Posted on 03/07/2011 9:53:01 AM PST by knighthawk
Arid Uka, the 21-year-old Kosovar who has admitted to killing two US airmen in Frankfurt, was a loner only recently turning to radical Islamist ideology, according to investigators.
German federal prosecutors continue to piece together a profile of the man responsible for what is increasingly believed to have been a terrorist attack on US military personnel at Frankfurt Airport on Wednesday.
Born in Kosovo but raised in Frankfurt, Uka is being described by investigators as a loner who took to radical Islam over the course of just a few weeks.
Armed with a Belgian Fabrique Nationale semi-automatic pistol and a large quantity of ammunition, the ethnic Albanian attacked a bus used to transport US military personnel outside the airport terminal. He shot dead one US airman in front of the bus before also killing the driver. Two other servicemen were seriously injured.
He then fled into the terminal building before being subdued and arrested. The man admitted early on during his interrogation that he wanted to kill US soldiers. Working at the airport’s international postal centre, Uka knew his way around the facility, and likely observed the US military bus service beforehand.
Though his ultimate motive for the attack remains unknown and there were no indications he was part of a terrorist cell, it appears he had recently started calling himself a jihadist named “Abu Reyyan” on the social networking website Facebook.
Under his Islamist handle he spread jihadist hymns on YouTube online, professed hatred of Jews and Shiite Muslims and took part in violent computer games.
Within just four or five weeks, Uka is thought to have established contact to radical Islamist preachers including the Moroccan Sheik Abdellatif and German Muslim extremist Pierre Vogel.
Though his family are devout Muslims, they are not considered to be Islamist radicals.
Roland Desch, the head of the Verfassungsschutz domestic intelligence agency in the state of Hesse, said on Thursday it was still too early to call Arid U. a home-grown terrorist. But he admitted the incident was likely proof how quickly individuals can be radicalized.
“This is an attack that came from nowhere,” said Hessian Interior Minister Boris Rhein.
Investigators said that only trouble with his pistol jamming and his quick apprehension by two federal police officers and a US serviceman hindered a larger bloodbath.
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Nowhere? That's some major denial there, Herr Rhein.
“This is an attack that came from nowhere,” said Hessian Interior Minister Boris Rhein.
FOS bloody imbecile.
“This is an attack that came from nowhere,”
“no apparent motive”
“police are stymied for a motive”
“apparent random killing”
“no connection with terrorism seen”
Ahh, the lies and mental contortions that the left goes through so as to avoid saying that the ideology of the cult of death inspired the subhuman to murder innocent people.
“This is an attack that came from nowhere,” said Hessian Interior Minister Boris Rhein...
Alrightee... Let me see if I can help.
His Family are devout Muslims.
Presumably that means they believe the koran and hadiths (sayings of Mohammad) should be followed.
These writings state that the muslim should war on the Non-Believers. Murdering 'infidels' is encouraged and will win the muslim who dies while killing 'infidels' an express ticket to his 70 virgins in Mohammedan 'heaven'...
This attack came from nowhere????
-- Winston ChurchillHow dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.
Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.
If you understand anything at all about religious people somewhere along the line they have to answer the question.
"What does it profit you to gain he whole world, but suffer the loss of your soul?
He decided to do what God (ALLAH) wanted done, at the risk of losing his own worldly life.
Try reading the Koran and Hadiths if you have trouble understanding his motivation you dumb naive Infidel. - Tom
What is frustrating is the common set of multicultural political attitudes that insists that because all Muslims aren't like this, we must act as if none of them are. And, worse, that the people who get killed because of this set of self-imposed blinders are somehow an acceptable price to pay to answer the accusations of oppression. That's simply an unacceptable price to pay to assuage feelings of guilt, and phony guilt only compounds the offense.
That's why Peter King's hearings on are the mark--you can have a population of generally non-violent, law-abiding Muslims but some individuals in the group will either be recruited or "get religion" and decide they have a mission to kill non-Muslims. The peaceful Muslims want to ignore the problem and the Democrats want to win their votes by claiming any attempt to deal with the problem is a case of Republicans showing religious bigotry against Muslims.
There is no way we are going to get all the Muslims to leave America--many are US citizens by birth. I haven't known a lot of Muslims but I have met several who were very decent people and no threat to anyone--on what grounds would they be forced to leave the country? The problem is getting the peaceful Muslims to get serious about helping--and the Democrats' tactics are designed to discourage that from happening.
When are those Germans going to man up and kick all of those people out of their country? I need a second country my kids can flee to if the US becomes intolerable.
Came right outta the boonies eh? Whatever happened to the German police services? You’d think they’d be, I dunno, more knowledgeable to these type of things.
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Do we need any more proof that Islam is evil?
A stand-alone terrorist. No organization needed for his "religion" to prompt him to mass murder. Just convert and start killing.
This is not going to end well for Islam. But it certainly will end.
The writer is full of BS. We all know the motive. He is a Muslim. That is the ultimate motive.
I don't know how much German ancestry is enough--a lot of Americans have some German ancestry but mixed in with other ethnic groups. I had 3 great-great-grandparents who were immigrants from Germany--I don't know if that's enough (I know the exact place of birth of only one of them, but she's the ancestor from whom I get my mitochondrial DNA). In any case, if the Democrats totally destroy the US, I think I would prefer to live in another English-speaking country in preference to Germany.
I hear what you’re saying, the problem is, what’s happening in the US is happening in the UK at a greater intensity. Australia’s politicians and those of New Zealand are seeing to it that those 2 nations turn into refugee dumping grounds as well. Which means, within a few decades, you’d probably be no better of living in Syria.
“This is an attack that came from nowhere,” said Hessian Interior Minister Boris Rhein.
WRONG!
Thanks for the ping.
I don’t foresee living long enough to see the day when Syria is a more desirable place to live than Germany (maybe in the 2nd century B.C. but not since), or any other country in Europe for that matter.
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