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December 22, 2016       Share:    

Source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/21/berlin-truck-attacker-was-no-lone-wolf-german-authorities-say.html

Berlin Truck Attacker Had Ties to ISIS Cell

(Daily Beast) Katie Zavadski and Michael Weiss - Anis Amri, the lead suspect in Monday's deadly attack in Berlin, had ties to a group of local ISIS sympathizers led by a man named Abu Walaa, who was arrested in November. Abu Walaa is an Iraqi-born preacher who serves a mosque in Hildesheim. A Facebook page devoted to him has 25,000 followers. An ISIS defector told Sueddeutsche Zeitung that Abu Walaa was an ISIS recruiter and the group's top leader in Germany.

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