Volume 6
Syrian Suicide Bomber in Germany,
Pledged Allegiance to ISIS Chief
By FoxNews.com
July-Aug 2016 Edition
Herrmann said bomb-making material and a series
of violent videos on storage devices turned up at the
unnamed attacker’s home.
Government officials had ordered to deport the man
not once, but twice. He was most recently told July
13 that he would be deported to Bulgaria, spokesman for Germany’s interior ministry Tobias Plate told
reporters. He said the first deportation notice was
issued on Dec. 22, 2014.
Special police officers arrive at the scene after an explosion
occurred in Ansbach, Germany
A Syrian man who failed to get asylum in Germany
pledged allegiance to the head of the Islamic State
terror group in a video before he blew himself up
near an open-air music festival in southern Germany, wounding 12 other people, Bavaria’s top security official announced Monday.
According to an initial translation of the Arabiclanguage video found on the bomber’s phone, the
27-year-old man announced a “revenge” attack
against Germany, according to the official, Joachim
Herrmann. He told reporters the video strongly suggested the bombing was a “terrorist attack.”
(Germany was struck by yet another attack late Sunday when
a refugee who had been denied asylum in the country blew
himself up, Reuters reported. Courtesy of TomoNews US and
YouTube)
The bomber was to be deported to Bulgaria because he had submitted his first asylum request in
that country, Plate added. He said Syrians can’t be
deported directly to Syria because of the situation
there.
The blast on Sunday was the fourth attack to shake
Germany in a week — three of them carried out by
recent immigrants.
The 27-year-old set off explosives he was carrying
in a backpack at a bar shortly after 10 p.m. Sunday, having been refused entry to the festival in the
southern