Thread: (UpDated to Tunisian)Report: Berlin Terror Attacker Is A Pakistani Refugee

Report: Berlin Terror Attacker Is A Pakistani Refugee
ALEX PFEIFFER
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9:23 PM 12/19/20166

Parts of a Christmas market decoration stick in the windscreen of a truck following an accident with the truck on Breitscheidplatz square near the fashionable Kurfuerstendamm avenue in the west of Berlin, Germany, December 19, 2016. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

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A Monday report in the German newspaper Die Welt claimed the alleged driver of a truck that killed at least 12 in a Berlin Christmas market is a Pakistani refugee.

The report said that the alleged terrorist arrived in Germany in February 16, 2016. Die Welt did not list its sources. The alleged driver has been taken into custody. A Polish citizen found dead in the cab of the truck was the registered driver of the vehicle, which was reportedly stolen from a construction site.

Paramedics work at the site of an accident at a Christmas market on Breitscheidplatz square near the fashionable Kurfuerstendamm avenue in the west of Berlin. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

Firefighter stand beside a truck at a Christmas market in Berlin, Germany, December 19, 2016 after the truck ploughed into the crowded Christmas market in the German capital. REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski

The Islamic State has not claimed responsibility for the attack but in recent months they have encouraged followers to use vehicles as weapons. A July truck attack killed 87 in Nice, France.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/19/report-berlin-terror-attacker-is-a-pakistani-refugee/

Accident??

BREAKING: Putin Goes to War… Tells Terrorists, You’re About “to Feel It”

Much of the world was shocked and perhaps even a bit fearful as reports began coming in Monday of the assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey while delivering remarks at an art museum in Ankara, with some no doubt recalling the similarities of the incident to the one that sparked World War I.

Fears of a broader world war being touched off by the horrible murder appear to have been quelled for the moment though, as Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erodgan over the phone shortly after the assassination, according to Reuters.

That, however, doesn’t mean that Putin and Russia will not retaliate for what Putin described as a deliberate provocation designed to disrupt the uneasy Russian-Turkish relationship and derail efforts to wind down the civil war in Syria.

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“A crime has been committed and it was without doubt a provocation aimed at spoiling the normalization of Russo-Turkish relations and spoiling the Syrian peace process which is being actively pushed by Russia, Turkey, Iran and others,” Putin declared. “There can only be one response – stepping up the fight against terrorism. The bandits will feel this happening.”

While praising slain Ambassador Andrei Karlov, Putin also revealed that he is sending investigators to Turkey to work hand-in-hand with Turkish officials, proclaiming, “We must know who directed the killer’s hand,” according to Newsmax.

Putin ordered security measures to be stepped up at Russian embassies and consulates around the world in case of further attacks, while also ordering extra security for Turkish diplomatic facilities in Russia, to guard against rogue attempts at retaliation by angry Russians.

“There is no place for terrorism and we will be resolutely fighting against it,” stated a spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry.

In 1914,the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, presumptive heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was assassinated in Sarajevo, Serbia, an act of terrorism that eventually drew all of Europe into World War I.

Though we appeared to be on the verge of a global conflagration after the terrible assassination of a Russian diplomat in Turkey, it would appear that radical Islamic terrorists are the only ones who should be afraid of Putin’s response to the atrocity.

http://conservativetribune.com/putin...edium=referral

It's time someone gets serious about the wars going on over there. It's way past time.

'Violent and armed'
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BREAKING NEWS
Berlin suspect identified as 24-year-old Anis Amri

• Crash's haunting aftermath
• 4 attacks in 2 days
• Mourners: 'The people who do this are animals'

Berlin attack: Police hunt Tunisian suspect after finding ID papers in truck

By Laura Smith-Spark, Hala Gorani and James Griffiths, CNN
Updated 12:22 PM ET, Wed December 21, 2016


Berlin (CNN)[Breaking news update, published at 12:05 p.m. ET]

The German federal prosecutor's office on Wednesday issued a wanted notice for Anis Amri, a 24-year-old man born in Tunisia, in connection with Monday's attack on the Christmas market at Breitsheidplatz in Berlin, according to a statement.

