San Bernardino Shooter Pledged Allegiance To ISIS During Terror Attack

The female shooter in the Wednesday terror attack in San Bernardino, Calif., posted an oath of allegiance on Facebook to ISIS and its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi during the attack, CNN has reported.

Tashfeen Malik made the post under a pseudonym. The New York Times reported that the investigation showed that Malik and her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, had been erasing the trail of their online activity in the days leading up to the attack. This activity has suggested to authorities that the attack was premeditated.

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Thomas Joscelyn, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, gave a possible explanation for Malik’s oath of loyalty to Baghdadi during the attack. Joscelyn noted on Twitter that according to Dabiq, ISIS’ online magazine, “believers shouldn’t die in a state of disobedience & should swear allegiance before death.”

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