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Hamburg Killer Says He Wanted to be a Terrorist, But German Cops Insist He Was Mentally Ill
2017-08-01
Why cannot both these things be true?
[Breitbart] The Suddeustche Zeitung reports that the 26-year-old killer, a Paleostinian migrant who was on the lam in the country despite a terror investigation, the rejection of his asylum claim, and an enthusiastic willingness to be returned to Gazoo, told the authorities "It is important to be a ’terrorist’."

Ahmad A -- whose real, full name has not been released due to German privacy laws -- is said to have been radicalised at an unruly migrant shelter which is known as a hotbed of Islamic extremism subject to mass raids by the authorities.

A friend described how the suspect "began to change" one month before the rampage, in which he killed one and injured six others while screaming "Allahu Akbar".

"He suddenly prayed loudly in the hallway and was very aggressive. He was shouting at people in English: ’The West is killing Moslems all over the world’," said Yassar al-Adaoui Mustafa.

City interior minister Andy Grote has previously offered an unusual justification for the reluctance to accept the attack was terrorism, saying the suspect was "known as an Islamist but not a jihadist".

The killer was even entered on a database of known murderous Moslems.

Authorities have similarly insisted that nightclub shooting in Constance, which left one dead in and three seriously injured, was not terror-related.

The gunman -- killed in a shoot-out with police in which an officer was also maimed -- was an Iraqi migrant with a record of violent crime and drug offences.

Witnesses describe him opening firing "indiscriminately" but police believe he intended a targeted Dire Revenge attack following an argument with staff.
Update from The Times of Israel at 9:30 p.m. EDT:
Germany’s migration office says officials missed a deadline two years ago to deport Ahmad A, who arrived from Norway in early 2015. The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees told news agency dpa Tuesday that, in July 2015, the agency asked Norway to take him back. But the request was made one day after a deadline expired and Norway refused.

The office said it had been dealing with a large volume of asylum-seekers at the time.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  Nah, they embraced old school Soviet psychiatry. Merkel is happy.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-08-01 16:37  

#2  Embrace the healing power of "and," Deutschland.
Posted by: Barbara   2017-08-01 15:24  

#1  So?
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-08-01 09:10  

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