Police have offered a reward of up to 100,000 euros. They say he is "under urgent suspicion."

Amri is 1.78 meters (5 feet 10 inches) tall and weighs approximately 75 kilograms (165 pounds).


German authorities say they're looking for Anis Amri in connection with Monday's Christmas market attack in Berlin.


The wanted notice asks the public for its help in the manhunt and warns that Amri could be "violent and armed."

The notice encourages members of the public to come forward with any information on the current or past whereabouts of Amri.
"If you see this person that we are seeking, inform the police.

Please do not put yourself in danger because this person could be violent and armed!" the notice said.

[Original story, published at 11:52 a.m. ET]

Police are searching for a Tunisian man in his early 20s in connection with the Berlin Christmas market attack, German officials said Wednesday, as questions were raised about his possible ties to Islamist extremism.

The suspect's identity papers were found inside the cabin of the truck used in Monday's attack, which left 12 people dead and 48 injured, German security officials said. The man was born in 1992, one said.

Ralf Jaeger, interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, told reporters the suspect was known to German security services as someone in contact with radical Islamist groups, and had been assessed as posing a risk.

One German security official told CNN the suspect had been arrested with forged documents in the southern German town of Friedrichshafen in August, on his way to Italy, but a judge released him. The suspect also came onto the radar of German police because he was looking for a gun, the official said.

Latest developments


• Market attack suspect was known to be in touch with radical Islamist groups, a state minister says.
• The suspect's asylum request was refused, and deportation was attempted, a German state minister says.
• German police conduct raids in North Rhine-Westphalia region, a security official says.
• Mourners leave tributes of flowers and candles at makeshift shrines to the victims.

Tributes are laid to the Berlin market attack victims.


Hunt for suspect

German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière confirmed that a new suspect was being sought in connection with the attack but declined to confirm his identity. He told reporters a manhunt for the suspect had been underway in Germany and across Europe since midnight.

German police carried out raids Wednesday in connection with the investigation in North Rhine-Westphalia, where the Tunisian suspect had stayed, another security official told CNN. The official said the suspect was not yet in custody.

ISIS claimed it had inspired Monday's attack. The terror group's affiliated Amaq News Agency described the perpetrator as a "soldier of the Islamic State" who had acted in response to calls for attacks in the West.


Mayer said authorities' attempts to deport the Tunisian national were thwarted because they were unable to establish his identity beyond doubt. He said the suspect was believed to have links to a Salafist group, referring to an ultra-conservative branch of Islam.

Jaeger said the suspect was believed to have entered Germany in July 2015 and had traveled between Berlin, North Rhine-Westphalia and other cities. He was "very mobile" but was mostly in Berlin since February, he said.

The Tunisian authorities were informed when the deportation process started in North Rhine-Westphalia, Jaeger added. The man's asylum request was refused in June.

German security officials told CNN that investigators believe the Tunisian suspect is linked to a recruitment network for ISIS operating in Germany.

The main figure in the network, Ahmad Abdulaziz Abdullah -- a 32-year-old Iraqi national also known as Abu Walaa -- and four others were arrested and charged with terrorism offenses in November.

German federal prosecutors said then that Abdullah was the ringleader of a multiregional recruitment network. The group allegedly targeted and radicalized young Muslims in North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony.

Jaeger said he could not confirm a link to Abu Walaa.

Police appeal for photos, videos


Police have appealed to the public for any digital videos and photos they have of the attack or possible suspects. They tweeted Tuesday they were investigating 508 leads.

On Tuesday evening, police released an asylum-seeker believed to be from Pakistan who had been detained in the immediate aftermath of the truck attack. According to German media, witnesses had said he had been driving the truck.

But Peter Frank, general prosecutor at Germany's Federal Court of Justice, said that forensic tests offered no link between the man and the truck's cabin.


