💣UPDATE: Ansbach bomber used ISIS INSTRUCTIONS to create suicide bomb!

The 27-year-old Muslim Syrian migrant who tried to blow up a music festival last night in Ansbach, Germany, had pledged allegiance to ISIS.

The backstory on the suicide bomber was that he came to Germany two years ago but was denied asylum a year ago. Despite all this, he was allowed to remain in the country. As I read last night, the only way they could have justified deporting him was if he had committed a serious crime. Sound familiar?

THE GUARDIAN – According to an initial translation of the Arabic-language video found on the suspect’s phone, the Ansbach attack was described as “revenge” against Germany.

Bavaria’s interior minister Joachim Herrmann added that officers discovered videos with “Salafist content” on storage devices seized at the 27-year-old Syrian man’s home.

Police also found petrol, chemicals and other material that could be used to make a bomb.

He said there was no evidence yet of any links to extremist organisations but that the evidence found suggested an Islamic extremist motivation.

The unnamed Syrian was the only person killed in the blast. More than a dozen people were wounded.

UPDATE: The suicide bomber not only pledged allegiance to ISIS, but used ISIS bomb making instructions to construct his bomb!

Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said that a video in Arabic found on the mobile phone of the Syrian who set off a bomb in the Bavarian town of Ansbach showed that it was a terrorist attack.

“A provisional translation by an interpreter shows that he expressly announces, in the name of Allah, and testifying his allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a famous Islamist leader, an act of revenge against the Germans because they’re getting in the way of Islam,” he said at a news conference.

Herrmann added: “I think that after this video there’s no doubt that the attack was a terrorist attack with an Islamist background.”

Following news of video there has chatter on Islamic State channels suggesting the bomber was following its instructions, according to Michael S Smith, a member of the US congressional taskforce on terrorism and unconventional warfare.

The Guardian also reports that during this same press conference where they announced the above, the interior minister defended Merkel’s refugee policy saying this suicide bombing was not example of it:

One of the most interesting points to take from interior minister Thomas de Maizière’s press conference was his defence of Angela Merkel’s refugee policy.

He was asked whether the attacks were proof that Merkel’s refugee policy was wrong or showed her slogan “we can manage it” was too optimistic. He pointed out that none of the attackers so far named – Würzburg, Munich, Reutlingen or Ansbach – were among the refugees who arrived last autumn after Merkel’s declaration that Germany’s doors were open to those in need.

Therefore her policy could not be held responsible, De Maizière said.

Wow, the list is starting to get long: Würzburg, Munich, Reutlingen or Ansbach. I wouldn’t put it past these guys to lie on Merkel’s behalf, but even if he is correct, which we’ll stipulate, he should have said they weren’t among the refugees who arrived last autumn YET!

I would like to mention one other thing. They reported last night that this attacker had tried to commit suicide a couple of times in the last two years and had gone through some psychiatric care or something. I believe this could be very true and not mutually exclusive from him being an ISIS jihadi now.

Two years ago he could have been an average Muslim with refugee issues, and only in the last 6 months he could have become a fundamentalist Muslim. Don’t know all the facts yet, but it sounds like he became a fundy which led him to this suicide bombing in the name of ISIS.


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