Page 20 - Terrorism Charge News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Learned? >> we first told you about the attacks that marquez and farook wanted to do something in 2012. now we are learning how disturbing the plots were. syed farook and his friend enrique marquez planned to use pipe bombs for an attack at riverside community college where they were students, targeting the library and cafeteria area. they wanted to maximize casualties and they planned to start this attack by throwing pipe bombs into the cafeteria from an elevated position on the second floor and they planned a rush hour attack on a major highway where they would throw pipe bombs into cars and...

>> reporter: that's right. my colleague have been speaking to officials within the department of justice, and we were told that this debate of whether or not to bring the terrorism charge today went into late last night. in fact, it wasn't even on the table 24 hours ago. then within the last 24 hours it was included in this criminal complaint and there was some dispute about whether or not to wait on the terrorism charge, perhaps bring it later, whether to bring it at all. after all, this was an attack that marquez backed away from. this was a time when he turned away from radicalization and d...

This debate of whether or not to bring this terrorism charge today went into late last night. in fact it wasn't on the table 24 hours ago. and then within the last 24 hours it was included in this criminal complaint. and there was dispute whether or not to wait on the terrorism charge whether to bring it later or at all. this is an attack that marquez backed away from, this is the time he distanced himself from farook. >> i was talking about this with evan and we were under the impression there would be the weapons charges alone. >> so we know he purchased these ar-15s used in this shooting an...

What we're seeing is someone these are people inspired by the ideology but it's copyrighted. markez wanted to commit attacks a few years ago. there's a conspiracy to commit terrorism charge there and a conspiracy requires an agreement between two or more people to commit a crime even if the crime never occurs plus an overt or identifiable step towards the furtherens of the crime. there's other things as well, the weapons used by farook in his attack in our community. >> also, the charge of defrauding immigration authorities by entering into what the epidemic says was a shammed marriage.

Of information, the bureau was putting out. there was no specific information the fbi was talking to at the public been the concerns they had based on ramadan and the fours fourth of july holiday and chatter they were picking up. this my be a component of that chatter. what the fbi was doing early on in the last month or two were disruptions, going out and identifying people under surveillance, and even if they didn't have specific evidence that allowed them to arrest people on a terrorism charge. they wanted to get them off the street so they didn't pose a threat to citizens and they did that...