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The Radical Islamist Roots of the Frankfurt Attack


(Der Spiegel-Germany) Matthias Bartsch, Matthias Gebauer and Yassin Musharbash - Arid U., who admitted on Thursday to having carried out the Wednesday shooting of two U.S. airmen at the Frankfurt airport, appears to have had extensive contact with radical Islamists via his Facebook page. "He seems to have belonged to an unstructured militant-Salafist environment," said a source familiar with the investigation. Arid U., who is originally from predominantly Muslim Kosovo, bought the weapon used in the attack months ago.
2011-03-04 00:00:00
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