but none has advanced beyond the preliminary phases.

(Reporting by Dan Whitcomb in Los Angeles; Additional reporting by David Ingram and Julia Love in San Francisco; Editing by Dan Grebler and Grant McCool)

http://in.reuters.com/article/us-sanber ... NKBN1802SL