Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani says only “a moron” would deny that Wednesday’s San Bernardino, Calif., mass shooting is terrorism.
“This is an act of terror without any question,” he said Thursday on Fox News’s “America’s Newsroom.”
{mosads}“If you can’t come to the conclusion at this point that this is an act of terror, you should find something else to do for a living besides being in law enforcement,” Giuliani continued. “You’re a moron.
“When you’ve got two assault weapons, two handguns, you’re in body armor, you’ve got a home that’s booby-trapped, you’ve been practicing to do this, sure, it may have been motivated by some argument in a party [but] this is a premeditated act of terror.”
At least 14 people died and 21 were wounded when multiple shooters opened fire at the Inland Regional Center on Wednesday.
Police then killed two suspects — identified as Syed Farook, 28, and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, 27 — during a shootout in nearby Redlands, Calif., later that night.
Giuliani argued that the motive for the attack remains the only loose end.
“The question is motivation,” he told host Bill Hemmer. “Is this part of the [Islamic State in Iraq and Syria’s] plot? Is it homegrown jihadism? Is it just insanity?”
The former mayor suggested recent radical Islamic terrorism might have inspired the bloodshed.
“There are a lot of suggestions that it has a connection with the Islamic faith,” Giuliani said.
“[Farook] went to Saudi Arabia,” he continued. “These are tactics that are taught by the Islamic State, encouraged by the Islamic State.
“These things would suggest that you’ve got to look at the very carefully. That’s where the FBI and the CIA is going to have a lot of information we don’t, [and] it’s irresponsible to draw a conclusion based on motivation.”
Farook was reportedly a devout Muslim who worked as county public health inspector in San Bernardino. Law enforcement officials are now looking for anything tying him or his spouse to terrorists.