Father placed on terror watchlist, mother investigated as potential co-conspirator.
The FBI is now looking into both parents of California jihadist Syed Rizwan Farook – adding Farook’s father to the federal terror watch list and investigating his mother as a potential co-conspirator.
Farook, 28, and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, 27, were named as the shooters in the Dec. 2 killing of 14 and injuring of 24 at a Christmas party attended by San Bernardino County employees.
Law-enforcement authorities are monitoring Farook’s 66-year-old father, also named Syed, because both he and his terrorist son made trips to Pakistan. The father came to America in 1972 and became a citizen in 1999.
“Farook, although he is dead, is now officially listed by the FBI as a terrorist,” a federal law enforcement source told the New York Post Monday. “His father is watch-listed because of his close association to Farook and his extensive ties to Pakistan.”
As WND recently reported, Farook Jr. managed to fly to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia under the radar of federal authorities in 2014.
In the days following the San Bernardino massacre, the elder Farook attempted to distance himself from his son’s radical perspective, telling reporters, “His views were conservative. My views were liberal.” But the father also noted that his son had extremist views, hated Israel and had declared that “Islam will rule the world.”
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