 Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, the couple accused of murdering 14 people at a holiday work party in San Bernardino, had also planned to blow up vehicles on crowded Southern California freeways, claim officials investigating this highly publicized case of domestic terrorism. Syed Rizwan Farook had allegedly been planning a massive terrorist attack on California's often congested 91 Freeway along with his childhood friend Enrique Marquez. The two had been scheming to unleash a 'nightmare' scenario using guns, pipe bombs and other weapons to murder innocent Americans. Officials claim Farook and his buddy mapped out the 91 Freeway in precise detail, pinpointing spots of congestion where they would best be able to inflict maximum carnage. The duo had collected an arsenal of weapons and explosives in 2011 that they planned to use in the attack, which they later abandoned in 2012. A criminal complaint filed in federal court accuses Marquez and Farook of identifying areas of the 91 Freeway without exits, where they intended to stand from nearby hills and chuck pipe bombs into oncoming traffic. The disruption would immediately halt traffic, then allowing the duo to shoot at motorists. Marquez is also being accused of plotting another similar terrorist attack at nearby Riverside City College, which is just a stone's throw away from the location where the San Bernardino attacks occurred. 'Ambushes in narrow passages with no escape routes have long been a staple of warcraft,' wrote Richard Winton for the Los Angeles Times about the alleged plot. 'Such tactics have been used in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, where U.S. military convoys have been hit with improvised explosives, rocket-propelled grenades and gunfire.' Government, media upping the terrorist game to instill more fear in Americans With the U.S. government chomping at the bit to launch full-scale war in Syria , it's only too convenient that Middle Eastern Islamists would suddenly choose December to randomly attack their co-workers at a holiday party. It's just the thing Americans need to hear during this time of year to accept more war, more government surveillance and more loss of civil liberties. And now with the sudden news that these same Islamists had also supposedly been planning to interfere with another thing near and dear to the hearts of many Americans driving the propagandists have just about sealed the deal. Fear, of course, is what drives people to give up their freedoms in exchange for a false perception of safety and security . 'Terrorists are constantly looking for ways of not only hitting people at large symbolic targets and events, but also during everyday routine activities as well, where civilians are most vulnerable and least able to escape,' stated Brian Levin, a professor at California State University in San Bernardino , to the LA Times . 'Transportation targets are fairly common with terrorists, but they usually involve mass transit, aircraft or bridges. A horrendous operation such as the one envisioned in the complaint not only confines civilians while they would be under vicious attack but obstructs and places first responders at risk from sniper fire as well.' Such fear-mongering comes as the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) recently announced that it's phasing out the 'opt-out' option at U.S. airports , which will force nearly all Americans who wish to fly to walk through naked body scanners and be blasted with cancer-causing radiation. If not for the constant threat of terrorism on airplanes, at school, at work and now (supposedly) on highways, these and other incremental destructions of civil liberties probably wouldn't fly with many Americans. But fear changes everything, and fear is exactly the tool being used to soften the blow of tyrannical fascism that's creeping into nearly every crevice of American life . 