San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik pledged her allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a Facebook posting, according to a CNN report quoted there unnamed law enforcement sources.
Malik, who was killed in a shoot-out with police hours after she and her husband Syed Rizwan Farook killed 14 people, posted the pledge to the ISIS leader on an account using a different name, one of the sources told CNN.
The Facebook posting is the first direct link between Malik, who was born in Pakistan and her husband.
Investigators believe #SanBernardino female attacker Tashfeen Malik pledged allegiance to ISIS leader, officials say https://t.co/iJHMPrgAEd
-- CNN (@CNN) December 4, 2015
CNN quotes source suggested the massacre of the holiday party for the county's public health department employees was inspired by ISIS, but not necessarily ordered by the terror group.
Another source said it is "looking more and more like self-radicalization," CNN reported.
Investigators have not ruled out that a factor in the attack was a workplace dispute around religion. Farook, who was born in Illinois, worked for the San Bernardino public health department.
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