Just a 'hobby': Enrique Marquez admits building pipe bombs with San Bernardino terrorist

Greg P. | 9:42 PM on December 11, 2015

It was just a “hobby,” he said:

Officials: Enrique Marquez says he built pipe bombs as a hobby with San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook. https://t.co/m15rPt8XyX

— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) December 12, 2015

From CNN (emphasis ours):

Enrique Marquez, a former neighbor of Farook, told investigators he and his friend previously built pipe bombs, law enforcement officials said.

Marquez said he had nothing to do with devices found at the home of Farook and Malik, or the ones that apparently failed to go off at the site of the shooting, the officials said.

Marquez, who has spent several days being voluntarily interviewed by the FBI, portrayed the two men as hobbyists experimenting with building the devices, the officials told CNN.

He also boasted, one official said, that if he had made the bombs they would have gone off.

So not only did Marquez buy the rifles Farook and Malik used, he helped him become a bomb-maker?

Luckily none of the pipe bombs built by the “hobbyists” went off:

https://twitter.com/WickedSmaaaht/status/675501494934876160

#HobbyJihadi https://t.co/X6riT2wfqK

— RON COULTER (@RONCOULTER) December 12, 2015

As a "hobby"? Tennis is a hobby. Nose picking can even be considered a hobby. Building bombs is fucking illegal. https://t.co/pv6cyQ72q9

— ? Hot Boy Shock ? (@iAMshockley) December 12, 2015

https://twitter.com/NotASkeleton_/status/675501899643154432

Well I'm just glad the two #terrorists sucked at their "Hobby". Could have been worse then what it was! https://t.co/83BqbUGgwG

— Ralph R Fisk ATO, MEMS, PCP-1 (@FiskCG_EmerMan) December 12, 2015