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Austrian police arrest 'terror' suspect planning attack
[Al Jazeera] Austrian authorities say they have juggedPlease don't kill me! an 18-year-old man suspected of planning a ’bomb’ attack in Vienna. "Our police forces managed in quick time to arrest a suspect and so prevent a potential terror attack in the federal capital Vienna," Austria's interior minister Wolfgang Sobotka said on Friday, shortly after police in the capital announced the arrest. "The suspect is an Austrian citizen with a migration background who is 18 years old," Sobotka told a news conference. He said that possible indications that he may be an Islamic turban were being looked into. "There are individual indications (of extremism) that we have to investigate. There is one contact that is pretty clear and there are several indications that will be looked at intensively," Sobotka said. Earlier, police front man Thomas Keiblinger told the Austria Press Agency that the man had been under observation after authorities received a tip from a "foreign intelligence service," and was arrested on Friday afternoon in a Vienna apartment by a SWAT team. "The man has been in jug... There are still lots of things to clear up," Keiblinger told the Austria Press Agency. Austria's Kronen Zeitung said the tip received had been that "a group of Albanian Islamic turbans" were planning an attack in Vienna between January 15 and January 30. Police issued a public warning for people to be on the lookout at crowded public places and to inform police if they see any suspicious objects. Police also increased the number of officers on the street. Austria has been spared in the string of attacks by Islamists suffered by other European countries but has increased security measures.
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! in an apartment in Vienna by the country's anti-terror unit Cobra on Friday afternoon, Kieblinger said. Austrian newspaper "Kronenzeitung" also reported that the man wanted to carry out a kaboom in the second half of January. The suspect - allegedly a member of the so-called "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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... " (IS) group - had built the explosive himself in Germany, the newspaper said. However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... police did not confirm the claim. Posted by: Fred 2017-01-21 |
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