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To: joseffy who wrote (304639)3/3/2011 12:23:30 PM
From: Jim McMannisRead Replies (3) of 306849
 
Now the killer is refered to as a "suspect".

Germany: Suspect admits targeting American troops

news.yahoo.com

FRANKFURT, Germany – The suspect in the slaying of two U.S. airmen at Frankfurt airport has confessed to targeting American military members, a German security official said Thursday as investigators probed what they considered a possible act of Islamic terrorism.

German federal prosecutors took over the investigation into Wednesday's shooting, which also injured two U.S. airmen, one of them critically. They are working together with U.S. authorities.

Hesse state Interior Minister Boris Rhein told reporters in Wiesbaden that the suspect, identified as a 21-year-old ethnic Albanian from Kosovo, was apparently radicalized over the last few weeks. Relatives in northern Kosovo identified him as Arid Uka, whose family has been living in Germany for 40 years.

The suspect opened fire on a U.S. Air Force bus carrying 15 airmen based in the Lakenheath airfield in eastern England from Frankfurt to Ramstein Air Base, the Air Force said. From there, the airmen were to deploy to Afghanistan.

Uka's family said he worked at Frankfurt airport and was a devout Muslim. He was taken into custody immediately after the shooting and was later brought before a federal judge in Karlsruhe.
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