ISIS propagandists are continuing to boast on Twitter about the Islamist group's connections to the San Bernardino, California, massacre, and are mocking President Barack Obama's statement that there have been no credible threats against the United States during the holidays.
The attacks occurred on the same day an Islamic State video vowed attacks on Washington and New York City, says a report by the
Investigative Project on Terrorism, and began to heat up after law enforcement officers killed suspects Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, after they shot and killed 14 people at an office party for Farook's work colleagues.
According to investigators, Farook, an American citizen, became radicalized and communicated with Islamic terrorists and his wife, a Pakistani national, pledged her allegiance to ISIS in the minutes after the mass murders.
An ISIS-linked news website confirmed Friday that "two supporters of the Islamic State" carried out the San Bernardino rampage. Jazrawi described it Friday as "a planned attack," which an intelligence source confirmed to the Investigative Project on Terrorism on the condition of anonymity.
In a tweet on Friday, ISIS supporter Magrebi Witness mocked President Obama's assertion of no credible threats against the U.S. during the holidays.
"California# The Islamic State# has demonstrated its ability to strike America on its doorstep at a time in which the American Administration is saying that there is no threat of 'terrorist attacks,'"
@MagrebiWitness tweeted in
Arabic:
The same Twitter account also features several news items from Syria and Iraq, while its owner describes himself as "a Moroccan Nanotechnology Engineer reading, sharing and commenting on world news | Geopolitics | Psychology | We reject extremism and terrorism."
Meanwhile, another user,
@Jazrawi_Daesh, warned on Thursday, before Twitter took his account down, that more assaults are expected, saying "expect more, you kuffar terrorists."
He has also taunted Americans, saying that the United States is the "easiest place to go kill kuffar," and tweeting to followers to "just move to a stage that sells assault rifles guns and go target practicing in shopping mall."
Yet another user,
@Muslimah_9_11, on Friday
posted an image of an ISIS jihadist in front of an image of New York City's skyline, complete with an ISIS flag flying over the Empire State Building and the text " "Rivers Of Blood Await America: Coming to at State Near You."
The same person also
tweeted an image of the U.S. Capitol backed by the ISIS flag and surrounded by jihadists armed with rocket-propelled grenades.
"#IslamWillDominate#SanBernadinoShooting#SanBernadino When you start war, always that chance you will lose," Muslimah said in text accompanying the graphic, and in a subsequent tweet vowed that the ISIS will "raise the flag of Allah in the White House.
The latest tweets followed a series of Tweets on Wednesday and Thursday by several other ISIS supporters who were using the #AMERICAONFIRE hashtag to support the shootings in California and to praise the two shooters as "martyrs."
On Friday, an
ISIS-linked website, published in Arabic, confirmed that "two supporters of the Islamic State" carried out the rampage.
"The strikers are a couple of Pakistani origin, with the attack comes after days of statements by US officials that the United States is far from "terrorist attacks," the website said. "The operation comes after Paris bloody attacks carried out by fighters of State on 13 November last year, which claimed the lives of dozens, and after a martyrdom operation on the presidential security amid the Tunisian capital.
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