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He called 911 hours after the attack to say his neighbor had used his gun in the shooting, using an expletive to describe Farook. |
Marquez lived next door to Farook, 28, who introduced him to Islam 10 years ago. Marquez told authorities he converted to Islam around age 16 and four years later was spending most of his time at Farook's home, reading, listening to and watching "radical Islamic content" that included al-Qaida instructions on how to ma... |
Four years ago, Marquez said, he and Farook planned to toss pipe bombs into the cafeteria at the community college they attended and then shoot people as they fled. |
He said they also planned to toss pipe bombs on a busy section of freeway that has no exits, bringing traffic to a halt and then picking off the occupants. Marquez would shoot from a nearby hillside, targeting police, as Farook fired at drivers from the road. |
Authorities previously said Marquez had legally purchased the guns Farook and Malik used. But the charges allege that by buying the guns for someone else, Marquez made false statements on the background check paperwork. |
The FBI has said Farook and Malik were radicalized before they met online in 2013, but the court documents detail how much earlier Farook had turned down that path and plotted violence. |
Marquez said he and Malik aborted their plans after authorities interrupted a terror plot in the area in November 2012 that involved four men who wanted to join al-Qaida to fight U.S. forces overseas. |
He said they didn't see much of each other after that unraveled, though he deepened his connection with the Farook family, which also led to an immigration fraud charge against him. |
Both men were witnesses at the wedding of Farook's brother, Raheel, to a Russian woman in 2011, according to Riverside County marriage records. |
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. |
About a month before the attack, Marquez made a reference to the marriage and living "multiple lives" in a chat with a fellow Facebook user that foreshadowed the trouble he was facing before any bullets started flying. |
"Involved in terrorist plots, drugs, anti-social behavior, marriage, might go to prison for fraud, etc," according to the affidavit by FBI agent Joel Anderson. |
Right after the shooting, Marquez called his mother to say he was safe but that he wouldn't be coming home, neighbor Lorena Aguirre said. |
When she visited him in the hospital two days later, he again referred to Syed Rizwan Farook by an expletive and said he did not know "he was going to do that," Anderson said in the affidavit. Marquez also said he no longer wanted Farook as a friend. |
The next day, federal agents raided his mother's house in Riverside, a city near San Bernardino that is about 60 miles east of Los Angeles. |
Armida Chacon has said her son is a good person who loved to hang out with friends and go to parties. |
"I don't know how this happened," she told The Los Angeles Times. "My world is upside-down." |
Marquez's friends were shocked to learn he was linked to the attack and described him as a friendly, easygoing guy who was not religious and rarely discussed his family or marriage. |
"I still can't believe this is going on," said Viviana Ramirez, who met Marquez through an online forum when they studied at Riverside Community College. "I just want people to know he's not a bad person." |
Marquez was a licensed security guard for several years, but his license expired at the end of 2014. He was providing security at the bar where he worked until Dec. 2. |
He posted a cryptic note that day on Facebook, according to the affidavit: "It was a pleasure knowing everyone." |
Wally Watch: Where we read Wally Hall so you don't have to. |
Discerning readers will note that it's been a while since we've published a Wally Watch. But, we're happy to drag this feature out of the moth balls - with a different twist. Instead of the usual focus on a specific column or two, what follows is a collection of Wallyisms - those wonderfully bizarre, illogical and gram... |
Note: These Wallyisms were collected not by us but by a source who has requested anonymity. We realize that guessing the identity of this source will soon become a favorite parlor game of Razorback fans, but do not bother to ask us to reveal this brave man's name. The protection of confidential sources is something tha... |
2/26/2006: There wasn’t enough right guards to handle Arkansas’ defense in the second half here. |
3/08/2006: Her office is a plethora of sports pictures. |
3/14/2006: They also run a zone defense, which has not been something the Razorbacks have been very comfortable with this season, although matchup zones have not been as troublesome and that’s what Bucknell runs. |
11/26/2006: Understand that many members of the media have been campaigning for five years that a rule be added that only conference champions are eligible for the national title, along with, of course, Notre Dame, which has the sweetest deal of all college teams when it comes to BCS bowls because every day when they w... |
11/26/2006: Florida is going to key on McFadden and double up on Monk, and if they don’t, Urban Meyer should be fired, but of course that won’t happen because that’s exactly what they will start preparing to do today. |
2/20/2007: Where does one look to find someone who is willing to accept the challenge of not only replacing a legend, but smooth the deep wrinkles in the fan base and pick up speed as the Razorback ship sails deeper into the 21st century? |
2/22/2007: Steven Hill got two free throws with 6:00 to play and it was obvious, the team that played the least bad down the stretch was going to win this one. |
3/6/2007: The question now seems to be what has the last two games done to help Heath get back for another season. |
