Thursday, March 3, 2011

German prosecutor investigates the Islamic court in the bombing of Frankfurt

Frankfurt police suspect that Islamist terrorism was a determining role in the fatal shooting of two U.S. soldiers that took place yesterday at the airport in Frankfurt. The suspect, who has been identified as a 21 year old ethnic Albanian from Kosovo, will be brought before a judge today. Federal prosecutors special department against terrorism have taken on the investigation into the case.

A local police chief and interior minister of Hesse lander (center), Boris Rhein, have expressed the possibility that the case ofa terrorist attack, an argument several media quoted security sources. "Given the circumstances, we suspect that this attack is an act motivated by Islam," said federal prosecutor in Karlsruhe (West).

In the afternoon yesterday, the suspect entered the military bus mingling with the passengers and shot dead the driver and one passenger and injuring two others seriously. Also armed with a knife, the man tried to flee but was stopped a few meters by the police. Police said Arif is Uka, an Albanian from the region of Mitrovica who lived in Frankfurt and so far had no problems with the law, according to a senior official said the police in Kosovo.

According to German magazine Der Spiegel, the researchers said that was present at the airport with a gun show that can be treated with a crime planned. Furthermore, according to investigative sources, Arif Uka had been several times at the airport watching the movements of passengers and staff.

As reported in Der Speigel, the German police linked him to a Facebook page Islamist trend, which appeared this proclamation of Come Bin Khalid, a historic seventh-century Islamic leader: "The eyes of the cowards have no peace." The researchers said that was present at the airport with a gun show that can be treated in a planned crime, reports Laura Lucchini from Berlin.

Moreover, according to police sources, Arif Uka had been several times at the airport watching the movements of passengers and staff. In Mitrovica, the relatives of the accused have claimed that this was born and educated in Germany, where his family moved about 40 years ago. They described the suspect as a devout Muslim and said they worked at the airport.

It has established a special commission of inquiry comprising researchers from the U.S. police to elucidate the motivations of young Kosovar. The United States deployed its troops in Kosovo in 1999 when it launched a military operation of NATO bombing of Serb forces. U.S. troops are now monitoring a fragile peace in the country that declared independence from Serbia in 2008.

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