FBI: San Bernardino shooters did not support ISIL on social media

[spanone]

The married couple who massacred 14 people in San Bernardino, California, on Dec. 2 did not express support for "jihad and martyrdom" on social media — as was previously reported — FBI Director James Comey said on Wednesday.

There was also no evidence Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his wife Tashfeen Malik, 29, were part of an organized cell or had any contact with overseas armed groups, Comey added.

The couple did, however, express support for a violent ideology in their private communications, Comey said.

Earlier, Malik was wrongly said to have pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), on a social media account under a different name.

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/12/16/san-bernardino-shooters-did-not-support-isil-on-social-media.html

[Johonny]

1. I'm sure the GOP debaters will modify their message based on new information

Hahahahahahahaha

[Human101948]

2. A bit too late, the mythology has already been created and implanted...

in the psyches of all those weak-minded Americans who are quaking in their boots and ready to nuke the Middle East.

[spanone]

3. the truth still matters.

[randys1]

4. ABsolutely, just like BLM must never stop SCREAMING at those in power that

their lives indeed matter.

Or just like protests at the Nazi , uh I mean Trump or Rubio or Cruz campaign events, are very important.

People need to understand that Trump is saying what Cruz and Rubio believe.

[Human101948]

5. Tell that to all those Trump supporters...

Or Carly supporters or Ted Cruz supporters. There is a large portion of the population that has an alternate reality that they carefully nurture.

[spanone]

6. i will. the truth always matter.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

7. And they're still terrorists. Right?

Their friend who supplied them with two of the weapons told the FBI that he and Farook were planning a terror attack in 2012 (?) but got spooked when other terrorists were rounded up.

[leveymg]

8. That is an amazing reversal by Comey and the FBI.

Apparently, trust no one is the only guide to interpreting these events.

My head just exploded.

[ucrdem]

9. The timing is interesting.

The facts as we knew them were put to good use last night.