3/6/2007: Incidentally, it was after that game the comment about a player spending more time in English class was made in this space; well, on Sunday, my mom suggested the same could have been said for me at 18. |
3/30/2007: That’s the type of man Gillispie has always been. His word is his bond. So at least half the people in the agreement was a gentleman. |
5/8/2007: Eventually, the two were approached by yours truly, and do understand those four-legged beasts scare the dickens out of me, and it was interesting to note that each time High Heels turned the corner into sight until she turned the far corner and went out of sight, Hartlage’s eyes were on her. |
1/9/2008: A BCS title game record crowd came with enthusiasm and left with sore throats. They were vigilant in their belief cheering makes a difference. |
2/8/2008: When you consider that 57 of the first 100 players taken in the 2007 NFL Draft had been a three-star player or less coming out of high school, you understand why he has to trust his and his staff’s eyes more than those of recruiting sites. In fact, there was some very real discrepancy this year among the top ... |
The following are recent arrest released by the Greenwich Police Department on Jan. 23, 2019. |
A 28-year-old Scott Road resident was charged with disorderly conduct. |
A 29-year-old Scott Road resident was charged with disorderly conduct. |
A 76-year-old Hollow Wood Lane resident was charged with sixth-degree larceny. |
A 59-year-old Wilbur Peck Court resident was charged with sixth-degree larceny. |
DiamondTrust.com was hit with a UDRP just after selling on NameJet. |
A domain name investor has successfully defended the domain name DiamondTrust.com in a UDRP filed just after he won the domain name on NameJet. |
James Kim of South Korea won an auction for DiamondTrust.com for $1,319 at NameJet in October last year. Diamond Trust Consultancy (UK) Limited filed a UDRP against the domain name the following month. |
Kim said that he registered the domain name for its descriptive value and was unaware of the complainant. He pointed out that he owns a number of other domain names with “diamond” or “trust” in them. DiamondTrust.com had just expired after being owned by the same registrant for 17 years, and Kim noted that the complain... |
A three-member panel agreed with Kim and provided some good material for similar UDRPs in the future. |
…there is very little, if any, evidence before the Panel to suggest that such a degree of renown attached to the Complainant’s mark that the Respondent, based in the Republic of Korea, should have been aware of the Complainant’s registrations or of its business under the DIAMOND TRUST mark…. |
…In short there is insufficient evidence before the Panel to infer that the disputed domain name was acquired by the Respondent in order to sell it to the Complainant and other than for the purposes of holding as part of its domain name portfolio for eventual resale in the course of its usual domain name broking activi... |
It also helped that Kim had a parking page with keywords related to the descriptive nature of the domain name. |
Kim was represented by ESQwire.com. |
‘James Kim of SouthKorea.com ‘. SouthKorea.com is owned by Reflex Publishing. |
Wow. I meant to type just “South Korea”. Shows you where my brain is! |
It also shows the mental conditioning we all have developed after 20 years of advertising and marketing to type in “.com” after a common phrase. Verisign has an enviable asset indeed. |
Haha … The domain industry effect. |
It’s nice win. It could help a lot of us along the road. |
Good to see a “domainer” win these cases! |
Thanks for writing this up. |
Seen a PC burn before? You have now! |
Install Top Exhaust Fan Through Metal? |
Finally a Solution to the Door/Drive Rail Problem ! |
Susan Danger is from the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU in Brussels, and Robert Scott is from the Economic Policy Institute in Washington. |
They’ve been under threat for the last nine months. But today a potential deal has been unveiled to save most of Britain’s Tata steelworks. |
Hamilton boss Martin Canning praised the professionalism of Darian MacKinnon after the midfielder signed a new deal with the Lanarkshire club. |
The 31-year-old, who joined Accies from Clydebank in 2012, has extended his contract to May 2019. |
Ahead of Friday’s Ladbrokes Premiership clash with Rangers at the SuperSeal stadium, Canning said: “In the last six weeks he has probably been on the best run of form for the club. |
“He is one of those players who doesn’t really play poorly but I think he has been excelling in the last few weeks and it is something that we have been looking to do, tie him down for a bit longer. |
“His attitude is great. I think he is 31 now but he is as fit as they come. He is a natural athlete. |
“He gets about, he looks after himself off the pitch as well. |
The terrible soap opera that keeps getting canceled and moved to other, less-watched networks that is Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez’s relationship has just popped up in the tabloids again, and it’s all thanks to a series of Instagram comments their fans were able to screengrab in time. God bless them. |
Funny how the ones that cheated multiple times, are pointing the finger at the ones that were forgiving and supportive, no wonder fans are mad. Sad. All love. |
Selena then posted several pictures of herself hugging her fans. |
Symoné’s “projects” are likely to include deciding what to eat for dinner, calling Time Warner to complain about her wifi signal, and picking up a package at the UPS office. |
Free agent linebacker Vontaze Burfict is scheduled to visit the Oakland Raiders, according to a report from NFL Network's Tom Pelissero. |
That didn’t take long: Vontaze Burfict is on his way to visit the #Raiders, sources tell me and @RapSheet. #Bengals cut the veteran LB yesterday and his old DC, Paul Guenther, is in Oakland. |
