Posted on 08/05/2016 7:41:36 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The perpetrators of two attacks in Germany claimed by the ISIS terror group were given advice on the separate assaults by members of the jihadist organization, German media reports.
Without citing its sources, German weekly Der Spiegel said the two men exchanged messages with individuals using different phone numbers, including some that were registered in Saudi Arabia.
The Afghan teenager who in July went on an axe rampage on a train, wounding four tourists from Hong Kong and a German passer-by, had reportedly discussed how he would carry out the attack with his ISIS contacts. […]
In a separate attack that happened six days later on July 24th, a Syrian asylum seeker aged 27 named by German media as Mohamed Daleel set off an explosive device near an open-air music festival that killed him and wounded a dozen others. But Spiegel said messages from his phone suggest that the assault in the southern city of Ansbach was not meant to have been a suicide bombing. Rather, his contact had reportedly asked him to detonate the bomb and film the subsequent chaos before sending the footage to the ISIS. …
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No need for the spectacular attack...when they can instill fear with these lone attacker hits.
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