Terrorist attack in San Bernardino
In the terrorist attack in San Bernardino ( California , United States ) on December 2, 2015, assassins Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik killed 14 people and injured 21 others. The attack occurred at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino , a non-profit organization for people with developmental disabilities, which was having a Christmas party at the time. It was the worst Islamist terrorist act in the US since September 11, 2001 .
Course of events
Between 10:59 and 12:39 p.m. Pacific Time (PT), the two perpetrators Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik shot inside the building. According to eyewitness reports, the perpetrators were armed with camouflage clothing , handguns and rifles of the ArmaLite AR-15 type, as well as protective vests that were legally in their possession. They also wore action camcorders attached to their body armor. "All of this is military tactic for a protracted fight" ("That's a military tactic for a sustained fight"), said a police source. The security forces who arrived a little later evacuated the area after the riflemen had already fled at this point. Following evidence of one of the perpetrators who previously attended the ceremony and was employed by the Inland Regional Center, authorities requested a search warrant for the suspect's home in Redlands .
While attempting to search two suspects fled with a dark SUV type Expedition Ford in which they mitführten about 1600 rounds of ammunition. The police asked residents of the city to stay home. The escape vehicle was parked at around 3 p.m. Two of the perpetrators, a man and a woman, were killed in a 45-second firefight in which the police fired 380 shots and the suspects fired 76 shots. A third person initially escaped unrecognized, but was arrested some time later. It is still unclear whether this person is connected to the attack, the authorities assume that there were only two shooters.
In the Inland Regional Center, explosive devices were found that were connected to a remote-controlled toy car as a trigger, but did not explode for reasons unknown. The remote control belonging to the toy was found in the getaway vehicle.
Assassin
The killed assassins were identified as the 28-year-old city employee and Navy veteran Syed Rizwan Farook (born June 14, 1987 in Chicago ) and his 27-year-old wife Tashfeen Malik (born July 13, 1988 in Karor Lal Esan, Punjab , Pakistan ) identified. Both perpetrators had Muslim ancestors and were Muslims themselves , the father of the male perpetrator described his son in broken English as “very religious: he went to work, came back, went to pray, came back. He was a Muslim. "(" Very religious. He would go to work, come back, go to pray, come back. He's Muslim. ") The two assassins were killed during an exchange of fire with 23 police officers when they were in a rental SUV escaped had been stopped.
Their daughter, who was six months old at the time of the crime, brought the couple to see Farook's mother before they set out on the assassination attempt.
Farook was born in Chicago, Illinois ; his parents are from Pakistan. His wife came to the United States as a Pakistani woman on a fiancé visa ( K-1 visa ). The police found twelve more pipe bombs and around 5,000 rounds of ammunition in the bomber's house.
On December 4, the FBI declared the attack a terrorist act and took over investigative work from the local authorities. This was justified primarily with a post on Facebook by Tashfeen Malik, in which she had declared her loyalty to IS .
Victim
The two assassins killed 14 people and injured 21 others before being shot by police themselves. After informing the bereaved, the police released the names of the victims.
Reactions
The then US President Barack Obama renewed his call for stricter gun laws .
On Twitter , Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton wrote : “I refuse to accept this as normal. We must act to stop the gun violence now. " (" I refuse to accept this as normal. We must take action to stop gun violence now. ")
Republican politicians and the conservative media focus the public debate on terrorism. Presidential candidate Chris Christie said they were “in the middle of the next world war” while Ted Cruz called for “a war president” for the nation. US presidential candidate Donald Trump accused Obama of not calling Islamist terrorism by its name - “And the president refuses to say it. Something is going on with him that we don't know about. "
On December 5, 2015, the New York Times appeared for the first time in a century with an editorial on its front page. In this, she took the event of San Bernardino as an opportunity to demand tightening of the legislation on the acquisition of firearms. The fact that it is possible in the simplest possible way to privately buy weapons that are designed for use in war and then use them as a result, called the paper a “moral outrage and a national disgrace”.
Dispute between the FBI and Apple
After the fact, the FBI found Farook's office cell phone, an iPhone 5c , and tried to force Apple to help unlock the device. The FBI stated that they wanted to find out in this way whether Malik and Farook were in contact with terrorist groups. Apple resisted: The FBI did not have the right to force Apple to develop an iOS variant that circumvented the security precautions built into iOS; In addition, Apple CEO Tim Cook stressed in an open letter that it was too dangerous to develop such software because it harbored great potential for abuse.
The US Justice Department (DoJ) announced at the end of March 2016 that it had gained access to the data stored on the iPhone without the help of Apple. In the course of this, the DoJ also withdrew the lawsuit against Apple. It is believed that the DoJ used the services of Israeli security company Cellebrite to crack the iPhone.
See also
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Individual evidence
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