Male San Bernardino shooter in touch with Syrian jihadist group praised by neocons

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Saturday December 05, 2015 · 12:19 PM PST

2015/12/05 · 12:19

From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Petraeus

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Did you know that Syed Farook was allied with David Petraeus against ISIS?

Neither did I, until I saw this LA Times piece:

One of the assailants, Tashfeen Malik, pledged allegiance to an Islamic State leader in a Facebook posting, officials said. Her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, had contact with people from at least two terrorist organizations overseas, including the Al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front in Syria, a federal law enforcement official said.

Now remember, David Petraeus said a little over three months ago that we should be hooking up with Al Qaeda in order to stop ISIS:

The latest brilliant plan to curtail Isis in the Middle East? Give more weapons to current members of al-Qaida. The Daily Beast reported that former CIA director David Petraeus, still somehow entrenched in the DC Beltway power circles despite leaking highly classified secrets, is now advocating arming members of the al-Nusra Front in Syria, an offshoot of al-Qaida and a designated terrorist organization. Could there be a more dangerous and crazy idea?

So, if hubby was Al Qaeda and wifey was AQ’s archenemy ISIS, that kinda cancels each other out, don’t ya think?

In other words, this was terrorism of the workplace violence “going postal” sort — and in fact it was all inflicted on civil servants — not the FOX-ews-desired jihad that serves as pretext to start pogroms against brown people with names like Syed.

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