Satya_anveshi wrote:Can some journalist please quickly ask Money shankar ayyar about his views on this shooting?
saip wrote:The woman is a Qatari.
"Please do not implicate Islam or Muslims in this" --- CAIR
chetak wrote:Satya_anveshi wrote:Can some journalist please quickly ask Money shankar ayyar about his views on this shooting?
I can tell you amir khan's view --- he will say
"i don't believe that he (the shooter) is a muslim" end of story and end of argument. the press will lap it up.
game set and match, AK
saip wrote:The woman is a Qatari.
"Please do not implicate Islam or Muslims in this" --- CAIR
The brother of the San Bernardino shooter is a decorated veteran of the U.S. Navy, a spokesperson told BuzzFeed News.
Syed Raheel Farook enlisted in August 2003 and left the service in August 2007.
He was awarded the National Defense Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, and Sea Service Deployment Ribbon, Navy records show.
Syed Raheel Farook was an Information System Technician, Third Class. He was on duty on the USS Enterprise; in the Surface Warfare Officer School Unit, in Great Lakes, IL; and at the Recruit Training Command, in Great Lakes, IL.
He was an Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist and won the Good Conduct Medal, records show.
US mass shooting: Pakistan origin couple open fire at Christmas party
By Agencies |Posted 03-Dec-2015
San Francisco: At least 14 people were killed and 17 others injured on Thursday when a heavily-armed young Pakistani-origin couple opened indiscriminate fire during a Christmas party at a centre for people with disabilities in California, the deadliest shooting in the US since 2012.
The shooters wearing 'assault-style clothing' targeted the party at the Inland Regional Centre in San Bernardino and fled after the carnage in a black SUV, leading to a lengthy police chase. Hours later, the attackers were killed by police in an encounter.
Jarrod Burguan of the San Bernardino police identified the two suspects killed in the shootout with police as Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, both of Pakistani-origin.
The shooting occurred when the employees of county health department were attending the party with more than 500 people were present at the centre, police said. Farook and Malik were married and the parents of a 6- month-old daughter, according to Farook's brother-in-law Farhan Khan.
Farook was born in the US and was an American citizen. He was an environmental specialist with the county health department who sometimes worked at the Inland Regional Center. Farook had been at the party and left 'angry' amid a dispute, Burguan said.
He and his wife then returned with explosive devices, assault-style rifles and handguns. They were dressed in 'dark, kind of tactical gear', the police chief said."We don't have the motive at this point. We have not ruled out terrorism," Burguan said.
"Based upon how they were equipped, there had to be some degree of planning that went into this. I don't think they just ran home and put on these tactical clothes, grabbed guns and came back on a spur of the moment thing," he said.
At least 14 people died in the shooting, police said, describing it as an incident of 'mass shooting'. Seventeen others were injured - mostly by bullets from automatic-style rifles. Some persons injured in the panic to escape.
"A device that looked like a bomb also flew out of the vehicle," an official was quoted as saying by media reports.
Sgt. Vicki Cervantes, a spokeswoman for the San Bernardino Police Department, said that the suspects are heavily armed and were wearing ski masks and possibly body armour.
The shooters burst into a conference room where a Christmas party was held and started shooting.
US President Barack Obama was briefed about the shooting by Homeland Securities officials and he called for a bipartisan effort "at every level of government" to address mass shooting problems, local media reported.
Reacting to the incident, President Barack Obama said, "We should never think that this is something that just happens in the ordinary course of events, because it does not happen with the same frequency in other countries." The attack was the deadliest shooting on US soil since the Sandy Hook school massacre in 2012.
RoyG wrote:America has far too many social problems. Armed gunmen is nothing new. Most people I talk to could care less. They just want the booze, b*tches, etc. Nothing will come of this.
CRamS wrote:Is that picture fake or real. I don't like it only because average person around the world will associate sari with some India connection.
Satya_anveshi wrote:There is something seriously wrong with this incident...
Sumeet wrote:There are Paki women who wear Saris here in US. I have seen that. As I just mentioned attacks from Pakis here in US may effect few/some unfortunate Indians as well.
CRamS wrote:Is that picture fake or real. I don't like it only because average person around the world will associate sari with some India connection.
That led authorities to stake out the couple’s home in Redlands. When the SUV rolled by, and then sped away, police chased it until the SUV stopped on San Bernardino Avenue, a few miles from the massacre. Police said the suspects fired 76 rifle rounds; police fired 380. The SUV, so riddled with bullets that it looked like it had been hit with a bomb, was due back at the rental agency that day, police said.
Bade wrote:CNN still has not revealed any pics of the "wife". Why ?
The buzzfeed link is troubling. There is more to it than meets the eye. Is it Headley like persona who double crossed and went rogue. They are still not talking about his brother (vet) in mainstream news. Does he have a brother in addition to a sister. He was here and trained here, with no substantial absence as he a had a full time job in CA.
Kashi wrote:Sumeet wrote:There are Paki women who wear Saris here in US. I have seen that. As I just mentioned attacks from Pakis here in US may effect few/some unfortunate Indians as well.
Not just in US. Read somewhere that sari is the formal attire of choice for many in the RAPE gatherings in pakhanaland as well.
Nicholas Thalasinos, 52, was a devoted sanitary inspector in San Bernardino County, and he was also a devout Messianic Jew.
He was vocal about his religious beliefs and even wore the tzitzis, the tassels worn by Jewish faithful on all four corners of clothing to cover oneself as a holy act.
Still, a friend of Nicholas Thalasinos, Kuuleme Stephens, told the Associated Press that his Messianic fervor was a constant source of division between the two inspectors. She recalled a heated argument between Talasinos and Farook.
Thalasinos, she said, told her that Farook “doesn’t agree that Islam is not a peaceful religion.”
The future mass gunman attempted to make the argument that Americans misunderstand Islam.
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