Two United States airmen were killed and two injured on Wednesday when a gunman opened fire on an American military bus at the Frankfurt airport, according to American military officials in Europe.
[…] The suspected gunman, who is in custody, is 21-year-old Kosovar who lives in Frankfurt, according to a city police spokesman, Manfred Füllhardt.
[…] Speaking on condition of anonymity to protect his business, he said witnesses told him that the gunman first talked to the military personnel to find out who they were and then opened fire, shouting “God is great” in Arabic.
Are we surprised?
We have the general European ingratitude with the Islamic violence.
Sorry- Islamic ingratitude, as well.
So, they caught the guy at the airport where he did it, but Big 0 is gonna keep searching for the Real Killers? Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck better sleep with one eye open.
As I was driving down the road this AM I heard that two US airmen had been shot and killed in Germany. I turned to my wife and said, “How much do you want to bet that the killer is Muslim?”
Obama will give them a “stern look” with his fingers crossed behind his back of course.
I though you couldn’t own a firearm in most European countries. Where do you think this little Kosovorkian feces get his?
The last bit is odd.
Kosovo nationals come in two basic types – the Serb minority and everyone else.
The Serb minority doesn’t like Americans, because we took the other side in their little war. Everything I’ve heard suggests the rest of the Kosovars (especially the Kosovars in the other sense, that of ethnic Albanians) look quite friendly upon Americans, as having defended them during the war.
So I expected the killer, if a Kosovan, to be a Serb – and thus probably Serbian Orthodox, rather than Muslim.
Muslim Kosovars tend to like Americans, because they’ve seen first-hand that we’re not their enemies.
Weird.
Probably one of them there Mmmmmuuuuzzz…I mean Mmmmennonite Kosovars…
Lots of Muslims throughout the Balkans. The Turk went through there like shit through a goose a few hundred years ago. First Jihad, Post-Caliphate.
Do Serbian Orthodox Christians shout “Allah Akbar” a lot?
Shooter identified as Arif Uka. Probably Irish-Serbian Orthodox Christian….
We all know Vampires are the real enemy. At least our media think so. Muslims are our friends don’t you know.
Kate’s right, we fought on the wrong side.
Now we reap this for our sins of helping the Sons of Muhamud, the child rapist. the killing maniac.
All for a false god known as allah the Merciless.
JMO
I shouldn’t be surprised, but not one news story I have seen mentions that the guy is muzzie.
Sigivald:
According to this report, the perp is a German born Muslim whose parents moved to Germany 40 years ago.
“In an interview with The Associated Press in Kosovo, 70-year-old Rexhep Uka said the suspected gunman — Arid Uka — was born and raised in Germany after his parents moved there from Kosovo about 40 years ago.”
“The uncle says Arid is a pious Muslim whose grandfather was a religious leader at a mosque in the village of Zhabar, near Mitrovica, Kosovo.”
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/international/europe/view/20110302airport_shooter_allegedly_a_german_muslim/srvc=home&position=recent
If this guy was radicalized, then it probably happened in Germany, not Kosovo.
Albanian Muslims, like the Bosnian and Sanjak variety, aren’t known for being religious zealots.
The “youth” was probably radicalized by right-wing talk show radio.
Ze Rausch Limburger show.
I hope Germany has a policy of harsh treatment of fellows like Mr.Uka.
Damn Amish are at it again.
One wanders how many dead ‘mericans, Europeans and other of such stock will it take to put a stop to this killing.
Kosovo islamists have no concept of civilized life. Albania, where most of them came from was officially socialist and intensely atheist state run by communists. Don’t know about mosques, though churches were turned into all uses other than places of worship, if not razed down.
After the fall of communism and socialism in Eastern Europe the Albanians were and are to this day the most criminal element of Europe. What ever you may think of religion, when it was cut out of conscience of Albanians, they seem to have lost the concept of civilized society.
The communists turned ordinary people into robot like crowd, if you can imagine the invasion of body snatchers. This happened to a large minority if not majority of people.
Unfortunately it will take perhaps more than a generation to civilize. It is an almost laboratory case to see how much effor it takes to get civilized and how little to loose ones humanity.
