Obama to make primetime address after California attack
US President Barack Obama will make a rare primetime address from the Oval Office on Sunday night about terror threats in the aftermath of the deadly California shooting.
Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 29, stormed a holiday party in San Bernardino, California on Wednesday, killing at least 14 people and injuring 21 in the deadliest mass shooting in the US in three years. Hours later, the couple died in a fire exchange with police.
Obama will discuss the San Bernardino shooting and the broader threat of terrorism, the White House said in a statement on Saturday night.
The address at 8:00 p.m. will hit on the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group – which has claimed the California shooters as their followers -- and how the terror threat has "evolved, and how we will defeat it," according to the White House.
"He will reiterate his firm conviction that ISIL will be destroyed and that the United States must draw upon our values – our unwavering commitment to justice, equality and freedom – to prevail over terrorist groups that use violence to advance a destructive ideology," the White House statement said.
On Saturday, President Obama called the California shooting an act of terror carried out by attackers who were possibly radicalized.
"It is entirely possible that these two attackers were radicalized to commit this act of terror," Obama said. "And if so, it would underscore a threat we've been focused on for years - the danger of people succumbing to violent extremist ideologies."
The Pakistani relatives of the female shooter involved in the shooting say she and her father seem to have abandoned the family's Islamic traditions and become Takfiris during the time they spent in Saudi Arabia.
Malik's actions have horrified her Pakistani relatives, Reuters reported on Saturday. Her father severed ties with his family after a dispute over inheritance more than two decades ago, and moved to Saudi Arabia when his daughter was a toddler, the relatives told the news agency. There, it seems, he turned to extremism/Takfirism.
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