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Red Alert: Gunman Targets U.S. Soldiers At Frankfurt Airport
Two people were killed and two were injured, at least one critically, in
a shooting attack on U.S. military personnel at 3:20 p.m. local time
March 3 at Germany’s Frankfurt International Airport. According to
breaking news reports, an armed attacker boarded a U.S. military bus
idling in front of Terminal 2 and began shooting. The two killed were a
U.S. soldier and the driver of the bus, whose nationality is unclear.
The perpetrator is alleged to be from Kosovo, of Albanian ethnicity and
21 years old, according to German media sources. According to news
reports, the U.S. forces involved in the attack were on their way to
Afghanistan.
There have been plots against U.S. military targets in Germany in recent
years. The attack fits in the category of "armed jihadist assault"
similar to what American-born Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki called for
in mid-2010 in jihadist Internet chat rooms. Al-Awlaki had been tied to
U.S. Maj. Nidal Hasan, who was charged with the November 2009 Fort Hood
shooting.
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