There was something almost poignant about initial news media efforts to determine where the attackers in San Bernardino, California, were radicalised, and whether the wife,Tashfin Malik, who was Pakistani-born and Saudi-raised, had radicalised her US-born hus band, Syed Rizwan Farook. Both could have been, and probably were, radicalised on the internet, where Anwar al-Awlaki, killed by a drone strike, lives on through his sermons and addresses. Their neighbour Enrique Marquez became their co-conspirator,federal agents say,through individual contact with the couple far from the mosque.