As usual, the Muslim lies.of course he's part of the terror organization the
Muslim Ummah.

 

Allahu FUBAR.

 

B

Mar 3, 7:19 AM EST

 

Airport shooting suspect says he acted alone 

Virginian Pilot

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- A top security official says the suspect in the
slaying of two U.S. airmen at the Frankfurt airport has confessed to
targeting the U.S. military and says he acted alone.

Hesse Interior Minister Boris Rhein told reporters Thursday in Wiesbaden the
suspect, identified as a 21-year-old ethnic Albanian from Kosovo, was
apparently radicalized over the last few weeks, the DAPD news agency
reported.

Rhein says that the investigation indicates that he acted alone and did not
belong to a terrorist network or terrorist cell.

German federal prosecutors say the Wednesday shooting is being investigated
as a possible act of Islamic terrorism.

The suspect's family says he worked at Frankfurt airport and was a devout
Muslim.

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AP's earlier story is below.

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - The attack on a busload of U.S. Air Force troops
at Frankfurt airport that killed two is being investigated as a possible act
of Islamic terrorism, German federal prosecutors said Thursday.

Two airmen were also wounded late Wednesday when a man identified as a
21-year-old ethnic Albanian from Kosovo fired on the servicemen at close
range. His family said the young man worked at Frankfurt airport and was a
devout Muslim.

"The suspect is accused of killing two U.S. military personnel and seriously
injuring two others," federal prosecutors said in a statement. "Given the
circumstances, there is a suspicion that the act was motivated by Islamism."

Federal prosecutors said they had taken over the investigation of the
Wednesday afternoon shooting, and are working on conjunction with Frankfurt
and federal police, as well as American authorities.

The suspect was taken into custody immediately after the shooting and is to
appear later Thursday in federal court.

Frankfurt police spokesman Juergen Linker told the DAPD news agency that one
airman remained in critical condition after being shot in the head. The
other wounded airman was not in life-threatening condition, Linker said.
Both men were being treated at the Frankfurt University clinic. None of the
victims have yet been identified, pending notification of next of kin.

The attacker's family in northern Kosovo identified him as Arid Uka, whose
family has been living in Germany for 40 years. At his father's home in
Frankfurt on Thursday, a man yelled at reporters to "go away," threatening
to call police.

Kosovo is mostly Muslim, but its estimated 2 million ethnic Albanians are
strongly pro-American due to the U.S.'s leading role in NATO's 1999 bombing
of Serb forces that paved the way for Kosovo to secede from Serbia.

The U.S. Embassy in Kosovo's capital Pristina said in a statement that "the
act of a single individual will in no way affect the deep and abiding
friendship between our two countries."

The suspect's uncle, Rexhep Uka, said the suspect's grandfather was a
religious leader at a mosque in a village near Mitrovica, and that Arid Uka
was a devout Muslim himself.

But he said the family was pro-American and was also having a hard time
imagining that their nephew was involved.

"I love the Americans because they helped us a lot in times of trouble," he
told The Associated Press in Kosovo. "I had an American neighbor and we
never had a problem. What happened in Germany is beyond me."

Behxhet Uka, a cousin of the suspect, said he had spoken to the gunman's
father Frankfurt by telephone several times. The family told him that they
only knew that their son did not come home from work at the Frankfurt
airport on Wednesday.

"We heard about this from the local police, and it was confirmed that this
shooter was my first cousin," he said. "I would hope that this is not true,
but if it is true, it will be very hard for us here in Kosovo. We could not
imagine something like this would happen because Americans are our
brothers."

Frankfurt airport spokesman Alfred Schmoeger said he had "no information"
about Uka working at the airport, but said it was being checked.

"We have 70,000 people who work here at 500 businesses," he said.

Police said the attacker had an altercation with U.S. military personnel in
front of a bus outside the airport's Terminal 2. They said the man started
shooting, then boarded the bus briefly and was apprehended by police when he
tried to escape.

The airmen were based in Britain, a U.S. Air Force spokesman for the
Lakenheath airfield in eastern England said. They were bound to Ramstein Air
Base from where they were to have been deployed to support an overseas
operation, the U.S. military said, without elaborating.

The U.S. has some 50,000 troops stationed in Germany. It operates several
major facilities in the Frankfurt region, including the Ramstein Air Base,
which is often used as a logistical hub for operations in Afghanistan and
Iraq.

In Washington, President Barack Obama promised to "spare no effort" in
investigating the slayings.

"I'm saddened and I'm outraged by this attack," he said.



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