Officials: San Bernardino Shooter Planned a Different Attack in 2012
Intelligence officials tell CNN that long before the San Bernardino attacks, the male shooter may have plotted a different attack in California with a different, unnamed co-conspirator.
Citing “two U.S. officials,” CNN reports the shooter—Syed Rizwan Farook—conspired with the unidentified partner in 2012 to attack a “specific target” before the pair ultimately abandoned the plan.
The officials speculate a “round of terror-related arrests” in the area may have “spooked” them.
Still, the revelation supports the theory that Farook had been radicalized long before he and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, shot and killed at least 14 people last week. (Malik, of course, posted on Facebook an “allegiance to Isis” not long after the shooting began.)