Burfict was released by the Cincinnati Bengals Monday after seven seasons with the club. Burfict's old defensive coordinator in Cincinnati is Paul Guenther, who now runs the Raiders' defence. |
The 28-year-old Burfict was limited to seven games last season from a combination of injuries and suspension. Burfict missed the first four games of last season for violating the NFL's policy on performance-enhancers, marking the third year in a row Burfict was suspended. He finished the year with 33 tackles. |
Gabrielle Giffords' romance with astronaut Mark E. Kelly crosses cities, time zones—and sometimes atmospheres. Sandra McElwaine spoke to the couple last fall about how they make marriage work. |
As a congresswoman married to an astronaut, Gabrielle Giffords is usually the one worrying about her spouse’s safety. |
Her husband, Commander Mark E. Kelly, a Navy pilot and NASA astronaut, has been space traveling since 2001, and is slated to blast off once again later this spring to command STS 134 Endeavor, where he will rendezvous with his fellow astronaut and twin brother Scott. The penultimate scheduled shuttle of the NASA progra... |
The couple, who first met in China seven years ago, may have Washington’s most unique marriage. Since their wedding in 2007, they have yet to live in the same zip code. While he is based in Houston, she splits her time between Washington D.C. and Tucson. But wherever they are, they are in constant contact. Both carry B... |
Launch and re-entry are the most difficult parts of her husband’s trips. “You have to be strong and detach yourself from what could happen,” Giffords told me last fall. |
Their dialogue began when they met in China seven years ago at a conference aimed at strengthening relations between the U.S. and China. Kelly was married at the time, and Giffords was dating someone else. But after he divorced, the couple struck up an email and phone friendship. GIffords sometimes advised him on datin... |
When she ran for Congress in 2005, he began showing up at her campaign stops. And Giffords was at the launch pad for the take off of his Discovery mission in 2006. They were married the next year at an organic farm in Amado, Arizona. "She had it all," Kelly told The New York Times in 2007 in their wedding announcement.... |
Because of their intense work schedules, the couple has never spent more than a few weeks at a time together. “It’s a unique situation, but it works well,” Kelly told me. Describing himself as "determined and resourceful” in getting where he wants to go, he commutes regularly to Tucson on weekends. “She has a more time... |
Last fall, Kelly said he had yet to figure out his role as a political spouse, but believed he was “useful” on military and scientific issues and advised her on those areas. "I do think that’s somewhat helpful,” he said. |
Correction: An earlier version of this story included information reported by Politco that Giffords awoke briefly after surgery and was able to recognize her husband. |
Sandra McElwaine is a Washington correspondent for The Daily Beast. She has been a reporter for The Washington Star, The Baltimore Sun, a correspondent for CNN and People magazine, and Washington editor of Vogue and Cosmopolitan. She has also written for The Washington Post, Time, and Forbes. |
It’s reasonable to hope Kavanaugh will vote to overturn Roe. It’s also proper for him not to commit to doing so. |
It’s a clever line, but I think it gets more wrong than right. |
Speaking for myself — but I trust not only for myself — I very much want the Supreme Court to stop pretending that the Constitution protects abortion. I think that there is a good chance that Judge Kavanaugh, if confirmed, will vote that way, and it’s one of the reasons I want him confirmed. While I think Hayes oversta... |
But I can’t guarantee that Kavanaugh would vote to restore legislative authority over abortion policy. People who claim that they know he would vote that way are going beyond the evidence and should be corrected. |
Second, because making that kind of commitment about any charged political matter would strike many people as improper, and as evidence of an improper political deal, and thereby make confirmation less likely. |
Another important qualifier is that wanting Roe to remain part of our constitutional law is not the same as insisting that nobody who disagrees should be on the Supreme Court. I have never seen anyone poll whether voters believe a justice should be confirmed “even if he refuses to commit to upholding Roe v. Wade,” or “... |
No doubt this is extremely frustrating for Roe’s most devoted supporters. They can’t make a nominee commit to overturning the decision and then block him on that basis. They can’t make a nominee commit to upholding it and thus neutralize him on the issue. And they don’t have enough support to defeat a nominee for refus... |
To be or not to be a socialist hellhole, that is the question. Sorry, I couldn’t help myself. |
Last weekend, Trish Regan, a Fox Business host, created a bit of an international incident by describing Denmark as an example of the horrors of socialism, right along with Venezuela. Denmark’s finance minister suggested that she visit his country and learn some facts. |
Indeed, Regan couldn’t have picked a worse example — or, from the point of view of U.S. progressives, a better one. |
For Denmark has indeed taken a very different path from the United States over the past few decades, veering (modestly) to the left where we’ve veered right. And it has done just fine. |
American politics has been dominated by a crusade against big government; Denmark has embraced an expansive government role, with public spending more than half of G.D.P. |
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