Yeah Albanians are a scary lot.
Not sure how much religion they got but vicious bigtime…….
Would not say that Albanians are a scary lot.
Just unfortunate circumstances in big scheme of things.
Who’s surprised a Muslim opens fire and kills the kaffir???
Maybe the neo-cons like Kristol, Krauthammer ‘et al’ who supported bombing Christian Serbia are going to show some shame?
Not!
Lev
I think that the gypsies would give any one a run for the “lawlessness” money ( I happen to have a gypsy heritage)
and as far as which side we should have been on, neither side would be the rite answer, T’was a case for nuke them all, or pray for an asteroid
I heard it on the radio (QR77) driving home from work today. The report identified him as a ‘devout muslim’ and ended with the unsurprising phrase ‘there is no word on a motive.’
If only there were some common identifying thread linking all these young male muslim killers.
My teenage daughter is leaving in 2 weeks with her school to go to France and Spain. They have a 7-hour layover at this airport. I don’t think I’ll sleep a wink until she gets home again. I have an awful feeling about letting her travel anywhere in Europe right now, but this trip’s been in the making for almost a year.
“Motive unclear in killing of two US airmen at Frankfurt airport
German police say it’s too early to determine if today’s shooting that killed two US airmen and wounded two others was an act of Islamist terrorism.”
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2011/0302/Motive-unclear-in-killing-of-two-US-airmen-at-Frankfurt-airport
Maybe he just didn’t like bus drivers.
Yeah…that’s the ticket.
The Whitehouse will no doubt ignore the muslim angle as well. It could be described as a simple case of mistaken identity. He thought they were Al and Lou Ahkbar, two brothers who screwed him over on a pre-owned camel deal.
Fear Not folks
It was just a way of thanking the West for taking the side of the Kosovans over the Serbs.
If anyone had wanted to understand the Serbs its something they have in common with the Georgians, Armenians and Russians, being on the front line against the Caliphate East for Centuries embeds a strong historical understanding of reality, ask an Israeli
As Kate and many others have said over the years and at the time. We the West collectively took the wrong side in the battle, and parallels today show the Western governments making exactly the same errors, the governing classes, the fascists and bureaucrats do not understand the enemy they do not want to bother with real history and understanding.
Reap as yea sow
No difference between this and the Taliban as far as I can see; the USA gave them the support to throw out the Russians, and…we all know what happened next, right?
Thanks for all the help indeed…history hiccupping again.
Geopolitics is a cruel bitch.
Not to dump too heavily on some of the other commenters here, but the ethnic Kosovar Alabanian population comprises a significant number of muslims, and also served as the “sea” in which a goodly number of mujaheddin decided to “swim” against the Serb current. Operation Allied Force (for those of you who remember it) was largely an exercise in bombing Orthodox Serbs to protect Muslim Kosovar Albanians, and it was launched in response to the Jan 99 Racak “massacre”, which featured a couple score men of military age dressed in Albanian civilian clothing. Far be it from me to excuse any of Slobo’s acts, but when he told Holbrooke and Clarke that he was fighting “terrorists” in Kosovo, he wasn’t lying. Maddie Albright and Bubba simply decided to take one side over the other.
Speaking of Slick Willie, it’s always fascinated me how the same crowd that thinks Bush and Cheney planted thermite in the WTC never seems to notice how the Kosovo Crisis (and the joint US/UK bombings in Iraq in Dec 98) lined up with Monicagate. Just sayin’…
Anyway, if as the news reports suggest this guy is simply ethnically an Albanian muslim (in the same way my grandfather born in Glasgow in 1900 makes me “ethnically” a Scot), then it suggests that his “radicalization”, like the radicalization of muslims throughout Western countries, was a remote-control phenomenon. Which, frankly, is rather more alarming than if he’d grown up in some islamist cesspit in the Hindu Kush. As Mark Steyn says, if this guy can enjoy all of the glories of life in the modern liberal democratic state and STILL want to blow it up, then maybe we’re beyond the point where negotiation is an option.
