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DEATHNOTICES The program operates year-round with referrals from schools, local busi- nesses, Social Services, churches and individuals. All referrals are kept con- fidential. Food for the hungry uses 100 percent of all dona- tions to nourish the needy in southeastern Tehama County. For more informa- tion or to offer a referral, call coordinator Tom Jones at 228-2662. Drive FROM PAGE 1 "This has been long coming," Lucero said. "The (state level) court put out a Request For Proposal for behavioral or mental health courts and our court ap- plied. ... Before the court applied for this grant, we had all come together and agreed to start a small be- havioral court with a hand- ful of our clients and offend- ers who would benefit. We kind of got started with a small program and then got funding to enhance the program and be able to take more people into the program than we could do without the funding." The program will in- clude a full-time case man- ager and mental health cli- nician as well as a proba- tion officer, Lucero said. A team of people will take a look at those who have been referred to the pro- gram through probation, the court or jail staff and make a decision with the judge and the district attor- ney's office having final in- put into who is eligible. One of the requirements for the behavioral health court is that the person have a fel- ony offense. "Usually want happens is there is criminal activity that takes place and the as- sumption is that stabiliza- tion of the mental health of an individual would assist in decreasing that criminal behavior," Chief Probation Officer Richard Muench said. "We have about eight or nine participants in the mental health court. The first three or four were in- dividuals with fairly seri- ous criminal behavior tak- ing place that totally dimin- ished as a result of people stabilizing on the appropri- ate medication." All behavioral court par- ticipants are those who have gone through the sys- tem and are on some type of probation or other form of supervision, Muench said. In answer to a supervi- sor's question regarding im- pact to the Tehama County Sheriff's Department, there should be none aside from a fewer persons incarcerated, Muench said. There will be no additional staff needed as there are already person- nel in the budget that will be utilized. Mental FROM PAGE 1 By Joseph Krauss The Associated Press CAIRO For some, the turn to Islamic extrem- ism begins with a Google search, for others a stint in prison. Most of those who embrace such beliefs are young men, but not all. Many are loners or out- casts, while others leave behind family and friends who are shocked by their transformation. The attacks in Paris and California have many won- dering how seemingly or- dinary people, many from prosperous Western coun- tries, become radicalized. While certain patterns ex- ist, there are enough out- liers to confound law en- forcement and make it im- possible to anticipate every attack. The following are pro- files of nine individu- als from three continents who followed widely vary- ing paths to radicalization. AnisBouzzaouit, Belgium The son of a Moroccan- born market vendor and his Belgian-born civil servant wife dropped out of high school his senior year and later began to study sports therapy. But then he became outraged over the deaths and suf- fering of Palestinians in Gaza and the atrocities of Syria's civil war. He be- gan praying five times a day and became increas- ingly secretive. After turn- ing 18, he announced he was going to Syria to de- fend Muslims. His par- ents pleaded with him not to go, and his father even quoted the Quran to discourage him. They called the Belgian police and asked them to detain him before he boarded the plane, but were told there was no legal basis for doing so since he was an adult. By age 19, Bouz- zaouit had been killed on a Syrian battlefield. "A noble warrior," read the text message sent to his mother in February to an- nounce his death. Shannon Conley, Colorado A U.S. judge described her as an isolated high school dropout who was desperate for attention and needed counseling. She had few friends and an obsession with the military. Her radicaliza- tion began when she met a suitor online who per- suaded her to travel to Syria, where she planned to fight alongside him or serve as a battlefield nurse. FBI agents became aware of her interest in jihad af- ter she discussed it with members of her suburban Denver church, and they arrested her in April 2014 as she boarded a plane on her way to Syria. Conley was 19. She later said she was misled while convert- ing to Islam and learned only after her arrest about the atrocities committed by fighters she was taught to respect. Last January she was sentenced to four years in prison. Anonymous, Denmark The 21-year-old Muslim convert took an interest in Syria, mainly through on- line militant videos, while serving a prison sentence for assault and robbery. After his release, he made two trips to Syria to trans- port relief supplies and people. He says he never fought, but he posted pic- tures online of himself posing with heavy weap- ons. "It's my duty to travel down there. This is a Mus- lim cause," he told The As- sociated Press on condi- tion of anonymity so that he would not be identified by authorities. RADICALIZATION By Amy Taxin and Brian Melley The Associated Press RIVERSIDE The gunman who killed his co-work- ers in San Bernardino and the friend who bought the assault rifles used in the shooting were related through marriage and may have plotted an attack to- gether three years ago. New revelations from of- ficials and public records show a much deeper con- nection between Syed Riz- wan Farook and Enrique Marquez than previously was disclosed. Marquez has not been charged with a crime. Marquez purchased high- powered weapons at least three years ago that Farook and his wife used to open fire on a holiday gathering of Farook's fellow health inspectors Dec. 2, killing 14 people. Farook, 28, and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, 29, were killed hours later in a shootout with police, leav- ing behind a 6-month-old daughter. An FBI dive team on Thursday searched a small, urban lake about 3 miles north of the shooting site, though it was unclear what they were looking for. The search is related to the in- vestigation into the massa- cre, according to a law en- forcement official who was briefed on the investigation but was not authorized to speak publicly. FBI Director James Comey told the Senate Ju- diciary Committee a day earlier