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SAN BERNARDINO SHOOTING: News coverage has public asking 'Who said that?'

Inland residents who have followed media coverage of the mass shooting in San Bernardino can be excused for feeling whipsawed by information that has been frightening, confusing, and, sometimes, anonymous.

Law enforcement sources confirm to NPR's Dina Temple-Raston that Farook was employed by the San Bernardino County health department as an environmental health specialist. His name has also been reported as Sayed Rizwan Farooq.

A source tells Dina that witnesses appeared to recognize his voice and build even though he was wearing a ski mask.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/ ... dino-calif

Farook was wearing a ski mask at the time of the shooting, law enforcement officials tell NPR's Dina Temple-Raston, but witnesses to the shooting still recognized him.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/ ... -day-after

Dina Temple-Raston
Counterterrorism Correspondent

As part of NPR's national security team , Dina Temple-Raston reports about counterterrorism at home and abroad for NPR News. Her reporting can be heard on NPR's newsmagazines. She joined NPR in March 2007.

Recently, she was chosen for a Neiman Fellowship at Harvard. These fellowships are given to mid-career journalists.

http://www.npr.org/people/11209543/dina-temple-raston

Nordic » Wed Dec 16, 2015 9:21 pm wrote:

divideandconquer » Wed Dec 16, 2015 8:12 pm wrote:In this age of trial by media, where mass shootings occur like clockwork, whatever is reported in the first 48 hours becomes the "truth". That's what people will remember, that is if they remember anything at all about this event as they occur so frequently they all begin to blend together. The next one should be occurring any day now.

Hell, at this point, over a week later, the FBI could admit the whole thing was staged, and unless the NY Times prints it above the fold, and FOX, CNN and MSNBC air it every hour on the hour, people will only remember what's reported during the media circus . In other words, it would take a media circus to counter another media circus.

Agreed. Look at how clear it's become, even if you only pay attention to the "mainstream" media, that the US deliberately avoided bombing ISIS, let them steal and sell oil, airdropped weapons and arms to them etc etc etc .... And that ISIS is in effect a proxy force for the US. But Americans have a self-imposed blind spot and simply refuse to believe it. I've been in some conversations where the cognitive dissonance in this regard is so severe it borders on a serious mental illness.

backtoiam » Wed Dec 16, 2015 11:46 pm wrote:I listened to as much of the Presidential debate as I could stomach. It was not a debate about a president of a country. It was a debate about the management of a country now named ISIS and the pretend agenda of such a country. The ironic manipulations of the citizens of the new nation of ISIS. The citizens of the nation of ISIS do not know they live in the nation of ISIS. I asked my nephew yesterday what he thought about ISIS. He said "it is complete bullshit but I cannot tell anybody that because they think I am crazy." He is the last of a generation that will ever know how this all came about. I have no idea how he figured it out. He said "something just didn't seem right about all this but I can't tell anybody else."

tapitsbo » Thu Dec 17, 2015 12:10 am wrote:backtoiam, do you really believe younger and newer generations are becoming LESS skeptical about such matters? I'm not so sure.

By Yasmeen Abutaleb


Exclusive: San Bernardino shooters buried in quiet funeral following Islamic rituals

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, who opened fire on a San Bernardino holiday party earlier this month, were buried Tuesday in a quiet, graveside funeral guarded by FBI agents.

Many of those who attended mosque with the couple refused to attend, two mosque members said.

U.S.-born Farook, 28, and his Pakistani-born wife Malik, 29, killed 14 people and injured 21, in what U.S. officials have called a terrorist attack. They died later that day in a gun battle with police.

The funeral followed traditional Islamic rituals, said an attendee. At a Muslim cemetery hours away from San Bernardino, the bodies were cleansed according to Islamic rules, wrapped in white cloth and buried.

The funeral attendee and another person familiar with the situation, both of whom asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation, said it took a week to find a graveyard willing to accept the bodies.

They said the husband and wife were ultimately buried in a cemetery far from San Bernardino, after a closer facility refused to take the bodies because of fears the graves would be desecrated. Neither person would identify the cemetery where the couple was buried.

Muslims are usually buried within 24 hours of dying, but family members and community members had to wait for the bodies to be released by law enforcement officials and then for permission from a cemetery.

Neither source would say which cemetery refused to bury the couple, but a woman at the Islamic Cemetery & Masjid in Adelanto, Calif. – less than an hour from San Bernardino – confirmed the cemetery had refused to bury the bodies, in part out of a fear of backlash, but also for “other reasons". She declined to give her name.

The family of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the two men accused of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing attack in 2013, faced similar difficulty finding a place to bury his body after the attack. Graveyards in Massachusetts refused to accept the body, and the family ultimately buried him in an unmarked grave in Virginia.

About 10 people went to the funeral, the attendee said, including members of Farook's family and people who used to pray with him at mosques in San Bernardino County.

But most Muslims in the community refused to participate in the burial or perform the funeral prayer, called Salat Al-Janazah, according to the source who did not attend the funeral.

"I don't forgive him myself," said the mosque-goer who did not attend the funeral. Still, he added, "I pray mercy for him, and we Muslims know God is merciful. But he's also just."

Farook and Malik left behind a 6-month-old daughter, who has been in state custody since the Dec. 2 massacre. Farook's sister and brother-in-law, Saira and Farhan Khan, have said they hope to adopt their niece.

An attorney for family members did not immediately return a call seeking comment for this story.



(Reporting by Yasmeen Abutaleb, additional reporting by Idrees Ali in San Bernardino,; Editing by Sue Horton and Ken Wills)
http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-san-ber ... 55115.html

stickdog99 » Wed Dec 16, 2015 6:06 pm wrote:OK, after reading the newest round of bullshit on this, here is my take.

The "unnamed sources" in charge of media manipulation of this simply went too far by suggesting that Mailk had publicly posted pro-ISIS messages on social media before she got her fiancee visa.

This caused a big ruckus that Clown Car debate last night, with the Republicans accusing Obama of not having done what "every employer" does because of political correctness. So the Comey, the FBI lead investigator, was instructed to walk back what that one unnamed source had said. When Comey said Malik had made no public postings showing support for jihad at his bosses' behest, he forgot about the bogus FB post leak the whole ISIS connection originally depended on. It's easy to forget lies when you tell so many.

Later, more unnamed sources "corrected the record" to assure us that the alias post made on the day of the shooting on an alias account pledging allegiance to ISIS was not a "garble".

"Trust us; the only 'garble' was the one that the Republicans were having a field day with!"