ISIS Claims Responsibility for German Train Attack

Townhall.com ^ | July 19, 2016 | Leah Barkoukis

[Kaslin]

Armed with an axe and a knife, a 17-year-old Afghan refugee on Monday night attacked passengers on a train in Germany, injuring at least five people.

The Islamic State has now claimed responsibility for the attack and said in a statement that the refugee was a member of the terror group who was responding to their call to go after countries that are part of the anti-ISIS coalition.

"Even during the first emergency call, a witness said that the attacker was shouting 'Allahu akbar' on the train," Joachim Herrmann, Bavaria's interior minister, told ZDF Television. "Also, during the search of his room, a hand-painted IS flag was found." […]

The attacker, who was not identified by the authorities, came to Germany two years ago as an unaccompanied minor, and applied for asylum in March of last year. He lived in a home for young refugees until two weeks ago when he was placed with a foster family in the Wuerzburg area. Investigators were talking to the foster family, witnesses and the attacker's friends.

The attacker injured at least four people on the train near Wuerzburg-Heidingsfeld on Monday night, and also a woman outside the train as he fled.

Witnesses said the interior of the train was covered with blood and looked "like a slaughterhouse," the German news agency dpa reported. About 30 passengers were on the train at the time; more than a dozen were treated for shock.

The attacker was shot and killed by a police special unit.

[Sam Gamgee]

Merkel basically fast tracked what was a slow death policy of other Europe nations. France under de Gaulle, under the need to play against the Anglo powers, made agreements with Arab nations that resulted in steady migration from their nations to France. In Denmark, at the time, I think the 80s when Hirsi Ali came over, didn't notice that many of its refugees were totally unthankful to their host country and wanting to bring Sharia with them.

Those elitist attitudes resulted in the huge Muslim minorities we now have. Merkel is intent on pulling a France in 1/20th of the time.

[Sam Gamgee]

I forgot about that. She is former Stasi I think.

[Sam Gamgee]

I understand why foreign policy is always on the bottom of the list of issues for voters. It doesn’t affect their ability to put food on tables. But this is serious stuff. The whole lesson of 911 is that we didn’t see the warning signs decades before. We have our Pokemon Go, the newest episodes of Game of Thrones, and many but not all of us a good job, so who cares if Allah comes marching in 30 years from now.

[EEGator]

I think she’s more of a softball/LPGA kind of “chick”.

[Paul R.]

I understand why foreign policy is always on the bottom of the list of issues for voters. It doesn’t affect their ability to put food on tables.

Actually, very often it does, but this is also often not well explained.

[Little Ray]

Coming here soon, I’m sure.