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| California shooters didn't fit FBI profiles, raising questions about U.S. strategy | | Saturday, December 05, 2015 1:26 AM | |
| | By Andy Sullivan, Julia Edwards and Julia Harte WASHINGTON (Reuters) - They were a married couple with a young child and a steady income. The husband and wife accused of killing 14 people in California bore little resemblance, apart from their Muslim faith, to the aimless young men who have been arrested in the United States for plotting violent attacks in the name of the Islamic State. At the time that Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, were shooting people at an office holiday party in San Bernardino, California, the FBI was investigating more than 900 U.S. residents for suspected ties to Islamic extremist groups. |
| FBI investigating California massacre as 'act of terrorism' | | Saturday, December 05, 2015 12:35 AM | |
|  By Dan Whitcomb and Mark Hosenball SAN BERNARDINO, Calif./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI is investigating the massacre of 14 people in California by a married couple armed with assault rifles as an "act of terrorism," officials said on Friday, noting the wife was believed to have pledged allegiance to a leader of the militant group Islamic State. Tashfeen Malik, 27, a native of Pakistan who lived in Saudi Arabia for more than 20 years, and her U.S.-born husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, were killed in a shootout with police hours after the Wednesday attack during a holiday party at the Inland Regional Center social services agency in San Bernardino, about 60 miles (100 km) east of Los Angeles.
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| Exclusive - Most Americans see Muslims like any other group after California shooting - Reuters/Ipsos poll | | Saturday, December 05, 2015 12:04 AM | |
|  By Ginger Gibson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Just days after two Muslims were accused of gunning down 14 people in California, a Reuters/Ipsos poll shows 51 percent of Americans view Muslims living in the United States the same as any other community, while only 14.6 percent are generally fearful. In the first poll on views of Muslim Americans taken in the aftermath of the Paris and San Bernardino attacks, much of the division is partisan. Among Democrats, 60 percent said they view Muslims like any other community, compared with only 30 percent of Republicans.
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| Mexico arrests suspects in case of missing Australian surfers | | | Mexican authorities have detained three men in connection with the suspected murder of two Australian surfers reported missing in a part of Mexico notorious for drug trafficking. Authorities are still checking the identity of the victims, but suspect they were the missing men, Dean Lucas and Adam Coleman. Lucas and Coleman were due to travel to the western city of Guadalajara on Nov. 21 but never arrived, according to a message posted on social media site Facebook. |
| Investigators piece together portrait of Pakistani woman in shooting massacre | |  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Tashfeen Malik's path to accused mass killer in California began in a small city on the Indus River in Pakistan's Punjab province. It was from here, when she was a toddler, that she moved with her father Gulzar 25 years ago to Saudi Arabia, where he became more deeply religious, more conservative and more hardline, according to a family member. A picture slowly emerged on Friday of the role and possible motivations of 27-year-old Malik in this week's killing of 14 people in California, including her apparent pledge of allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State militant group, according to U.S. officials.
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| Guatemalan judge arrested on Disney cruise ship on football bribery charges | | | By Barbara Liston ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - Federal agents boarded a Disney cruise ship in Florida on Friday to arrest a Guatemalan judge who is one of dozens of football officials charged by U.S. prosecutors investigating corruption in the sport's world governing body FIFA. A spokeswoman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation said that Héctor Trujillo, 62, was arrested by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents who went to his cabin door. Trujillo was on a Disney cruise ship docked at Port Canaveral, Florida, when he was arrested, another law enforcement source said. |
| Praise for Islamic State posted during shooting to suspect's Facebook page | | | (Reuters) - Comments praising the Islamic State were posted during the California shooting to a Facebook page established by the woman accused of helping to kill 14 people, a Facebook Inc spokesman said on Friday. The Facebook profile, established under an alias by Tashfeen Malik, was removed by the company on Thursday for violating its community standards, which prohibit praise or promotion of "acts of terror," said the spokesman, who asked not to be named. The spokesman said there was pro-Islamic State content on the page but declined to elaborate. |
| Tributes pour in for troubled rocker Scott Weiland, dead at 48 | |  By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Tributes poured in on Friday for rock singer Scott Weiland, the troubled ex-frontman for the band Stone Temple Pilots, who was found dead in Minnesota during a tour stop with his new band, The Wildabouts. Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry called Weiland a "gifted performer" and rocker Alice Cooper tweeted "what a voice we've lost." Singer Ryan Adams tweeted "Universe, please take care of him," while filmmaker Judd Apatow said watching Weiland perform was "some of my favourite concerts of all time." Weiland, 48, died in his sleep while on tour in Bloomington, south of Minneapolis, according to a statement posted to his Facebook page. Bloomington police said, after executing a search warrant, that they had discovered a small amount of a substance that tested positive as cocaine in the bedroom where Weiland was located.
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| Baltimore officer said Freddie Gray asked for help while in van | |  By Donna Owens BALTIMORE (Reuters) - A Baltimore policeman charged with manslaughter in the death of a 25-year-old black man told investigators the man had asked for medical assistance while he was in a police van, according to a taped interview played at the officer's trial on Friday. One of the points at issue in the case of Freddie Gray, who died from an injury sustained while he was in the van, is if Gray asked police for help and his request was disregarded. Officer William Porter, 26, said in the interview played in Baltimore City Circuit Court that he passed along Gray's request for help to the driver of the van and his superior.
