San Bernardino Shooting: Tashfeen Malik Shows Support For Jihad On Facebook? Details Released!
Recent updates on the San Bernardino Shooting unveiled that Tashfeen Malik, wife of Syed Rizwan Farook where the couple was responsible for the attack, was said to have posted her interest of supporting Islamic jihad via her Facebook account, which has ignited an interest by the US Government to examine its social media policy in visa reviews, as stated by sources.
On December 2, 2015, the San Bernardino shooting that transpired at the Inland Regional Center left fourteen people killed and 22 injured by an Islamic extremism-inspired terrorist attack led by Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, where the former is suspected of being tied-in to jihadists recruiter, Sohiel Kabir, as previously reported.
One of the suspects of the San Bernardino shooting, Tashfeen Malik, was reported to have sent at least two private correspondences via Facebook to a small group of friends from Pakistan back in 2012 and 2014, where she pledged her support for Islamic Jihad and hoped to participate in the fight one day, according to the LA Times.
The recent information showed that the US law enforcement and intelligence agencies overlooked warnings of the San Bernardino shooter on social media, Facebook, that Tashfeen Malik was a possible jihad threat before she came to the United States on a K-1 fiancée visa back in July 2014, as stated by the source.
As such, the Obama administration has expressed its interest in reviewing the Government's procedure for scrutinizing would-be-immigrants, with a watchful eye toward inspecting applicants' online presence on social media, to close security gaps in the US visa system, as reported by the Washington Post.
"I think the president's top priority here is the national security and safety of the American people," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said, courtesy of the source.
"And that will continue to be the case with ensuring that this K-1 visa program is effectively implemented," he added.
As such, the Homeland Security Department announced that it is reviewing its policy on when officials at the US Citizenship and Immigration Service can investigate social media posts as part of its process in scrutinizing would-be-immigrants, who are applying for visas, as stated by the Washington Post.
