GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Frankfurt gunman in US airmen killing kept radical company on Facebook

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: CS Monitor

05March2011 10:00pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Frankfurt – 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. (read full report)

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