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| Police raid Argentina media regulator ahead of power handover | | | Police raided the headquarters of Argentina's media regulator on Friday, prompting the watchdog's head to accuse President-elect Mauricio Macri of involvement in what he called a "mafia plot" designed to force his resignation. Martin Sabbatella said Macri wanted to replace him as president of the Federal Authority of Audiovisual and Communication Services (AFSCA) but that he would stay in his post until the end of his mandate in 2017. The raid was the latest incident pointing to increasingly testy relations between conservative Macri and the outgoing leftist president, Cristina Fernandez, ahead of his Dec. 10 swearing in. |
| Restaurant video missing footage of Chicago police shooting | | | By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago officials on Friday released video from a nearby Burger King restaurant taken on the night a police officer fatally shot a black teen but it was missing the time period when the 2014 shooting occurred. The missing footage has led to allegations of tampering with evidence and of a police cover-up in the case, which have been strongly denied by police and prosecutors. Last week, the city released police car dashboard camera video that showed Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times on Oct. 20, 2014. |
| U.S. yet to agree details on new force's role in Iraq - officials | |  By Warren Strobel, Phil Stewart and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has yet to agree with Baghdad on crucial details governing the role of a new American special forces unit aimed at hunting Islamic State militants in Iraq, U.S. officials said, underlining the difficulties Washington faces dealing with Iraq's weakened leader. Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced on Tuesday the planned deployment of the small force, whose raids against Islamic State targets would be the first sustained military operations by U.S. forces in Iraq since American combat troops left in 2011.
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| Paris militant group had links to Britain - Wall Street Journal | |  The militant network behind last month's attacks in Paris had links to people in Britain, the Wall Street Journal said on Friday, citing unidentified Western officials. Several people suspected of having connections to Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the Islamic State militant and alleged ringleader of the Nov. 13 attacks, are based in Britain, according to two Western officials, the Journal said. The officials told the Journal those people, including some of Moroccan heritage, were based in the Birmingham area, in central England, about 120 miles (190 km) from London.
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| Exclusive - Investigators piece together portrait of Pakistani woman in shooting massacre | |  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Tashfeen Malik's path to accused mass killer in California began in a small city on the Indus River in Pakistan's Punjab province. It was from here, when she was a toddler, that she moved with her father Gulzar 25 years ago to Saudi Arabia, where he became more deeply religious, more conservative and more hardline, according to a family member. A picture slowly emerged on Friday of the role and possible motivations of 27-year-old Malik in this week's killing of 14 people in California, including her apparent pledge of allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State militant group, according to U.S. officials.
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| Czech MEP accused of trying to snatch 350 mln euros from Swiss bank | | | PRAGUE/BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Swiss police arrested a Czech communist member of the European Parliament and three Slovak nationals who tried to withdraw 350 million euros ($380 million) from a bank using forged papers, Czech and Slovak officials said on Friday. Czech Interior Minister Milan Chovanec confirmed the arrest of the four men. "Swiss authorities told our ambassador that Mr. Ransdorf was released (from custody), so I assume he could be on his way home now," Lenka Lagronova, a Czech foreign ministry spokeswoman, said on Friday. |
| FBI chief says no sign California shooters were part of larger group | | | The head of the FBI said on Friday that investigators so far had uncovered no evidence that would suggest the alleged shooters in San Bernardino were part of an organised group, even though the rampage may have been an act of terrorism. There is no indication that they are part of a network," FBI Director James Comey told reporters. |
| Al Qaeda group says staged Mali hotel attack in joint operation | |  Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) said it has joined forces with another militant group and together they staged an attack last month on a hotel in Mali's capital in which 20 people were killed, according to an audio message posted online. The leader of AQIM, Abu Musab Abdul Wadud, said in the audio speech his group was joining al Mourabitoun and the Nov. 20 attack on the Radisson Blu hotel was a symbol of their unity. The message was posted on Twitter on Thursday and seen by the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors radical Islamist organizations in the media.
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| Obama, UK's Cameron discuss fight against Islamic State - White House | |  U.S. President Barack Obama spoke on Friday with British Prime Minister David Cameron, a day after British bombers made their first strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria, to discuss the fight against the militant group, the White House said. The leaders "reiterated that all countries are welcome to join the existing coalition, if their political and military objectives in Syria are consistent with those of the coalition," the White House said in a statement. Cameron also expressed his condolences for the shootings in San Bernardino, California, this week, the White House said.
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| Japan's securities watchdog to recommend Toshiba fine on Monday - Nikkei | |  (Reuters) - Recommendation from Japan's securities watchdog to fine Toshiba Corp for accounting violations will be announced on Monday, Nikkei reported. A source told Reuters last month that the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission was likely to recommend the Financial Services Agency to fine Toshiba about 7 billion yen ($57 million), in what would be a record in the country for accounting-related violations. Toshiba, whose business spans household electronics to nuclear power, has said it inflated profits by about 155 billion yen over about seven years.
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| Colombia's FARC captures vacationing soldier, government says | | | Colombia's FARC rebels captured a soldier who was on vacation in the country's southern jungles, an incident that violates the group's unilateral ceasefire but will not affect ongoing peace talks if he is freed, the government said on Friday. Jesus Rojas was seized by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) near San Vicente del Caguan, in Caqueta province, while he was visiting family. The guerrilla group accused him of spying, Defence Minister Luis Carlos Villegas told reporters. |
| FBI investigating California shooting as act of terrorism | | | (Reuters) - Authorities are investigating the San Bernardino, California, shooting as an act of terrorism, Federal Bureau of Investigation assistant director David Bowdich said at a news conference on Friday. (Reporting by Suzannah Gonzales; Editing by Fiona Ortiz) |
| Accused California shooter raised no red flags in Saudi - source | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Accused California shooter Tashfeen Malik did not come to authorities' attention while living in Saudi Arabia, a source close to the Saudi government told Reuters on Friday. The source said Malik, 27, was not on any Saudi law enforcement or terrorism watchlist, and authorities had no reason to believe she was involved with extremist groups. (Reporting by Warren Strobel; Editing by Doina Chiacu and Andrew Hay)
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