Austria Arrests 14-year-Old 'Terror' Suspect
[AnNahar] A 14-year-old boy in Austria was remanded in jug Wednesday after telling police he planned to plant a bomb in a public area and join jihadists in Syria, authorities said.
The unnamed boy, a Turkish citizen living in Austria for at least the past eight years, had been under investigation since early October and was enjugged
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
on Tuesday, police said.
He told detectives he had "informed himself on the Internet... about making unconventional bombs," police in the eastern city of Sankt Poelten said in a statement.
He made "concrete enquirers about buying ingredients" for a bomb and "planned to explode the devices in public places, such as the Vienna Westbahnhof," a major train station.
The boy also wanted to travel to Syria and fight alongside turbans from the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group, police added.
Posted by: trailing wife 2014-10-30 |