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New Details Emerge in San Bernardino Massacre FBI Takes Lead Role in Investigation - Obama Equates ISIL to Cancer
Yvette Velasco
Shannon Johnson
Tin Nguyen
Robert Adams
Nicholas Thalasinos
Sierra Clayborn
Mike Wetzel
Aurora Godoy
Juan Espinoza
Isaac Amanios
Harry Bowman
Daniel Kaufman
Benneta Badeal
Damian Meins
14 more lives lost. The victims were murdered last Wednesday in San Bernardino when two ISIL sympathizers burst into a holiday celebration and opened fire with automatic weapons. The carnage has spawned renewed calls for stricter gun controls, however permit requests for guns have skyrocketed and sales are brisk – Photos Courtesy of the Families of the Victims
BY TERRY MILLER With two more search warrants executed in San Bernardino and Redlands, investigators are discovering some new links to the massacre carried out by a young couple last week in San Ber-
nardino. The FBI says Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik were motivated by political ideologies. Over the Past weekend, new details came to light indicating that Farook and Malik, who were husband
and wife, supported the ideology of ISIS. They “were radicalized and have been for quite some time,” said David Bowdich, assistant director of the FBI’s Los Angeles field office. The FBI also said they did some target practicing a few days before the attack.
Some news outlets in New York have said Tuesday that 66-year-old father of Syed Rizwan Farook has been placed on the FBI’s terrorist watch list as investigators expand their probe to include the killers’ family members and friends. We contacted
Hampton and Madison Duke it Out at Council BY J. SHADÉ QUINTANILLA
Tyron Hampton.
The Pasadena City Council appeared to be divided over a report by the Office of Independent Review Group (OIR) about a police-involved shooting that took the life of Kendrec McDade, an unarmed black man, in 2012. On Monday, the council held a special joint meeting with the Public Safety Committee to have a discussion about the re-
port and the recommendations made by Robert Miller and Michael Gennaco, the authors of the independent review. The redacted report, which was recently made public last month, investigated the fatal shooting by police officers in 2012 and the police department’s inSEE PAGE 15
Steve Madison. -Photos by Terry Miller
Dave S. Jolly, Terrorist Screening center Spokesperson in Washington D.C, for comment on this. “The Terrorist Screening Center does not publicly confirm nor deny whether any individual maybe included in the U.S. Government’s
Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB) or a subset list. Disclosure of an individual’s inclusion or non-inclusion in the TSDB or on the No Fly List would significantly impair the government’s ability
International Human Rights Day with Vice Mayor Gene Masuda and the United Nations Association, Pasadena Chapter, for the 67th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015, at the Pasadena Central Library’s Donald R.
Wright Auditorium, 285 E. Walnut St. Every year, Pasadena joins communities around the world to celebrate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the U.N. General Assembly on
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67th Anniversary of Human Rights Declaration
For Everything Rose Parade
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