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In 2011. what does that tell you about the motivation behind the terror attack? >> it tells me exactly what we're seeing today, the increase in the amount of home-grown terror and potential connections on the internet. when you're talking about joining aqap. al qaeda in the arab peninsula, that tells me he was interested in being the extreme range of the jihadi network a long time ago. isis has provided some opportunity for those who were in other organizations, aqap. aqim. boko haram, to consolidate in one organization. and that's an interesting dynamic. >> is the wife, evan, malik, mentioned...

Said that some of the social media, the electronic media, some of the investigation was revealing that it was a complicated picture about when they became associated with isis, the fact that on the day of the attack malik, the female shooter, expressed her allegiance to al baghdadi, was complicated by other evidence they were getting. and i think we're seeing some of that other evidence in the complaint. >> do you know specifically what the motive was of these two terrorists who killed these 14 people in california? >> well, i think they bought into the radicalized teaching. obviously not just...

Criminologist. >> you just heard, those that have reaction with the couple, their gut feeling is that malik is the one that influenced farouk. investigators are saying during the attack malik pledged loyalty to the leader of isis on facebook. is it your gut feeling that she may have been the one spear heading this whole mission? >> i have to tell you that based on what we know, this looks like the most likely scenario based on the people that knew them both and also based on the facts that we can not forget that sayed was born in american. he is an american citizen and was raised here. his cul...