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Report: Farook Tied to Jihad Recruiter

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Hung out with a group who tried to join al Qaeda.

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Syed Farook, one of the shooters who killed 14 people in San Bernardino, had ties to a group of jihadists in California who were arrested in 2012 for trying to join al Qaeda, according to a CNN report citing the FBI. Investigators are specifically interested in a man named Sohiel Kabir, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison for being a recruiter who radicalized the others involved in the plot.

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