Acquaintance of Frankfurt Shooter Charged as Al-Qaeda Member
The German Federal Prosecutor’s Office has brought charges against 25-year-old Rami Makanesi: a German national suspected of having been chosen by al-Qaeda to develop a European support network for the terror organization. Makanesi — who continues to be identified by German authorities simply as “Rami M.” — has been in German custody since August 2010. He is known to have lived in the same apartment building in Frankfurt as the Frankfurt Airport shooter Arid Uka, and the two men are reported to have been friends.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, Makanesi travelled from Germany to Pakistan via Iran in March 2009, in order to receive military training at a camp run by the so-called Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. He is supposed subsequently to have joined an al-Qaeda camp in May 2009, receiving training there before “taking part in violent jihad.” The latter phrase is presumably an allusion to combat against coalition troops in Afghanistan.
A statement released by the Prosecutor’s Office continues:
At the start of June 2010, a high-ranking Al-Qaeda member took the initiative of releasing him from participation in any further combat missions. Henceforth, his task was to collaborate in Germany on a European network of the terrorist organization. The network was supposed to procure financial support for the organization, but also to be at the disposition of the Al-Qaeda leadership for other, not yet further specified, assignments.
In June 2010, before he could return to Germany, Makanesi was taken prisoner by Pakistani security forces. The latter reportedly discovered him disguised in a burqa. He was transferred to Germany on August 25 and arrested upon his arrival at Frankfurt Airport.
Makanesi is known to have lived for several years in the same apartment building in the Sossenheim neighborhood of Frankfurt as Arid Uka, the shooter who killed two American servicemen at Frankfurt Airport earlier this month. According to a report in the German daily Die Welt, Makanesi moved out of the building in July 2003, when Uka would have been thirteen-years-old. He continued to live in Frankfurt, however, in the nearby Bockenheim neighborhood.�
Arid Uka purchased a weapon from who? Rami? Which Mosque did these two roomates vist to pray to the god?
Do you know how I can smell Islam all over this? Not because of the hiding burka boy, it’s due to no soap being used. Therefore, it stinks.
This is another good reason to BAN THE BURQA. The burqa is a perfect disguise for criminals, terrorists, and suicide bombers of every stripe, including men and boys.
Islam is not a belief system that encourages independent thought or action. Expecting anyone to believe that a Muslim terrorist is acting independently is ludicrous and an insult to our collective intelligence.
Militant Islam is an Arab invention, based on the Arab culture of war and domination. Until Muslims recognize this pathology and seek to mitigate it, Islam will continue to be at war with the rest of the world, and will continue to be deserving of utter annihilation.
Well said.
All the things that are enforced in the name of fighting terrorism, Airport scanning, wiretapping a.s.o., this guy is categorized a lone wolf, screaming Allah Akbar before killing these innocent people.
It’s time for a revolution in the western world, who needs useless politicians?
How can a follower of the teachings of Mohamed be considered a “lone wolf”?
Excellent point!
One can conclude that there is no specific reason for any Muslim living in Europe to travel to Pakistan or Afghanistan particularly through Iran, unless the person is a Jahadist. Secondly, gun shops in Europe as well as US must be very careful to sell weapons to a young Muslim person. Traditionally, Muslim are afraid of guns to be in their house. In rare occasion, a Muslim might purchase a gun for hunting in his / her own country. Any other purchase of gun by Muslims, particularly in the West must be looked at as a suspicious act.