Slaughtering his co-workers wasn’t San Bernardino terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook’s only terror plan. For years he and a friend conspired and mapped out attacks at multiple targets that included a local school, according to authorities.
Enrique Marquez Jr., 24, who bought the assault rifles Farook used in the San Bernardino massacre, was charged Thursday with a terrorism-related charge alleging he plotted earlier attacks at Riverside Community College where he and Farook attended and against commuters on a congested freeway.
The duo, who had become adherents to radicalized Islam ideology as neighbors in Riverside, CA, plotted in 2011 and 2012 to maximize carnage by using pipe bombs and guns to kill innocent people at a campus cafeteria and those stuck in rush hour traffic, court documents said.
Those plans may never have come to light if not for the Dec. 2 attack where Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, used guns Marquez bought years ago to kill 14 people at a holiday meeting of Farook’s health department co-workers.
Marquez was charged with illegally purchasing the rifles that the shooters used again hours later in a gun battle with police. The couple were killed in the shootout.
Four years ago, police said, Marquez and Farook planned to toss pipe bombs into the cafeteria at the community college they attended and then shoot people as they fled.
They also planned to throw pipe bombs on a busy section of a freeway that has no exits, bringing traffic to a halt and then picking off motorists. Marquez would shoot from a nearby hillside, targeting police, as Farook fired at drivers from the road.
As part of the plan, Marquez bought two assault rifles — in November 2011 and February 2012. He said he agreed to buy them because “Farook looked Middle Eastern.”
Authorities previously said Marquez had legally purchased the guns Farook and Malik used. But the charges allege that Marquez lied by signing paperwork that said the guns were for himself or a family member.
Last year, Marquez married the sister of Raheel Farook’s wife. Prosecutors said it was a sham marriage to help the Russian woman obtain U.S. residency. According to the affidavit accompanying the charges, Marquez was paid $200 per month for the union and said his own mother and brother didn’t know about it.
The Associated Press contributed to this article
This should be headline news. It wasn’t anywhere in the San Jose Mercury. In fact, what was headline news in the Mercury this morning was a huge, 8″ X 11″ full-color advertisement to contribute to Debi Thomas’ GoFundMe page so she can make money selling gold bars. That’s what passes for news at the Mercury. If they’re not going to publish real news, I guess they gotta put something in their rag.
We will be seeing more and more of these attacks by radical Islam, against Americans…The result of many years of open boarders, not vetting people who are being let into America from terrorists countries, overstaying their visa etc…..These are not immigrants who want to assimilate, but to disrupt, and destroy our way of life.
Our own government is to blame for this outright assault on our freedoms, and the destruction of a once great country… All for money, power and greed, and, a One World Order! TRUMP 2016…..That is if there is another election…..And even if there is,
the system is so corrupt…… Our votes are now counted by SCYTL, a Spanish company which purchased the rights in 2012. With much controversy over a single electronic server, that gets a “first” look at the incoming votes…..And no paper trail…..
Manipulation…..YOU BET!…….How do you think Obama won, a second time?
This explains it all!!! What total corruption and manipulation! I agree, our government is to blame for this 100%. The system is totally corrupt. Thanks for the post.
Where was this in the media? Someone should make all this known. Your muslim neighbors are waiting for the right time to strike.
Do Ya Think it’s time to ” PROFILE “!!!!… this PC crap ( Israel & Commie promoted ) has been destroying us since its inception. their plan has worked … set the Americans up so that we are afraid to speak up and recognize the real bs that is going on and by whom….for all those afraid to speak up and for all the bleeding hearts that have no sense of belonging to anything but ” Group think “…You are the ones that got us into this mess for supporting the pc crap…and unfortunately the rest of us have to live with it… Beware of jonny head rag who moves in to your neighborhood… keep an eye constantly on he and his… ( most Americans have no idea what to look for ) Americans don’t know who the ” Enemy ” is and we have more than one… Wake up Wake up Wake the hell up…Be an American, be a role model , lead by example, quit bowing down to our enemies, stand and fight, quit running to the nearest anti-American road show, get a job, take responsibility, if you are from the male species then man up, if you are female quit screaching about how you are a victim…. Jonny head rag is looking for you, we better have eyes in the back of our heads…Hoo Raa ..AIRBORNE.
Terrorists that kill large number of people should not be killed,they should remove one eye,cut off thier toung so they cant talk,and castrate them and lock them up in a cathouse.
A lifetime of suffering would be better judgment than just plain killing them.
Keep posting Nancy! I knew nothing about SCYTL.