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SB jihadi’s friend tied to group that planned jihad mass murder in 2012

Jun 1, 2016 5:38 pm By Robert Spencer

Law enforcement and government officials continue to treat each jihad attack as an isolated incident. But they are not isolated. They are inspired by a uniform ideology and spring from what appears to be a network of jihadis who are looking for opportunities to murder non-Muslims.

Enrique Marquez

“Prosecutors say San Bernardino attacker’s friend had ties to group arrested for 2012 terror plot,” by Mark Berman and Adam Goldman, Washington Post, June 1, 2016:

Federal authorities say they have discovered connections between a friend of the San Bernardino attacker charged with conspiring to carry out other attacks with him and a group of men arrested years earlier in California as part of a different plot.

This comes after the FBI had said in the weeks after the Dec. 2 rampage in San Bernardino, Calif., that they found no evidence of any ties between husband-and-wife attackers and a group of men arrested in 2012 and charged with plotting to travel to Afghanistan to kill American soldiers.

Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, opened fire inside a company holiday party in December, killing 14 people before dying hours later in a shootout with police. Authorities later said Malik pledged allegiance to the head of the self-proclaimed Islamic State in a posting on Facebook after the attack.

Investigators have since sought to determine whether the couple had any other accomplices or connections to other groups, an issue that FBI Director James Comey highlighted in arguing for why the bureau needed to access Farook’s locked iPhone. Law enforcement officials have said the iPhone, which was eventually unlocked, has not revealed any connections to foreign terrorists. Comey has also said authorities believe the attackers were inspired by foreign terrorist groups.

Weeks after the attack, authorities arrested Enrique Marquez Jr., a former neighbor of Farook’s, and charged him with plotting to carry out other attacks in 2011 and 2012.

Farook and Marquez had put together detailed plans for the attacks, according to the FBI. In one plot, they discussed attacking the heavily-trafficked Route 91 by throwing pipe bombs into the road to stop traffic and then shooting at trapped motorists and first responders alike. In another, the FBI alleges that they talked about going to Riverside City College — a community college both had attended — and hurling pipe bombs into the cafeteria.

Federal authorities say Marquez bought the guns later used in the San Bernardino attack during this plotting and purchased explosive material later used to build the pipe bomb found at the scene of the December rampage. Prosecutors have said there is no evidence Marquez had any knowledge of the San Bernardino attack before it happened….

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Filed Under: American jihadis, Featured, Jihad in the U.S. Tagged With: Enrique Marquez, Syed Rizwan Farook, Tashfeen Malik


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  1. Mike Ramirez says

    Jun 1, 2016 at 6:09 pm

    Fundamental Islam has been in the fight to gain world dominance ever since Muhammad received his “revelations” and claimed to be the “last and final prophet” to the world. While not all Muslims are “terrorists”, they still desire the outcome for Islam to be victorious and it is the present-day jihadists, such as ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Hezbullah, Boko Haram, etc., that represent the military arm of Islam. Although these groups may have sectarian differences, they each believe they are in the apocalyptic fight to establish Islam as the world power over all nations and that this will result in the end of days – as proclaimed by Muhammad in the following Hadith:

    “The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: A section of my community will continue to fight for the right and overcome their opponents till the last of them fights with the Antichrist.” (Sunan Abu-Dawud Book 14, Number 2478, Narrated Imran ibn Husayn)

    • mortimer says

      Jun 1, 2016 at 7:46 pm

      15% of Muslims approve the violent ACTIONS of terrorist groups. 65% of Muslims approve the GOALS of terrorist groups: Sharia and a caliphate.

      It is likely 35% of those called Muslims are doubters who do not wish to cause a rift with their families and use ‘Muslim’ as a cultural identity and do not practice or believe the religion. In a pinch, many of 35% would also join a jihad to exterminate the dirty kafirs. We should not underestimate the hypnotic hysteria that Islam can stir up.

      • Bob says

        Jun 2, 2016 at 7:44 am

        Mortimer – do these muslim ‘doubters’ truly want to live under the brutal shari’a law rather than the liberal western laws? Or are they too afraid of their fellow-cultists to say so?

        • Mike Ramirez says

          Jun 2, 2016 at 1:38 pm

          Hi Mortimer. Taking the liberty to respond to your question – I think we can pretty much assess that the Muslim “doubters” are too afraid of speaking out against the brutal punishments prescribed under Sharia law. Even within their own family, it is the obligation of a parent or family member to kill a son, daughter, or any other relative that is deemed to have become an apostate by merely speaking against Islamic law. Muhammad’s teachings are still followed to the letter by fundamental Muslims even in the 21st century. Here is one such command:

          “…No doubt I heard Allah’s Apostle saying, ‘During the last days there will appear some young foolish people who will say the best words but their faith will not go beyond their throats (i.e. they will have no faith) and will go out from (leave) their religion as an arrow goes out of the game. So, where-ever you find them, kill them, for who-ever kills them shall have reward on the Day of Resurrection.”‘

          Source: (Sahih Bukhari: Volume 9, Book 84, Number 64, Narrated ‘Ali)

          More of what is taught in Islam at http://www.Starman3000.com

  2. jihad3tracker says

    Jun 1, 2016 at 6:10 pm

    What is often forgotten by us, and of course NEVER DISCUSSED by mainstream media or the leftist pundits who write opinion columns: THE SAN BERNARDINO SLAUGHTERERS HAD THOUSANDS OF ADDTIONAL CARTRIDGES IN THEIR VEHICLE.

    It was only by luck that they got slowed by urban traffic and boxed in by police — otherwise there could easily have been hundreds of dead or wounded. Make no mistake about reality — that was meant to be the first MAJOR JIHAD INCIDENT SINCE SEPTEMBER 11TH.