that the two shoot- ers were radicalized well before Malik came to the U.S. on a fiancée visa and they had discussed jihad and martyrdom as early as 2013. The bureau has said that Malik declared her alle- giance to the Islamic State group in a Facebook posting shortly before the attack. Investigators are trying to determine if Farook's path toward extremism predated 2013 and whether it led to plans to launch an attack in 2012, accord- ing to two people familiar with the investigation who were not authorized to dis- cuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. Marquez and Farook "were plotting an actual attack" that year, includ- ing buying weapons, but became apprehensive and shelved the plan because of law enforcement activ- ity and arrests in the area, said Idaho Sen. Jim Risch, a Republican who sits on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Marquez, 24, spoke with federal authorities after they raided his mother's Riverside house over the weekend. He and Farook were friends for years and became family last year with a sister-in-law in com- mon. The two men were listed as witnesses on the mar- riage license when Farook's brother, Raheel, wed a Rus- sian woman in 2011. Three years later, Raheel Farook and his wife, Tati- ana, were witnesses to Mar- quez's marriage to her sis- ter, Mariya Chernykh, ac- cording to Riverside County records. The ceremony took place at the Islamic Society of Corona-Norco, according to the marriage license, though the mosque's facil- ity manager denied it oc- curred there. AzmiHasansaidWednes- day that he understood Marquez had converted to Islam but said he was not a member of that mosque. Marquez had only wor- shipped there three to four times over seven years, said Hasan, who had not seen him in about four years. Marquez had a security guard license in Califor- nia for several years, but it expired last year. He had worked at Wal-Mart since May but has since been fired, spokesman Brian Nick said. He spoke of wanting to join the military, Viviana Ramirez, 23, a fellow stu- dent at Riverside Commu- nity College told the Los Angeles Times. His brother- in-law, Raheel Farook, is a Navy veteran who served from 2003 to 2007 and earned the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal and the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, among other awards. Marquez rarely spoke about his family or his mar- riage, Ramirez said. Tommy Lopez, who said he became friends with Marquez after meeting at a punk rock show seven months ago, said he never talked about his wife and was not religious. He last saw Marquez in the past month or so when Marquez fell asleep at a friend's house and they stacked beer cans on his body. "When he woke up, he just started laughing," Lo- pez said. "He was a pretty laidback guy." Right after the shooting, Marquez called his mother tosayhewassafebutthathe wouldn't be coming home, neighbor Lorena Aguirre said. He later checked into a mental health facility. It's unclear where he is now. CALIFORNIA SHOOTINGS Gun buyer, gunman linked by marriage, possible previous plot MICAH ESCAMILLA — THE SUN Members of the FBI Underwater Search and Evidence Response Team and bomb specialists work at Seccombe Lake on Thursday in San Bernardino. MILITANT PHOTO This image posted online by supporters of the Islamic State militant group purports to show Mohammed Dalaeen, a son of Jordanian parliament member Mazen Dalaeen. By Jonathan Lemire and Michael Balsamo The Associated Press NEW YORK A severed pig's head was left out- side a mosque in Phila- delphia. An Islamic center in Florida was defaced. A Sikh temple in California was vandalized by some- one who mistook it for a mosque and left graffiti that included a profane ref- erence to the Islamic State group. Advocacy groups be- lieve there has been a spike in anti-Muslim in- cidents across the United States in recent weeks that can be linked to last week's mass shooting in California and the inflam- matory rhetoric of Donald Trump and other Repub- lican presidential candi- dates. And they say that Muslims are fearful the backlash could lead to fur- ther harassment and vio- lence. "The spike began with the Paris attacks and has intensified with what hap- pened in San Bernardino and now with what Donald Trump is proposing," Ibra- him Hooper, lead spokes- man for the Council on American-Islamic Rela- tions, said Wednesday. "I have never seen such fear and apprehension in the Muslim community, even after 9/11." The FBI, which keeps statistics on hate crimes committed nationwide, said data about 2015 will not be available until next year. But the Anti-Defamation League said it has tracked more than three dozen in- cidents since the Nov. 13 terror attacks in Paris that left 130 dead. "We're talking at least three dozen that we're aware of and I'm sure there are many more inci- dents that haven't been re- ported," said Oren Segal, the director of the ADL's Center on Extremism. "With legit terror at- tacks and the public dis- course about them, it has created an atmosphere ripe for these types of ste- reotypes and incidents," Segal said. "People are ex- ploiting them." Segal said that the pace of the incidents appears to have picked up since the Dec. 2 shooting in San Ber- nardino that killed 14 peo- ple and injured 21 others. The suspects, Syed Rizwan Farook, and his wife Tash- feen Malik, later died in a gun battle with police. That incident prompted Trump on Monday to pro- pose a complete ban on Muslim immigrants into the US, triggering a fierce debate that has dominated the national political con- versation. Advocates say other GOP presidential candi- dates also have fueled anti- Islamic sentiment, includ- ing Ben Carson who sug- gested a Muslim should not be president and Rick Santorum who questioned whether the U.S. Constitu- tion protected Islam. "The ground had been primed for this kind of harassment by the ongo- ing demonization of Is- lam," said Hooper. "After 9/11 there were hate crimes on the edges of society, but now it's in the mainstream with the leading Republi- can presidential candidate saying Muslims are not wanted in America." POSSIBLE BACKLASH A er California shooting, fears of anti-Muslim harassment rise Profiles reveal numerous paths to extremism STEVEN M. FALK — THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, center front, joins with interfaith leaders to speak to the media in Philadelphia, a er a severed pig's head was found outside the Al Aqsa Islamic Society. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2015 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM | NEWS | 9 A