Serious San Bernardino Shooters Radicalized Before They Started Dating, FBI Says

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    The couple who launched the terror attack in San Bernardino were both radicalized before they met online, the director of the FBI revealed today.

    FBI Director James Comey revealed the new information about the couple, who were killed by police following the deadly shooting, during testimony on Capitol Hill.

    That revelation means that the couple, Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, were radicalized as early as the end of 2013, Comey said.

    Asked whether the marriage of shooters was arranged by a terror group or terror operative, or was just a meeting of two radicals online, Comey said: "I don't know the answer to that yet... It would be a very, very important thing to know."

    Comey said they were talking about jihad and martyrdom before they became engaged and started living together.

    Farook, 28, was born in the United States and Malik, 29, was born in Pakistan.

    She first came to the U.S. with Farook in late July 2014, arriving on a K1 fiancee visa. Court records state that the couple was married in Riverside, California on Aug. 16, 2014.

    Police identified Farook and Malik as the two suspects hours after the Dec. 2 shooting, which left 14 people dead and 21 others injured.
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