    • mortimer says

      Jun 1, 2016 at 7:49 pm

      Right…only luck prevented this tragedy from being greater. Remember they attacked an OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY!

      Remember also we are now ALL OF US on the front line of jihad. ANY MUSLIM can be the next jihadist.

      No Muslim can be entirely eliminated as a suspect! All Muslims are potential jihadists!

      • Keys says

        Jun 1, 2016 at 8:30 pm

        No doubt in my mind, mortimer. Do not trust a muslim.
        We are infidels, who their god hates to death.

      • Michael Copeland says

        Jun 2, 2016 at 10:08 am

        “an OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY”. So that is what it was.
        The Washington Post speaks of “an office holiday party”: the BBC called it “an office lunch”.
        Perhaps they were told it would be “racist” to identify it.

      • KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM says

        Jun 2, 2016 at 3:23 pm

        YIPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!! Morti has finally come to his senses! Well done Morti!

        Now, make sure you don’t lose the plot and slip back into your old meme of “There are lots of good decent, liberal moslims”.

        The only potentially decent ex-practitioner of islam is an ex-moslim and I emphasize the word POTENTIALLY.

    • jihad3tracker says

      Jun 2, 2016 at 6:17 am

      OFF-TOPIC BUT IMPORTANT —- Here is a new short (5:58) video by wonderful + brilliant + funny + expert on Islam = David Wood.

      http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2016/05/zakia-belkhiris-peace-selfies-and-her.html

      It was prompted by the Muslima who made peace selfie photes in front of Belgians at a rally not too long ago. David’s essential point is this: Western media are just as selectively prejudiced as the KKK — but the KKK does not try to deny it.

      And the reason for this double standard ???

      Those media folks demand civilized conduct from Europeans, but expectations are tossed out the nearest window if Muslims are the center of attention. Thus, when they behave like “petulant children”, or write anti-Semitic tweets, the media attitude is “nothing new here”.

  3. Michael Copeland says

    Jun 1, 2016 at 6:21 pm

    “authorities believe the attackers were inspired by foreign terrorist groups”.
    There is one foreign group, a very large one, that espouses terror tactics: it is the Ummah, the Islamic Community. This group is instructed to follow the commands in its source texts. It is these which inspired the San Bernardino murderers.

  4. Nigel GFF says

    Jun 1, 2016 at 6:45 pm

    “They are inspired by a uniform ideology …”

    Islam and its adherents sit within a ‘normal bell distribution’, ranging from good to bad. A tad simplistic but it”ll do. It, islam, has raged from the 7th to the 21st Century and has remained fundamentally immutable. Our elites and authorities try to convince us of disparate species of islam that sit within discrete ‘bells’. No. To me, all those Al-this, Al-that, Shebabs, Is’s … the list is deceiving and long, they all sit in the same bowl. The ‘lone wolf’, the cells, enablers and ‘moderate groups’ ALL follow their ‘perfect man’. The major sectarian groups within islam may skew the curve but to me they are one.

    I thank JW for clarity.

    • mortimer says

      Jun 1, 2016 at 8:12 pm

      Nigel’s point is well taken: ‘fundamentally immutable’. The doctrines of the consensus, bida and taqlid keep Islam stable and change-free. Islam is strictly codified…more than Westerners realize, especially the elites. Islamic elites are the enforcers of Sharia. They can be killed if they do not encourage Muslims to practice strictly. Those Muslim leaders who claim Muslims can practice ‘Islam-à-la-carte’ will be subject to death threats and maybe successful assassination (they are in Pakistan and Bangladesh, for instance).

      Such assassinations of lax Muslims will come to the West soon. They will be assassinations of Muslim leaders…not just the usual honor killings.

  5. Angemon says

    Jun 1, 2016 at 7:23 pm

    Tip, iceberg. etc.

    • Rob says

      Jun 1, 2016 at 10:15 pm

      🙂
      Frog in pot etc

  6. JUSTICEFORALL says

    Jun 2, 2016 at 3:32 am

    If you read the Koran you will see there are 109 places where they tell their followers to “kill” for one reason: the other person is not of their faith! They talk about “smiting them with the sword” and cutting “their neck”. How can they live amongst other people in another nation if they are faithful to their Bible and are ordered to murder those not of their faith? Why do countries like Germany welcome people like these who want to kill their citizens? Is this part of the One World Gov’t. plot?

    • Mike Ramirez says

      Jun 3, 2016 at 6:19 pm

      JUSTICEFORAL wrote, in part: “Is this part of the One World Gov’t. plot?”

      It appears most leaders of the world governments are now opening their borders for the specific reason of “social-engineering” the world’s population into submission. (By the way, Islam does NOT mean peace – it means Submission.) The apparent end result will be to form a global justice system combined with an exclusive global religion. This totalitarian system may actually be the Islamic Caliphate that is presently in the early stages of reforming. Laws ruling over the nations will be governed according to Sharia while the theocratic rule will be forced conversion for all to accept the religion of Islam and testify that Muhammad is the last and final prophet to mankind. Atheists, Agnostics, Jews, Christians and people from all other beliefs who do not “embrace” Islam will be persecuted and/or killed.

      Similar to what is already happening in parts of Europe and throughout the Middle East, except, the open borders policy of Western governments will help expedite the process.

      “France is one of the countries where the Muslim population has now reached (over) ten-percent with Muslims beginning to exert more and more political influence in politics. It is quite possible that France will be the first modern European country to fall under Islamic rule within ten to fifteen years.”

      Questionable Teachings of Islam http://www.Starman3000.com

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