Let’s see … hmmmm. … Kosovo muslim since the NATO supported Jihad .. bet the guy was a muslim of no motivation.
capt_bob at March 2, 2011 3:36 PM
[i]Obama will give them a “stern look” with his fingers crossed behind his back of course.[/i]
No he won’t …. because crossing your fingers is a Christian thing … check your history.
atric at March 2, 2011 5:35 PM
“Damn Amish are at it again.”
NoNoNo … it’s those damn Swiss Espica…espicalia….persecutians…. again.
Hey, we’ve been told, by the One Himself, that muslims now like America because he is perceived as a muslim by muslims. So, it must be those damned Christians that wot dunnit.
Why the F, after Fort Hood, are US servicemen travelling or congregating in numbers not packing heat! They are Islamic targets and they should be armed. Maybe if they were unionized, Obamugabe would consider them important enough to his campaign financing to warrant arming. If the German government objected to US soldiers being armed, they could step up to the plate and defend themselves, they should anyway. Bring them home.
Kosovo was a very secular country when I was there. They were officially atheist under communism, 90% were nominally Muslim, and 10% were Catholic.
Few people attended the mosque. They celebrated the holidays the way most Christians celebrate Christmas and Easter.
They drank alcohol, had elaborate funerals, seldom prayed, and generally disappointed the imams with their lack of faith.
Our friendly neighborhood Special Forces (identifiable by their lack of body armor, sterilized uniforms, and unshaven faces) were investigating radical islamic groups trying to form.
There was at least one Muslim “charity” there with a really cute, well educated, and sweet girl working for them. But she would sit in front of her computer most of the day reading anti-Israeli propaganda and crying about the poor Palestinian people.
Many Kosovars spoke German or Italian – they are the illegal alien workers for those two countries. Almost all trade was done in Deutsche Marks.
If this kid was 21, he should have been familiar with US troops.
One day some kids looted our trucks, taking among other things a pair of night vision goggles. We threatened to cut off funding of the local projects, and the next day three young boys were returning our equipment and apologizing. Too bad that doesn’t happen here.
This little shit was probably one of the kids who robbed us.
The TMK was the local terrorist group and organized criminals. We made them the de facto army although they couldn’t legally carry weapons. They were more into the heroin trade, human trafficking, prostitution, car theft, and protection rackets than islamic fundamentalism.
I’m not surprised there are extremists there. The people have been living in a spiritual vacuum for 70 years – ripe for indoctrination.
But yes, Americans were rock stars there. One family we knew named their little girl America. Their entrepreneurial spirit was incredible, but they were also deeply inculcated with socialist dependency.
Some of them stood in line for 12 hours to vote when they had their first free elections.
Watch out! Mad Dog Obama is outraged again.
Can his vicious wrath ever be soothed?
This should be a wake up call for all misunderstanders of islam who think that non-muslim’s ‘help’ to establish ‘democracy’ in a muslim country would ever be appreciated.
@POWinCA:
> They were officially atheist under communism,
> 90% were nominally Muslim, and 10% were Catholic.
I call BS. Sounds like you’ve never been to Kosovo and are making all this up.
In reality North Kosovo was entirely Greek Orthodox Serbs. You’ve totally forgotten to mention the Serbs…
“Why the F, after Fort Hood, are US servicemen travelling or congregating in numbers not packing heat! They are Islamic targets and they should be armed…”
Er, because Germany is a sovereign state and the US has no authority to unilaterally arm its personnel there?
Aaron, you are an ignorant idiot.
I served on Camp Bondsteel in late 2000 to early 2001. My team operated in Urosevac/Ferizaj, the largest city in the American sector, and only smaller than Pristina, the capital. The northern sectors you’re talking about were in Frog territory.
While areas in the north as well as the town of Strpce were Serb enclaves, the remainder of the country was 90% Albanian and about 6-10% Ashkalia/Roma. Serbs may have been a larger portion of the population before the war, but most left afterward.
Serbs have been the minority in Kosovo for hundreds of years. One of their chief complaints is that they were “invaded” by in-migration and prodigious breeding by Albanians. A common misconception is that the conflict was Christian vs. Muslim. As I said, the Albanians were only nominally muslim. The chief conflicts were 1) oppressive minority rule of the Serbs over the majority Albanians, 2) control over the rich mineral deposits in the northeast – pretty much the only thing of value in Kosovo, and 3) control over the heroin trade routes.
