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The woman who helped carry out the shooting in San Bernardino, California on Wednesday with her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, had pledged allegiance to ISIS in a Facebook posting before the massacre, according to federal law enforcement officials.
There is no evidence Islamic State instructed Tashfeen Malik to launch the deadly attacks that killed 14 and injured 21. Investigators do believe that the murderous couple were inspired by the terrorist group to kill.
“At this point we believe they were more self-radicalized and inspired by the group than actually told to do the shooting,” an anonymous official said.
The pledge was posted on Facebook under another name and then deleted. Malik posted the pledge to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi before the deadly assault at the holiday party of Farook’s coworkers.
In the past, jihadists have used the oath of allegiance, called a “bayat,” to declare their loyalty to specific groups and leaders.
There was much electronic information that was deleted by the killer couple in the days leading up to the shooting. It was an apparent effort to cover their digital tracks, but the damning post was still recovered officials said. The Facebook post gives investigators some solid evidence that the attack was not one of workplace violence, but rather terrorism.
There is very little known about the 27-year-old shooter. Officials have only disclosed that Malik was born in Pakistan, traveled on a Pakistani passport and had recently lived in Saudi Arabia.
Farook met Malik online and the two got engaged after Farook traveled to Saudi Arabia in September 2013. Malik applied for a K-1 visa at the American embassy in Islamabad in May, 2014. Then two months later, Farook traveled to Saudi Arabia again to meet Malik, and then brought her to the United States on a K-1 visa, a 90-day visa given to fiancés planning to marry Americans.
This may be the first instance of a female ISIL supporter radicalizing a male. “Usually it’s ISIS supporters trying to radicalize young girls online as they try to find new wives, but this may be the first case I know of where the opposite happened,” said Ryan Mauro, a national security analyst for Clarion Project, which tracks terrorism.
This information comes after FBI Director James Comey recently revealed that the caseload of Islamic State suspects has exploded to more than 900 in all 50 states. All of which are active and open investigations.