The couple who killed 14 people in a California shooting rampage the FBI
is investigating as an act of terrorism borrowed about $28,000 from an
online lender, a sum deposited into their bank account about two weeks
before the attack, Reuters reports.
Disclosure of the unsecured loan the husband,
Syed Rizwan
Farook,
28, took out from San Francisco-based Prosper, a peer-to-peer lending
service, offered a new glimpse into the money trail under scrutiny by
investigators of last week's mass shooting.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has described Farook,
the U.S.-born son of Pakistani immigrants, and his Pakistani-born wife,
Tashfeen Malik, 29, as a couple "radicalized" by Islamic extremist
ideology.
Malik, who spent a good portion of her life in Saudi Arabia and married Farook there
before returning with him to California in the summer of 2014, is
believed by investigators to have pledged allegiance on Facebook to the
leader of the militant group Islamic State just before the killings.
That's the first picture of Tashfeen Malik at US immigration after she married Syed Farook in Saudi Arabia. She entered the country at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport on July 27, 2014. Photograph:US Customs and Border Protection/Handout/Reuters.