Original truck driver slain


A Polish man found shot dead inside the truck has been identified as its original driver, according to German media.

He was not driving during the incident, police said. The gun used to kill him has not yet been recovered.



'Black day for history:' Berliners mourn market attack victims


The slain driver may have been involved in a struggle with the suspect inside the truck's cabin before he was shot, Cruickshank said. This could be when the suspect's identity papers were dropped, he suggested.

The truck, which was owned by a Polish company, was hauling 25 tons of steel before it was steered into the crowd, according to its owner, Ariel Zurawski. He identified the slain driver as his cousin.

Country in mourning

German authorities have not publicly named any of the victims, and police have asked people not to post videos or photos of them as a sign of respect.

But Italy's Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that Italian national Fabrizia Di Lorenzo was missing following the attack and that her family was now in Berlin. The ministry said it was waiting for German investigators to complete their work before issuing a statement.

Italy's ANSA news agency reported the missing woman, 31, worked in Berlin and that her cell phone was found at the attack scene.

German President Joachim Gauck visited some of the injured Wednesday at the Charité hospital in Berlin.


People gather Wednesday in Berlin to sing in tribute to the victims of the attack.


He told reporters his visit was intended "to give support for the injured people, to show them the whole nation is supporting them."

The doctor who oversaw the Charité hospital's emergency response, Michael Schuetz, told CNN that survivors brought there had described a scene "like a little war zone."

"This is a very traumatic, very traumatic event for them," he said. Physical injuries ranged from major trauma for those hit by the truck to lesser injuries suffered when poles from the market huts fell on people, he said.

Despite the manhunt, Berlin appeared much quieter Wednesday than was the case in Paris and Brussels, Belgium, in the aftermath of recent terror attacks there, when the noise of helicopters and sirens filled the streets for days.

Berliners who came to leave flowers and candles at makeshift shrines near the Christmas market told CNN they would not allow the attack to change the way they led their lives.

One handwritten note left with a bunch of roses read, "You will not have our hate," echoing the words of writer Antoine Leiris after he lost his wife in the Paris attacks.

Dozens of people raised their voices in a tribute to those killed, singing songs such as "We Are the World and "Shine a Light."

CNN's Hala Gorani reported from Berlin, James Griffiths wrote from Hong Kong and Laura Smith-Spark wrote from London. CNN's Bryony Jones, Tim Lister, Carol Jordan, Max Foster, Julia Jones and Hada Messia contributed to this report.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/21/europe...uck/index.html

It starts with letting people into your country w/o permission - then try and deport them - lot of countries won't take them back. Due to the fact that middle eastern & african muslims and those from south of the border of USA are highly inbred and are nuts - build the walls, get rid of them, bye bye - let them rape, butcher, behead each other in their own countries.

Police storm a Berlin mosque and set off stun grenades as manhunt for terrorist intensifies after officers arrest four of his friends in raids on refugee centres, halfway houses and flats across Germany

• Elite commandos blew up front door and witnesses reported hearing gunfire
• The target was the 'Fussilet 33' association's building in Perleberger Straße
• Four men held in Dortmund - where Anis Amri once lived with a hate preacher
• Elite police units also search Berlin flat and refugee centre in Eastern Germany
• Border guards are searching cars leaving Germany for France near Strasbourg

By MARTIN ROBINSON, UK CHIEF REPORTER FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 07:53 EST, 22 December 2016 | UPDATED: 14:04 EST, 22 December 2016

Police raided a mosque in Berlin tonight as they searched for Europe's most wanted man.

Elite commando units hunting for Anis Amri, 24, blew up the front door, threw in stun grenades and witnesses reported hearing gunfire.

The target was the 'Fussilet 33' association's building in Perleberger Straße in the south-east of the capital. Neighbouring flats are also being searched, according to German media.

It was raided in 2015 over allegations they were raising money for extremists in Syria. An imam was put under investigation.

This morning four associates of Amri were arrested as police raided addresses across the country.



