Reply With QuoteStrictly speaking, this is not a R.I.P. thread, but do we want to derail this thread by discussing definitions of terrorism?
Not the place...
Last edited by KoTeMoRe; 03-03-2011 at 07:06 PM.
Strictly speaking, this is not a R.I.P. thread, but do we want to derail this thread by discussing definitions of terrorism?
Actually it is a RIP thread, I'm erasing my post ATM.
News on the incident:
http://www.stern.de/panorama/attenta...a-1660025.html
After the attack, one of the US soldiers pursued the perp. Prior to that, the assailant had put the gun to his head and shot, but the gun jammed, so he fled. The US soldier followed him, took him down and waited until police forces arrived and arrested him.Nach dem Mordanschlag auf US-Soldaten am Frankfurter Flughafen hat die Bundesanwaltschaft am Freitag Einzelheiten bekanntgegeben. Danach hat einer der angegriffenen US-Soldaten den Attentäter überwältigt. Der 22-Jährige hatte die Verfolgung aufgenommen, nachdem ihm der Attentäter zuvor die Pistole an den Kopf gehalten und zweimal abgedrückt hatte. Die Kugeln lösten sich jedoch nicht, da sich eine Hülse im Lauf verklemmt hatte. Am Flughafen kamen dem Soldaten dann Polizisten zu Hilfe.
Great job!
Splendid, with balls of steel and an incredible amount of luck! Well done!
Outstanding indeed. Great restraint as well.
"Asymmetrical warfare" is a good neutral term that fits well with what's going on in our day.Originally Posted by Linedoggie
Good job. Bet the urge to beat him to death was strong.
I guess the perp is somewhat disappointed that he now gets a cell in Weiterstadt instead of 72 virgins.
Problem is he's going to be something of a hero among the large muslim population of your average german jail.
RIP to the dead soldiers.
What special treatment do prison heroes get?
72 anal virgins?
According to Spiegel:
* Arid U went to the airport armed with a pistol and 2 knives, looking for US soldiers
* As he spotted a group, he asked one for a cigarette and then asked if they were going to Afghanistan, when one answered yes and turned around to walk away, he was shot in the back of the head at close range, at least once.
* He then entered the bus, shot the bus driver in the head
* He then shot two other soldiers who survived with severe wounds
* He tried to shoot another in the head, but his weapon jammed, the soldier pursued him and captured him after a few meters
* The police arrived
What an ass. Executed 2 guys and tried for more.
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutsc...749057,00.html
No I'm rather afraid he will prison king as a genuine jihadi.
I hope they put him in some special prison like Stammheim or something otherwise he's going to be the hero of the moroccan drug dealer that makes up 50% of our prison inmates.
Statfor Red Alert - some time old by now
Two people were killed and two were injured, at least one critically, in a shooting attack on U.S. military personnel at 3:20 p.m. local time March 2 at Germany’s Frankfurt International Airport. According to breaking news reports, an armed attacker boarded a U.S. military bus idling in front of Terminal 2 and began shooting. The two killed were a U.S. soldier and the driver of the bus, whose nationality is unclear. The perpetrator is alleged to be from Kosovo, of Albanian ethnicity and 21 years old, according to German media sources. According to news reports, the U.S. forces involved in the attack were on their way to Afghanistan.
There have been plots against U.S. military targets in Germany in recent years. The attack fits in the category of “armed jihadist assault” similar to what American-born Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki called for in mid-2010 in jihadist Internet chat rooms. Al-Awlaki had been tied to U.S. Maj. Nidal Hasan, who was charged with the November 2009 Fort Hood shooting.
The attack in Frankfurt appears to have been a soft-target attack. Soft targets are vulnerable to attack due to the absence of adequate security or standoff distance. Areas at airports outside the security check-in points are such targets. STRATFOR has for some time predicted that militants would seek out such targets, especially considering their fixation on airplanes. The recent bombing at Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow, for example, targeted the international arrivals area where families, friends and drivers awaited travelers emerging from the terminal. Such areas are difficult to secure because doing so would require essentially cordoning off the entire airport.
If reports of the attacker’s ethnicity are true, this would not be the first time ethnic Albanians have joined international jihad. A number of Albanian individuals were part of the Fort Dix plot in the United States in 2007. U.S. authorities broke up a militant cell in North Carolina that involved an individual of ethnic Albanian origin. In 2009, a U.S. citizen of Albanian descent from Brooklyn, New York, tried to go to Pakistan for militant training. Albanian militants fighting in the Kosovo Liberation Army, however, largely eschewed militant Islam during their fight against Serbia in the late 1990s and in fact allied with NATO against the regime of then-Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic. Recent jihadist plots, however, indicate that the diaspora in the West has had a considerable number of cases of radicalization.
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I agree, or hope that he gets extradited... but I think the chances of that are virtually nil. It'll be a scandal if German justice uses the soft gloves on him. He deserves cold Krupp steel.
Cop killers get only 9 years in prison, what do you think he'll get?
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