may have been tied to them. i want to go straight to cnn justice correspondent pamela brown. this is huge when it comes to the role expanding, it appears, of enrique marquez, right, pamela? reporter: that s right. this is the friend and former neighbor of syed farook who we have known and talked about, that investigators that interviewed following the ak at thats. we know that he had purchased the two ar-15s in the attack. it s unclear and investigators don t believe at that time had point that he had knowledge of the san bernardino attacks, but we re learning poppy that he told investigators about the 2012 plot that have becnn was f report about, that he and syed farook back in 2012 had selected a target and then were going to launch an attack, but the two got spooked after there were four terror-related arrests in that area unrelated to what they were doing. and as a result, they decided to abort their plans.
san bernadino were radicalized years ago. reporter: the path to radicalization for this california couple began long before they committed mass murder in san bernadino, according to the fbi. in fact, there s indications their transportation into jihadis began even before isis emerged on the world stage in june 2014, making it difficult to determine exactly who inspired them and who might have helped them. had this couple started this attack, a year ago, but they might have glomed on to another organization. but it happened to be that isis is the biggest, baddest organization on the block and they carried the out in their name. whether they were part of that, it s unclear. reporter: a law enforcement official tells cnn fa ruk had explored reaching out to al qaeda affiliate. a facebook post on an account so he shoulded with farook s wife pledged allegiance to isis and used the word we, indicating the
to ana, the investigators are looking at everything, right? but they re really honing in on the bank account, the male shooter s bank account. he got this big loan, more than $28,000, in november, right before the attack. they re saying they don t think it appears he used that money in this attack, though, right? reporter: that s correct. we re told from law enforcement sources that they have accounted for all of that money. they believe half of it actually was doled out to farook s mother in the weeks before the shooting. you ll recall that the mother lived with farook and his wife in that same town home in the days, weeks, months leading up to the shooting. there s still big questions about what she may have known if anything about this plot. they ve also said that some of that money went to household items. they don t believe that the money went to finance the terror attack. it s believed that the weapons, the arsenal, ammunition that they had purchased all came before that loan w
enforcement officials who told cnn it does not appear there are any indications that there is somebody outside, a terror network or individual, who intentionally may have given money to farook and malik in order to finance the terror plot. but, as you mentioned, the finances are still something they re digging into so they haven t drawn any conclusions just yet. but they are looking very closely at a former neighbor, right, a former neighbor of the male shooter a man named enrique marquez. why are they still so interested in him? reporter: well, he, again, is the person who they ve now tracked a couple of the weapons to. he purchased two ar-15s that were used in the attack. what we ve learned about enrique marquez is he used to be the next-door neighbor to the farook family. in fact, we were out in that neighborhood yesterday talking with neighbors who say that they did see farook and marquez working together on cars in farook s family garage. now, marquez apparently has been talki
were radicalized by their own by different groups. . who would do that? let s say they are not getting radicalized back home as the suspicion was with malik. and, of course, if you think about the case of farook, he was here, a u.s. of the born citizen, he was presumingly radicalized over the internet or whatever. that s even scarier. it s scary but people just say, before isis, this has been going on a long time before isis. i mean, in 1993 we were hit in beirut, al qaeda came out in the 90s because of what we did in saudi arabia to help the kuwaitees. the ideology has been there the entire time. they just changed the name. before isis was isis, it was al qaeda in iraq. and al-zarkawi pledged allegiance to bin laden. the ideology has been there, it s just a question of what they call it. it s a certain form of radicalized islam.