Islamic State said on Saturday that a married couple who killed 14 people in California in an attack the FBI is investigating as an “act of terrorism” were followers of the [jihad] group — “soldiers” who were “killed in the path of Allah.”

The group’s declaration, in an online radio broadcast comes three days after U.S.-born Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his spouse, Tashfeen Malik, 29, a native of Pakistan, carried out the attack on a holiday party for civil servants in San Bernardino, about 60 miles (100 km) east of Los Angeles.

The two died hours later in a shootout with police.

U.S. government sources have said Malik and her husband may have been inspired by Islamic State, but there was no evidence the attack was directed by the [terrorist] group or that the organization even knew who they were. The party the couple attacked was for workers in the same local government agency that employed Farook.

The White House on Saturday continued to insist that there is no indication that the shooters are part of a larger terrorist group.

A team of top officials,  including FBI Director James Comey, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, told President Barack Obama “that they had as of yet uncovered no indication the killers were part of an organized group or formed part of a broader terrorist cell,” the White House said in a statement.

[They claim they were just a part of the “religion of peace”.]

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