They're saying he was "radicalized" on the Internet, but no one is explaining how or why. Such investigations might cut too close to issues the authorities would prefer the public not think about.
"Frankfurt gunman in US airmen killing kept radical company on Facebook," by Isabelle de Pommereau in the Christian Science Monitor, March 4:
Arid Uka was a typical product of Frankfurt, a city where a third of the population is not originally from Germany. An ethnic Albanian born in Kosovo and raised Muslim, he grew up in a middle-class family in Germany and lived with his parents and siblings. It was only recently that he turned to radical Islam, apparently connecting with extremists on Facebook and online jihadi forums.On Wednesday, Mr. Uka became the first person to successfully carry out a terrorist attack in Germany since 9/11. He has been charged with killing two US airmen and wounding two others at the Frankfurt airport in an act that German prosecutors say Uka carried out on his own. In court Thursday, he confessed to the killings and said he shot the four men because he felt America was at war with Islam.
"We have a new ... perpetrator of terrorism, the lone wolf," says Bernd Georg Thamm, a security expert based in Berlin. "Terrorism experts have dreaded this for a while, and now it’s happened. And it won’t be the last case."
This is why Thamm makes the big bucks.
While Uka may have been acting alone, he appeared to be prepared for the attack when he approached a bus full of American airmen in front of the Frankfurt airport's terminal two. The Blue Bird bus carrying about a dozen members of the US Air Force pulled up just outside where Uka worked as a mail sorter at the airport postal service....Prosecutors say that before opening fire on the airmen, Uka yelled "Allah Akbar" ("God is greatest"), an Arabic phrase that is used to express all kinds of emotion but is often used as a jihadi battle cry. After the shooting, officials say, he dropped the gun, ran into the terminal, and was captured.
Online jihad
The Internet seemed to have provided Uka's path to radicalism. On his Facebook wall, he linked to jihadist songs, talked about "kuffar" (infidels), and railed against Americans and Jews....
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Saudi Arabia drafts in up to 10,000 troops ahead of protests
Saudi Arabia is drafting in up to 10,000 security forces to the north eastern Muslim Shia provinces ahead of mass protests planned next week.
Desperate to avoid mass uprisings against the House of Saud, security forces have deployed in huge numbers across the region.
King Abdullah is also reported to have told neighbouring Bahrain that if they do not put down their own ongoing Shia revolt, his own forces will.
In response to the massive mobilisation, protesters are planning to place women on the front ranks to discourage Saudi forces from firing on them.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/8363212/Saudi-Arabia-drafts-in-up-to-10000-troops-ahead-of-protests.html
So he was ethnic Albanian but as he shot four men he yelled "Allahu Akhbar" which is Arabic. Maybe he learned Arabic to broaden his worldview and wanted to share it with the guys he shot.
Arid Uka was a typical product of Frankfurt, a city where a third of the population is not originally from Germany.
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I recognize journalistic clichés when I see them, sure—but this is total crap. Certainly, Frankfurt is full of immigrants from Poland, and Greece, and Russia, and Italy, and the Ukraine, and Estonia, and many other places besides.
How many of these tens of thousands of immigrants in Frankfurt—*with the exception of Jihad-minded Muslims*—is apt to launch a terrorist attack at the Frankfurt airport?
Few to none.
"Frankfurt gunman in US airmen killing kept radical company on Facebook,"
since that company proformed instant Islamic radicalization I would hope the authorities are making note of just whom the Muslim killer was talking with,...
aaaaaaarggg....
"performed"...
The internet? ...hmm, the internet was not around when perverted muhammed (perdition is upon him) became radicalized. Gosh, this is such a head scrather.
Arid Uka is a typical example of a European raised Mohammedan terrorist. It's of no importance if he's Albanian or whatever, he hates the West.
"Prosecutors say that before opening fire on the airmen, Uka yelled "Allah Akbar" ("God is greatest"), an Arabic phrase that is used to express all kinds of emotion but is often used as a jihadi battle cry..."
Ah yes, that patent ole jihadi battle cry...
And the Muslims sure do do alot of that "Allah AKBARKING" now don't they...
It goes hand in hand with Muhammad's self-defeating, perverse cult of Islam. It's a package deal...
