THE PLOT THICKENS – AT 9:08 A.M. ET:  Except for ideological leftists, which, sadly, means most of the Obama crowd, it's now established that the San Bernardino shooters were, at minimum, terrorists in training.  From Fox: 

Federal investigators believe there is a "very serious" possibility that Tashfeen Malik, one of two shooters who murdered 14 people and wounded 21 others in San Bernardino, Calif. Wednesday, radicalized her husband and co-assailant, county restaurant inspector Syed Farook, Fox News has learned.

Investigators also believe that the couple had planned a second attack after the shooting at a social service center for the disabled when they were killed in a shootout with local authorities approximately two miles away.

Little is known about Malik's background prior to her meeting Farook. However, a U.S. official confirmed to Fox News that the two met and became engaged after Farook traveled to Saudi Arabia in September 2013. Malik, a Pakistani citizen, applied for a K-1 visa at the American embassy in Islamabad in May 2014 and Farook traveled to Saudi Arabia that July to bring her to the U.S. The Saudi Embassy in Washington has confirmed that Farook's 2014 trip lasted nine days.

They were married on Aug. 16, 2014, in nearby Riverside County, Calif. according to their marriage license. Both listed their religion as Muslim.

Investigators believe that on at least one of those trips to Saudi Arabia, one or both members of the couple made contact with suspected Al Qaeda terrorists. The exact nature of that contact was not immediately clear.

Rita Katz, director of SITE Intelligence Group, an organization that tracks and analyzes extremists, told the Associated Press it hasn't found any connection between Farook and jihadi groups. But she also said that some of Farook's social media posts seem to have been deleted before the attack.

Law enforcement sources told Fox News late Thursday that there was a "very strong" possibility that Malik functioned as Farook's terror trainer and may have even put together pipe bombs found by authorities at the various crime scenes Wednesday.

COMMENT:  The key revelation is that the shooters probably planned a second attack.  This would have been consistent with the planned technique of the Paris massacres.  Those attackers also planned a second assault that didn't come off.

At the same time, the usual suspects in media are still "struggling" to understand the "motives" for the San Bernardino shooters.  Oh, the anguish.  Oh, the lack of cultural understanding.  Maybe the shooters were "offended" by some anti-Muslim remark.  Maybe they were "offended" by the Christmas decorations at the party they attacked.  In the hours after the attack, some left-wing groups assumed the assailants were right-wingers.  Blame anyone but the guilty.

December 4,  2015