San Bernardino killer couple Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik had spent a year planning their terror attack — making a mockery of President Obama's speculations about "workplace violence" as FBI agents look into the presence of local terrorist groups!
Law enforcement sources now believe that Syed might have planned the attack as early as 2012 with an unknown third accomplice!
"This takes us back to square one," a law enforcement insider told The ENQUIRER.
"The speculation has been that Tashfeen radicalized her husband after he traveled to Saudi Arabia to marry her.
"But the more we learn about Syed earlier activity in California, the more it seems that he may have bonded with Malik over dreams of terrorist plots!"
Officials are taking some comfort in how a $28,500 deposit made into Farook's bank account shortly before the attacks might have been an attempt to scam a loan company — and not financial backing from more local terrorists.
"It would be consistent with them making preparations for Grandma and the kid," said a counterterrorism official.
But those preparations are what have authorities concerned!
"It's becoming increasingly obvious that these two had this planned out," said the insider.
"We're finding more evidence of years of target practice, and their personal affairs were laid out to accommodate their deaths in an act of terrorism!
"Now we're wondering how close Syed came to having a willing accomplice for an earlier attack!"
Even the White House has finally begun to address the San Bernardino massacre as a terrorist action after President Obama spent several days refusing to rule out the possibility of the attack being "workplace violence."
As The ENQUIRER reported yesterday, authorities were taking a second look at Farook's neighbor Enrique Marquez — the nerd-next-door who purchased the couple's killing machines!
Originally dismissing Farook's longtime pal as a goofy loner, authorities have since learned that Marquez attended the same mosque as Farook and Malik.
Marquez quickly placed himself inside a mental hospital after the shooting, and avoided FBI interrogation for several days.
"This investigation is just getting started," said the source.
"It's like the FBI director told the press — agents keep discovering evidence that doesn't make sense!"
