Pakistani security seeks to tamp down reporting on California shooter

Reuters ^ | 6 December 2015

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Pakistani security forces appeared to be trying to dampen down reporting this weekend on the background of Tashfeen Malik, who mounted an attack alongside her husband that killed 14 people in California.

Three professors at Malik's university said they had been advised not to talk to the media, while men claiming to be from Pakistan's security agencies told reporters to drop their investigations into her background on pain of arrest.

An official at the interior ministry later said this was due to a "misunderstanding".

U.S. authorities are treating last Wednesday's mass shooting in San Bernardino as an "act of terrorism". Malik, 29, and husband Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, were killed two hours later in a shootout with police.

The Iraq- and Syria-based Islamic State jihadist group has claimed the couple as its followers, although it has not said it was in contact with them or that it directed the attack.

Malik was born in Pakistan but spent most of her life in Saudi Arabia before she came to the United States to marry her husband, a U.S. citizen. She had a degree in pharmacy from a university in Pakistan's central city of Multan.

On Sunday, three professors at Bahauddin Zakariya University, which Malik attended, said they had been instructed by security agencies not to speak to reporters.

One, who asked not to be named, said security officials visited the university on Saturday and removed records and pictures of Tashfeen.

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[Jet Jaguar]

One of those “vetted” immigrants.

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.....Men claiming to be from security agencies, but who refused to provide identification, also sought to discourage Reuters from further reporting on Malik's background, threatening journalists with arrest for unspecified offences. "Whether you consider this a request or a dictation (order), I would advise you not to pursue this story," one said. Tim Craig, a reporter from the Washington Post, tweeted that police had prevented him from leaving his hotel in Multan. "I've lost track of how many different security/intel officials I've had to talk to, copy my passport, etc in past 17 hours - think 12 to 16," he tweeted.

[o_1_2_3__]

Didn’t Obama just say that there was “no proof of an international connection”?

[bunkerhill7]

Osama deja vu

[T-Bird45]

Pakistan is not exactly the partnership Obama described tonight.

[Celtic Conservative]

If Pakistani security seeks to “tamp” down reports ofthe SB killers does that make them tampons?

CC

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[arthurus]

It id not Terrorism. It is simple old-fashioned(1400 years old fashioned) jihad. It is what Moslems do. It is all in their operating manual.

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[WENDLE]

Pakistan should be bombed into impotence and occupied mercilessly. They harbored KNOWINGLY!! Osama Bin Laden in the shadow of their huge military base in Abbottabad, Pakistan.. THEY FRICKING KNEW!@!~. And now this moslem PAKISTANI bitch shows up. Here is a clue for proper “diplomacy” with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. - Bomb them hard until they beg that this will NEVER HAPPEN OUR OUR SOIL AGAIN!! Let them police it to survive!!

[Lurker]

Our “steadfast allies”, the Pakistanis.

Spit...

L

[MrBambaLaMamba]

Unleash the Great Satan on Islam.

[dragnet2]

They don’t want other cells ID’d.

[mikeIII]

How short is our memory - these are the 2 countries from where 9/11 was hatched and executed!

[WENDLE]

Bush was horrible. He facilitated the flights of Sunni bastard from our country and diverted our attack to the wrong damned country!@! IRAQ??— You have to be kidding me!!

[vette6387]

Pakistan is just like Saudi Arabia. They are both sponsors of global Islamic terrorism. A nice neutron bomb would fix both of them.

[mojito]

Bump.

So Mrs. Jihad was a Paki agent?

If so, I'm sure that Barry knows it. Did he bring her here on purpose?

[Candor7]

security officials visited the university on Saturday and removed records and pictures of Tashfeen.>>>>>>>>>>>>

The Obama fix is in.

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