San Bernardino Terrorists

A California man accused of buying assault-style rifles used by a married couple to massacre 14 people at a government office in San Bernardino in 2015 has agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to provide material support to terrorists, prosecutors said on Tuesday.

The sound of a bell tolled through loudspeakers on Friday outside a building in Southern California, ringing once for each of the 14 people killed in a mass shooting by Islamist terrorists one year ago at the site.

The friend who bought the high-powered rifles used in the San Bernardino terrorist attack had ties to a group of California terrorists arrested in 2012 as they tried to fly to Afghanistan to join al-Qaeda, federal prosecutors said.

Investigators knew all along that finding important clues on the phone, which was a work phone owned by San Bernardino County, was a long shot.

The FBI cracked a San Bernardino terrorist's phone with the help of professional hackers who discovered and brought to the bureau at least one previously unknown software flaw, according to people familiar with the matter.

The FBI's announcement earlier this week that it may not need help from Apple to get into a terrorist's iPhone set off a rush of speculation over what novel, last-ditch solution the agency had stumbled on.

The FBI may have found a way without Apple's assistance to unlock the iPhone used by one of the shooters in the San Bernardino terrorist attack, Justice Department officials said Monday.

"They were targeted by terrorists, and they need to know why, how this could happen," a lawyer representing the victims said on Sunday.

Johnny Hockin was unsure how he felt about Apple chief executive Tim Cook's very public rebuke Wednesday of the federal government's demand for help unlocking an iPhone left behind by an assailant in the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California.

There may be secrets on the iPhone 5C used by the San Bernardino shooters, but the FBI apparently can't unlock them. The same security system that thwarts your drunk friend (or your cat) from getting into your texts is safeguarding the data of this terrorist duo.

The Justice Department will ask Apple for help in unlocking an iPhone belonging to one of the shooters who carried out the Dec. 2. San Bernardino, Calif., terrorist attacks, according to a court order signed Tuesday.

The Obama administration is overhauling its faltering efforts to combat the online propaganda of the Islamic State and other terrorist groups, U.S. officials said, reflecting rising White House frustration with largely ineffective efforts so far to cut into ISIS's use of social media to draw recruits and incite attacks.

With ISIS and al Qaeda using social media to propagate their message of hate and recruit jihadists, top US officials will soon meet executives of the top Silicon Valley IT companies to work out a plan to make it harder for terrorist groups to use such technology.

At a table inside the Indian Springs High School library, Mandy Pifer sat alone, the last name of her boyfriend killed in the San Bernardino terrorist attack printed on a label in front of her.

Pakistan remains a "safe haven" for terrorists and a source of "radical Islamist thought" while its security agencies support terrorist groups destabilising Afghanistan and threatening India, a top US lawmaker said on Wednesday.

A California man accused of buying assault-style rifles used by a married couple to massacre 14 people at a government office in San Bernardino in 2015 has agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to provide material support to terrorists, prosecutors said on Tuesday.

The sound of a bell tolled through loudspeakers on Friday outside a building in Southern California, ringing once for each of the 14 people killed in a mass shooting by Islamist terrorists one year ago at the site.

The friend who bought the high-powered rifles used in the San Bernardino terrorist attack had ties to a group of California terrorists arrested in 2012 as they tried to fly to Afghanistan to join al-Qaeda, federal prosecutors said.

Investigators knew all along that finding important clues on the phone, which was a work phone owned by San Bernardino County, was a long shot.

The FBI cracked a San Bernardino terrorist's phone with the help of professional hackers who discovered and brought to the bureau at least one previously unknown software flaw, according to people familiar with the matter.

The FBI's announcement earlier this week that it may not need help from Apple to get into a terrorist's iPhone set off a rush of speculation over what novel, last-ditch solution the agency had stumbled on.

The FBI may have found a way without Apple's assistance to unlock the iPhone used by one of the shooters in the San Bernardino terrorist attack, Justice Department officials said Monday.

"They were targeted by terrorists, and they need to know why, how this could happen," a lawyer representing the victims said on Sunday.

Johnny Hockin was unsure how he felt about Apple chief executive Tim Cook's very public rebuke Wednesday of the federal government's demand for help unlocking an iPhone left behind by an assailant in the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California.

There may be secrets on the iPhone 5C used by the San Bernardino shooters, but the FBI apparently can't unlock them. The same security system that thwarts your drunk friend (or your cat) from getting into your texts is safeguarding the data of this terrorist duo.

The Justice Department will ask Apple for help in unlocking an iPhone belonging to one of the shooters who carried out the Dec. 2. San Bernardino, Calif., terrorist attacks, according to a court order signed Tuesday.

The Obama administration is overhauling its faltering efforts to combat the online propaganda of the Islamic State and other terrorist groups, U.S. officials said, reflecting rising White House frustration with largely ineffective efforts so far to cut into ISIS's use of social media to draw recruits and incite attacks.

With ISIS and al Qaeda using social media to propagate their message of hate and recruit jihadists, top US officials will soon meet executives of the top Silicon Valley IT companies to work out a plan to make it harder for terrorist groups to use such technology.

At a table inside the Indian Springs High School library, Mandy Pifer sat alone, the last name of her boyfriend killed in the San Bernardino terrorist attack printed on a label in front of her.

Pakistan remains a "safe haven" for terrorists and a source of "radical Islamist thought" while its security agencies support terrorist groups destabilising Afghanistan and threatening India, a top US lawmaker said on Wednesday.