The terrible reality of insidious Islamic warfare is reluctantly dawning, at least upon some in the German media:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,749173,00.html
Franz Josef Wagner, a columnist for the mass-circulation daily Bild, writes:
"Dear American soldiers, your president is shocked, and we are, too. Two of your comrades became victims of Islamist violence at Frankfurt Airport, and two other soldiers are in critical condition. The perpetrator reportedly shouted 'Allahu Akbar!' ('God is great!') as he attacked you. It is the first Islamist attack in Germany."
"The terrible thing about this attack if that it is so close to our normal life. … The awful truth of the Frankfurt attack is that nobody is safe any more."
/place women on front to discourage Saudi forces firing on them/
Whilst their ingenuity (I mean, it's not like the Palestinians do this kind of stuff!) and great courage in placing their women (whom they clearly love) out in front is remarkable, knowing how men in the Islamic world treat women, I think this will encourage them to shoot at them. They've brainshed themselves into the liberal flower power they feed America everyday.
Stand by for a serious drop in demographics in Saudi Arabia's shi* I mean shi'ite lands.
He is a victim of a contagious mental disease called Islam.
The benign form of the disease is usually only temporary.
In the beginning, man created God, in his own, ugly image. The rest is history.
"..he shot the four men because he felt America was at war with Islam."
Hmm..I feel that Islam is at war with Humanity!!!
Does it give me the right to shoot at Muslims? Of course not, because my God said: Love your enemies.
This is the difference between a true God and a true demon!
It was only recently that he turned to radical Islam...
Of course that's not the real Islam...The real Islam is the 'Religion of Peace'...Arid must have misunderstood something...
"The terrible thing about this attack if that it is so close to our normal life. … The awful truth of the Frankfurt attack is that nobody is safe any more."
As more and more people come to this realization, maybe we'll begin to lose the PC and call a spade a spade. How would Germans feel if the US military vacated the premises?
I find it offensive that this Uka gets his name all over the world, but I have yet to see the names of his victims. Part of this may be due to the DoD's requirements on notifying next of kin, but when the names are made public there is no media follow up.
Here is the first DoD press release:
http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=14307
Of course, elsewhere on the Internet and in the media, people are saying that Arid Uka committed a terrorist act, but "Islam cannot be blamed for it". And other Muslims cannot be held accountable in any way. We can read many variations on the well-known: "Do not tar all Muslims with the same brush".
Endlessly the argument is brought forth that by the same token everything a known Christian does can just as well blamed on Christianity.
How can we respond to these eternal denials and tu quoques-reasonings? Islam is most of the time either presented as some mysterious religion of which there is no need/ relevancy to even investigate. It is often a priori declared as neutral, innocent, just another religion.
Or Muslims emphasize the good teachings in Islam and arrogantly say that what the terrorists did and do has no place in Islam. As if they know for sure what the real Islam means and the terrorists and their supporters do not.
But we think that violent acts may be committed by Christians despite Christianity and at the same time many violent acts are committed by Muslims in accordance with Islam.
There are many ex-Muslims who say so, and they do have a profound knowledge of Islam. With loads of arguments for it. The terrorists themselves and many of their supporters also openly tell us this.
And when knowledge of Islam increases we think it will be shown to ever more people that A. There is a clear connection between the teachings of Islam and the violent behavior of some Muslims. Who are very seriously in studying and following of Islam, who are the more motivated among them.
Or B. That, hey, the real fault is in the Islamic teachings themselves, together with the Islamic insistence not to change them. These teachings are in dire need of revision when so many people interpret them in so many different ways. They are simply too ambiguous, multi-interpretable, incomplete, self-contradicting to be still responsibly adhered to by responsible citizens without some necessary revision or different interpretation.
And there I see the relevancy with the accountability of self-confessed Muslims. It should be pointed out to Muslims, that they are part of an organisation with dangerously unclear laws and principles.
And that that organisation moreover has no responsible conditions for membership. So it should be the responsibility of Muslim leaders to separate from this main messy mass of Muslims and implement an organisation with a clear, accountable interpretation of Islam and clear conditions on membership of this new organisation.
And in long run default-Muslims, not belonging to that separate organisation, should, by virtue of overwhelming "mountains of evidence and clues" be considered at fault by being by default in alliance with anti-democratic laws and principles and enemies to democratic nations.