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As attacks rattle Germany, Chancellor Merkel finds herself in the spotlight
dw.com ^ | July 25, 2016 | dw

Posted on 07/25/2016 10:23:47 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

The flags fluttering over Germany's parliament buildings on Monday morning were no longer flying at half-mast. But the country was still reeling from several attacks within the space of just a few days, which left several dead and many injured.

On Sunday, a man set off an explosive device near an open-air music festival in Ansbach, killing himself and wounding a dozen others. An Islamist motive was "likely," authorities said. This followed a shooting rampage in a shopping center in Munich on Friday, and an axe attack on a train in Würzburg on July 18 by a young man, which was claimed by the self-declared Islamic State.

The attackers on the train and in Ansbach were refugees, while the perpetrator of Friday's shooting rampage was of Iranian-German descent.

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TOPICS: Germany
KEYWORDS: germany; merkel
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1 posted on 07/25/2016 10:23:47 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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was of Iranian-German descent

No, both parents are 100% Iranian, 0% German descent there.

2 posted on 07/25/2016 10:29:25 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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Exactly. The media push to twist these incidents away from the obvious is starting to look ridiculous.


3 posted on 07/25/2016 10:31:35 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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Syrian refugee, Iranian descent - the article ignores the obvious - both are Muslim!


4 posted on 07/25/2016 10:34:12 AM PDT by CottonBall
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Oooh, ‘the spotlight’. Bfd. She faces no real political consequences.


5 posted on 07/25/2016 10:39:04 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Moltke

Parents were Iranian....resettled in Germany, got citizenship. Kids were born in Germany after they became German citizens, if the journalist story is true. So, they would ethnic-heritage Iranian-Germans.


6 posted on 07/25/2016 10:39:07 AM PDT by pepsionice
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What people might not be aware of, is that the family attacked on the train with an axe was from Hong Kong.

Not long ago I was on a train with my daughter and a family that looked like they could be from Hong Kong (not saying the same people) shared their box of animal cookies with us.


7 posted on 07/25/2016 10:39:30 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Moltke

So are they still going with the right-wing NAZI angle on that Iranian-German-Iranian?


8 posted on 07/25/2016 10:40:23 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Seems like she has been taking that whole “there’s no such thing as bad publicity” thing to new lengths.


9 posted on 07/25/2016 10:41:02 AM PDT by Marko413
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Barney (Fox Business) is not counting the Munich terrorist act as a Islamic event. How is Germany categorizing it?


10 posted on 07/25/2016 10:42:37 AM PDT by Chgogal (A woman who votes for Hillary is voting with her vagina and not her brain.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

What happened to the machete attack?


11 posted on 07/25/2016 10:44:07 AM PDT by Senator_Blutarski
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These are the "muslim migrant families" Merkel and Obama are bringing into Germany and the USA.

MERKEL'S MARAUDERS



12 posted on 07/25/2016 10:46:23 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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Officially investigations are on going and the press will not proclaim it as a terror attack on their own.

Personally, I hardly follow German news reporting because it is so nondescript as to be boring on any given subject.

I think by now people understand that there are fanatics and crazies inspired by Islam who want to kill people. The question to what degree of one or the other is superfluous.


13 posted on 07/25/2016 10:51:23 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Danke!


14 posted on 07/25/2016 10:52:36 AM PDT by Chgogal (A woman who votes for Hillary is voting with her vagina and not her brain.)
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To: SpaceBar
Merkel as deer-in-the-headlights....


15 posted on 07/25/2016 10:58:19 AM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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16 posted on 07/25/2016 11:01:45 AM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Merkel’s solution will be to stop denying asylum to Muslims so as not to anger them.


17 posted on 07/25/2016 11:02:12 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is always just one or a thousand or a million more murders away from utopia.)
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The minute she denies them anything, they’ll storm her office. Nowhere to run. Nowhere to hide.


18 posted on 07/25/2016 11:06:06 AM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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I look forward to that day.


19 posted on 07/25/2016 11:07:47 AM PDT by angcat (TRUMP!)
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Merkel’s solution will be to stop denying asylum to Muslims so as not to anger them.

Angela Merkel = Oma Chalmers lol

20 posted on 07/25/2016 11:21:39 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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