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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/10/us/san-bernardino-massacre-fbi.html?_r=0
WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, said Wednesday that the couple who waged a shooting rampage in San Bernardino, Calif., last week had been talking of an attack as far back as two years ago, before the United States gave the woman approval to enter the country.
The disclosure raised the possibility that American immigration and law enforcement authorities missed something in the woman’s background when they granted her the approval. It also suggested that the attackers had been inspired by groups that were far older than the Islamic State, which rose to prominence in 2014.
The couple were “talking to each other about jihad and martyrdom before they became engaged and married and were living in the U.S.,” Mr. Comey said.
Mr. Comey said that the “investigation to date shows that they were radicalized before they started courting or dating each other online.”
The couple, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, met online before she moved to the United States in 2014.