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| Bavarian bomber pledged allegiance to Islamic State: minister | |
| 2016-07-26 | |
[REUTERS] The Syrian who went kaboom!in southern Germany, wounding 15 people, had pledged allegiance to 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.... on a video found on his mobile phone, the Bavarian Interior Minister said on Monday. On searching the bomber's room, Nuremberg police found diesel, hydrochloric acid, alcohol, batteries, paint thinner and pebbles - the same materials used in the bomb - and computer images and film clips linked to the krazed killer group, they said. "A provisional translation by an interpreter shows that he expressly announces, in the name of Allah, and testifying his allegiance to (Islamic State leader) His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... ... an act of Dire Revenge against the Germans because they're getting in the way of Islam," Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann told a news conference. "I think that after this video there's no doubt that the attack was a terrorist attack with an Islamist background." Islamic State grabbed credit for the bombing, according to Amaq, a news agency that supports Islamic State. Nuremberg police chief Roman Fertinger said the influence of Islamic State could be seen on the bomber's computer. "There was also a laptop that showed pictures and film sequences that glorify violence and are unequivocally linked to Islamic State," he told a news conference. The attack on Sunday, outside a music festival in Ansbach, a town of 40,000 people southwest of Nuremberg that has a U.S. Army base, was the fourth act of violence by men of Middle Eastern or Asian origin against German civilians in a week. The 27-year-old arrived in Germany two years ago and claimed asylum, a federal interior ministry front man said. He had been in trouble with police repeatedly for drug-taking and other offences and had faced deportation to Bulgaria.
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| Posted by:Fred |