but if she s placed her statement on an account that is not her actual name, tashfeen malik, sources somehow found this account. they have, and they re not saying how they re connecting it through yet. they re not letting the media know how they ve connected it through. we got this report from gw. we talked about this earlier in the week, right? 300 americans they track on social media, on twitter, and how it is that they communicated you mentioned the dark web. so much of this is happening online and it appears this posting was on the web. but here, again, going back to authorities in this investigation, if she s posted this statement, this pledge to the leader of isis, abu bakar al baghdadi, in the end, there are other people likely that were following her on facebook. so, if authorities have found this account under whatever name she s chosen to place it under, that, i would assume, means that they could find who s also part of her circle on facebook. that s the first thing
this was not meant to be seen by anybody looking at that facebook page. it was in essence kind of a dear diary posting. it was using the personal messaging function of facebook where you can, in essence, send a message that s to be seen only by someone else. so, it s not clear if she was just mailing this to herself, but she wasn t posting it for all the world to see. and indeed, it was taken down shortly after it was posted, but it was discovered as the fbi goes back through looking for electronic footprints that these two may have left. it doesn t say that this was directed by isis. it doesn t even say that isis was even aware of this, but it certainly strongly suggests that at least tashfeen malik was heavily influenced by isis propaganda, and it further suggests that she may have been the radicalizing influence on that couple. now, the picture you just showed is from taken off a monitor.
at this point, there is no indication that there is a mental health issue as it s traditionally defined with this couple. that s right. that their moet vacatitivati have been something else that s exactly right. and we have reports that the wife of the shooter, the female shooter in this, tashfeen malik, actually pledged her allegiance to isis. i heard that as i was coming in. as you know, i just got off a plane, but i heard that just breaking news just a couple of minutes ago, and so, it becomes it looks increasingly clear, though the fbi has not opined, but it looks increasingly clear that this is more than just some kind of dust-up at a workplace, particularly when you look at the cache of weapons, the visit to saudi arabia, the fact that she s posted this on facebook. it looks increasingly clearer like this is an act of terror,
tell them that she was about to carry out the attack, and does it inspire more attacks. they re going to want to go to each of those individual followers, figure out who they are, and then the spiderweb from there, right? and going back to that gw report on isis in america if she s on facebook posting something like this, one would assume here we have reports that they destroyed their cell phones, they tried to destroy computers in the home, but yet, you ve placed this statement that you ve got to know eventually will be made public. so, that is a way of claiming responsibility. which is apurpose. and it s flagrant, right? isis does this in their magazines. they thumb their nose, for example, against the russians after the plane went down. this is what they do. and al baghdadi has inspired this following around the world now in a way that bin laden attempted for decades, and now we re seeing people feel the need at least she felt the need to make it publicly known to a grou
the halifat was announced, she took her obligation to what she thinks is a higher form of islam, more orthodox form of islam, to an extreme. and that s what isis does when it radicalizes people, so this doesn t surprise me at all. malcolm, let me get your insight into something that pete brought up, which is that isis has not claimed responsibility. we ve heard nothing from, for lack of a better description, their official accounts, where they have claimed responsibility for other attacks, but i think you just made the point, it was isis who sent out this call to arms for jihadists around the world to take action. so, with that said, whether it s a lone wolf or this couple that launched this attack, this call has already been made. it s just a matter of who and where these people pick up the arms. yeah, you re absolutely right. and i just want to call attention to the fact that it was al qaeda in iraq, which is the predecessor to isis, the whole basis of isis, which