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It goes like this:
The suspects were naive enough to believe they wouldn't get caught. All the pipe bombs and ammo in their home suggest they were planning more than one attack, to take place maybe days or even weeks or months later. They would effectively become serial undercover jihadists leading dual lives. They had the perfect cover: wonderful young family with a new baby, good job, success story. Nobody would suspect them; and everybody that knew them is now stunned to find out that it was them. It doesn't make any sense that somebody with that much going for them would throw it all away committing acts of terror and mass murder.
But they screwed up. They wore masks into the Inland Center to avoid being recognized by his co-workers, but apparently some of them recognized his voice and build. Somebody there may have tipped off police as to his identity and police found the suspects' home. The suspects emerged from the home and police chased them to their ultimate deaths after a firefight.
Why would they do it? I dunno. Maybe just to cause general panic and terror in the land, possibly hoping to push the U.S. farther into the battle against ISIS. The public would naturally blame ISIS/terrorists for these unsolved terror attacks taking place every few days or weeks or months in southern California.
Who knows? 
ETA: Seems to fit the definition of a SLEEPER CELL.
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