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Kosovar admits killing two US airmen in Frankfurt
2011-08-31
A 21-year-old Albanian from Kosovo has confessed to killing two US airmen at Frankfurt airport, saying that he had been influenced by Islamist propaganda online.

Arid Uka is charged with two counts of murder for killing Nicholas J Alden, 25, from South Carolina, and Zachary R Cuddeback, 21, from Virginia in March of this year. He also faces three counts of attempted murder in connection with injuring two others.

Prosecutor Herbert Deimer told the court in Frankfurt that Uka went to the airport "to kill an indeterminate number of American soldiers, but if possible a large number".

Uka confessed to the killings after the indictment was read, saying: "What I did was wrong but I cannot undo what I did."

He encouraged other radical Muslims not to seek inspiration in his attack, telling them not to be deceived by "lying propaganda" on the internet. "To this day I try to understand what happened and why I did it ... but I don't understand."
Sounds like he's angling to get a less than fifteen year sentence in Germany...
Uka said he had become increasingly introverted in the months before the attack, staying at home and watching Islamist propaganda on the internet. On the night before the crime, he said he followed a link to a video posted on Facebook that supposedly showed American soldiers raping a teenage Muslim girl. It was actually a scene from Redacted, a 2007 anti-war film by Brian De Palma.

He said he then determined to anything possible to prevent more American soldiers from going to Afghanistan. "I thought what I saw in that video these people would do in Afghanistan," he told the court as he wiped away tears. Uka admitted that the airman driving the bus had not been going to Afghanistan, when asked by the prosecutor.

The indictment says Uka went to the airport armed with a pistol, extra ammunition and two knives. Inside, he spotted two US servicemen arriving and followed them to their US air force bus. Sixteen servicemen were on or near the bus.

Uka approached one of them for a cigarette. He confirmed they were US air force members en route to Afghanistan, then "turned around, put the magazine that had been concealed in his backpack into his pistol, and cocked the weapon", according to the indictment.

He first shot unarmed Alden in the back of the head. He then boarded the vehicle shouting "Allahu Akbar" and gunned down Cuddeback, who was the driver, before firing at others. He injured two others -- one victim has permanently lost sight in one eye -- before his gun jammed and he fled. Uka was then chased down and caught.
Posted by:ryuge

#3  He will be going to a maximum security prison, or Langstrafenanstalt. But had his crimes been before 1970, he would likely have gone to a Zuchthaus, a prison for hard, physical labor, where prisoners worked to the point of collapse.

Many criminal Nazis spent their last days in such places. By 1970 few who did were still alive. German prison is not pleasant, like Sweden's.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2011-08-31 15:23  

#2  Let's see...wasn't Kosovo another NATO project?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2011-08-31 13:50  

#1  I hope victims' family sue Brian de Palma for murder incitation and complicity, or better yet, strangle him with his own intestines!

Or let the slimy creep enjoy the islamic justice he admire so much!
Posted by: hotspur666   2011-08-31 13:20  

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