We had a grand total of 26 Serbs in the Ferizaj region.
I didn’t “forget” about the Serbs – there weren’t enough of them to be worth mentioning. I didn’t mention the minority Ashkalia or Roma either. It’s plausible that a Kosovar-Serb could have committed the killings, but the whole “allahu akhbar” thing sort of gave it away.
BTW, I read today that the young punk was born and raised in Germany, so he wouldn’t have experienced first-hand the liberation by American forces of his parent’s country. This tells us more about the radicalization of European muslims more than it does Albanian muslims.
Mire upafshim.
I don’t take offense from you calling me names – this is normal and cultivated behaviour on this blog.
I take offense from you ignoring the Serbs, which is normal and cultivated behaviour in the predominantly Catholic and Protestand West. For you the Greek Orthodox Serbs are non-human, which is obvious from your earlier omission and your ferocious defense of that omission.
Americans in particular and NATO in general, coaxed into bombing the Serbs are despicable monsters, blind in your stupidity. You always choose a wrong side. It explains your economy now sliding into oblivion.
It should read:
…coaxed into bombing the Serbes by Germany…
Aaron you ignorant idiot.
I didn’t call you a name, I made an observation about your intellect.
The issue at hand was the murder of US airmen by A MUSLIM of Kosovar-Albanian descent. Other people made comments about the ingratitude for our protection and liberation of them.
I diligently explained that the muslims in Kosovo are not religious, much to the chagrin of local religious leaders. I explained that muslim extremist groups were attempting to recruit in Kosovo in 2001.
I didn’t “forget” the Serbs – they were not the issue here.
For your information, I spent the better part of my deployment making sure those 26 Serbs didn’t get killed, had adequate food and firewood, and repairing damage to their houses from teenage rock throwers.
I drank Rakia with them in their homes, made from plums grown in their back yards. I brought an old Serb lady Christmas gifts. We protected the local Serbian Orthodox church which sat right beside the mosque in Urosevac/Ferizaj. We worked closely with the Greek troops who were responsible for security in the city – the Greeks being “cousins” to the Serbs. I had a great friendship with the Greek commander whose wife, like me, is an economist.
When a Serb man died, my team escorted his body and his family to their ancestral home where we buried him. We were honored guests at his funeral.
I went to Christmas mass in the very church where Mother Teresa took her vows. We bought 300 pumpkins from a Serb farmer for our Halloween Party, and had them as guests.
I didn’t choose that war. My commander in chief and congress did. They decided that Milosevic was committing genocide. And having been there and seeing mass graves and the sites of massacres and recognizing the human oppression, I agree with them.
I don’t hate the Serbs. I was very fond of them in Kosovo. Even they were men enough to admit Milosevic had done wrong. You are not such a man.
Aaron, you are a petulant troll. You have nothing significant or intelligent to say.
> I diligently explained that the muslims in Kosovo are not religious
That did not prevent them from yelling ‘Allah Ekber’ while robbing, shooting, beheading and raping Serbs.
And I made an observation that you are a cold blooded murderer of Serbs, whom you consider too insignificant to even mention as part of Kosovo population. Your ‘Nuremberg excuse’ is just as void as that of Nazi officers.
> You have nothing significant or intelligent to say.
No one will ever shut me up – certainly not you. Косово је Србија
I suppose you missed the part where I talked about Kosovar-Albanian terrorists, organized crime, and isolated religious fanaticism.
I never killed anyone in 21 years of service. As I said, I spent my tour in Kosovo helping people of all ethnicities, and we spent a disproportionate amount of time and money helping the Serbs.
I remember the time a woman from Belgrade was kidnapped to be sold as a “wife” to an Ashkali man. When he rejected her, they dumped this Serbian woman on the streets of the most Albanian city in all of Kosovo. We picked her up, fed her, found her shelter, and got her back to Belgrade.
Aaron, možeš da nam pušiš. Jebem te mutavog!
Or, if you prefer:
Aарон, можеш да нам пушиш. Јебем те мутавог!
ођеби, свињо.