Dead German terror suspect ‘scouted big Berlin airport, spoke to ISIS contact’ – reports
‘A Syrian bomb plot suspect, who committed suicide in a Saxony jail after a two-day manhunt, eyed a “big airport in Berlin” as a “better” target than trains, and planned to make a suicide-vest. He was also in touch with IS contacts, reported German media.
German federal prosecutors discovered solid evidence, including bus tickets, which led them to the conclusion that Jaber al-Bakr, 22, had gone to Berlin one weekend in the second half of September, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS) reported. According to a report by the Berliner Morgenpost newspaper, the suspect not only spent a night there, but also scouted an airport as a potential target and met an Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) contact.’
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