Target: Police raided a mosque in this Berlin street tonight as they searched for Europe's most wanted man




Manhunt: Four known associates of terror suspect Anis Amri have been arrested in Germany as the search for Anis Amri intensified



Unit: Armed policemen stand in front of a house in Dortmund, western Germany, where four men were held



A shelter for asylum seekers was searched in Emmerich, eastern Germany, pictured, where one man was questioned



French and German police conduct a control at the French-German border at the 'Le Pont de l'Europe' bridge in Strasbourg, France, to check vehicles and verify the identity of travellers


Merkel hopes for 'quick arrest' of the Tunisian truck terror suspect

German Chancellor Angela Merkel voiced hope Thursday that the prime suspect in Berlin's deadly truck attack would be caught quickly, after it emerged that the Tunisian rejected asylum seeker was a known jihadist.



In an act of defiance, Berliners flocked to the same Christmas market that witnessed the murder of 12 people on Monday, as it reopened for the first time in three days.

Just as Merkel praised the country for not succumbing to fear in the wake of the attack, she insisted that authorities would manage to track down the alleged assailant.

'I am certain we will meet this test we are facing,' she said, voicing confidence for a 'hopefully quick arrest'.
'In the past few days I have been very proud of how calmly most people reacted to the situation.'

Prosecutors have issued a Europe-wide wanted notice for 24-year-old Tunisian Anis Amri, offering a 100,000-euro ($104,000) reward for information leading to his arrest and warning he could be armed and dangerous.

Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said the case against Amri was hardening, with his fingerprints found in the cab of the 40-tonne truck, as well as his temporary residence permit.

The articulated lorry rammed through the crowd late Monday, killing 12.

The twelfth victim, the hijacked truck's Polish driver, was found shot in the cab.

Berliners returned Thursday to the market at the central Breitscheid square, leaving a sea of flowers and candles for the victims and signs reading 'Love Not Hate'.

The men were held in Dortmund - where Amri once lived with a hate preacher. The men have reportedly had close contact with him in recent months.

A flat was also raided in Berlin, but was empty, and a shelter for asylum seekers was searched in Emmerich, eastern Germany, where one man was questioned.

The border between Germany and France has checkpoints where police are searching cars.

Anis Amri is the subject of an international manhunt after the attack left 12 dead and dozens injured.

The 24-year-old apparently arrived in Germany in July last year having left his home country for Italy in 2011 after the Arab Spring uprisings.


Policemen enter a home for asylum seekers in Emmerich, western Germany

He applied for asylum in April and his claim was rejected in July, but he could not be deported because Tunisia initially claimed he was not a citizen and he did not have the correct papers to be repatriated, according to reports.
A European Arrest Warrant was said to show he used six different names under three nationalities.

After the manhunt was launched, reports emerged that Amri had been under surveillance earlier this year.
He was monitored for more than six months by German authorities after they received a tip that he may have been planning a break-in to finance buying automatic weapons for an attack.

But agencies stopped watching Amri in September after nothing was found to substantiate the original warning
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The operation was reportedly halted after turning up nothing more than him dealing drugs in a Berlin park and getting involved in a bar brawl.

However, officials said security agencies swapped counter-terrorism information about him as recently as November.

Reports on Thursday claimed Amri served four years for arson in Italy before he entered Germany.
One of his brothers was quoted by the Associated Press as suggesting that Amri may have been radicalised in prison in Italy.

Earlier, German interior minister Thomas de Maiziere said Amri was suspected of involvement in Monday's terrorist outrage but was not necessarily the man who drove the lorry into a crowded Christmas market in the German capital.

His identity papers were found under the driver's seat of the lorry, Der Spiegel said. It has now been claimed his fingerprints were on the door.

Anis Amri is the subject of an international manhunt after the attack left 12 dead and dozens injured.



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A European arrest warrant from Germany, indicates that Anis Amri (pictured) has at times used six different aliases and three different nationalities. German police were tracking him for months amid fears he was involved in an earlier terrorist plot - but lost him before the Berlin Christmas market massacre


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German authorities have revealed there is a 100,000 euro (£84,000) reward for information leading to his capture



Path to Germany: Amri fled Tunisia to avoid jail but was imprisoned in Italy for rioting in an immigration centre. He still managed to get to Germany after his release. He has been repeatedly arrested and watched by vanished two weeks ago

The 24-year-old apparently arrived in Germany in July last year having left his home country for Italy in 2011 after the Arab Spring uprisings.

He applied for asylum in April and his claim was rejected in July, but he could not be deported because Tunisia initially claimed he was not a citizen and he did not have the correct papers to be repatriated, according to reports.

Death toll could rise as the injured fight for their lives

Berlin's state government has said 12 people are still being treated for severe injuries after Monday night's truck attack on a Christmas market, and that an unspecified number of them are still in critical condition.

Another 14 people with less serious injuries were also still hospitalized, while 30 others have been discharged.
Twelve people were killed in the attack.

Berlin's state health ministry on Thursday raised the number of market attack victims treated in Berlin hospitals to 56, up from 48.

It said some victims had reached hospitals on their own after the attack.

A European Arrest Warrant was said to show he used six different names under three nationalities.

After the manhunt was launched, reports emerged that Amri had been under surveillance earlier this year.
He was monitored for more than six months by German authorities after they received a tip that he may have been planning a break-in to finance buying automatic weapons for an attack.

But agencies stopped watching Amri in September after nothing was found to substantiate the original warning.

The operation was reportedly halted after turning up nothing more than him dealing drugs in a Berlin park and getting involved in a bar brawl.

However, officials said security agencies swapped counter-terrorism information about him as recently as November.

Reports on Thursday claimed Amri served four years for arson in Italy before he entered Germany.

One of his brothers was quoted by the Associated Press as suggesting that Amri may have been radicalised in prison in Italy.

Earlier, German interior minister Thomas de Maiziere said Amri was suspected of involvement in Monday's terrorist outrage but was not necessarily the man who drove the lorry into a crowded Christmas market in the German capital.



Visitors and police walk through the reopened Breitscheidplatz Christmas market only a short distance from where three days ago a truck wiped out 12 people




Fresh start: The market decimated by the careering lorry on Monday has re-opened today - three days after 12 people died



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A market worker stands in front of a makeshift memorial near the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedaechtniskirche Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church

His identity papers were found under the driver's seat of the lorry, Der Spiegel said.

The Berlin Christmas market reopened today as the grieving city sought a return to normal life and police hunted for the prime suspect in the attack.

The wooden huts selling mulled wine, sausages, toys and seasonal decorations are run by people who saw the horror unfold.

But the section where the truck cut a bloody swathe through the market on Monday remains sealed off.

The Berlin association of market vendors said the decision to reopen the market was not an easy one.

'We are still stunned and deeply shocked. Our thoughts are with the injured, the dead and their families,' the association's chairman Michael Roden said.

'In a situation like this it's very difficult to know what the right thing to do is.
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Truck attacker was a troubled inmate in Italy



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Italian authorities say the Tunisian fugitive in the Berlin Christmas market truck attack was a problem inmate when he was in Italy.

The Italian justice ministry on Thursday confirmed media reports that 24-year-old Anis Amri was repeatedly admonished and transferred among Sicilian prisons for bad conduct.

Prison records say he bullied inmates and tried to spark insurrections.

In all, Amri was held in six different prisons on Sicily, where he served three years for setting a fire at a refugee center and making threats, among other charges.

But Italy apparently recorded no signs that Amri was becoming radicalized to embrace extremist violence.
Amri reached Italy in 2011, along with tens of thousands of young Tunisian men who arrived by boat during the Arab Spring revolutions.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...s-Germany.html

Berlin terror attack suspect killed in shootout with Italian police

His identity papers were found under the driver's seat of the lorry,

What a break - thank you angels.

The face of a deranged mind - muslim inbreeding coupled with hate filled upbringings - why would/should any country want to take them in?