News that should shock no one: Killer of U.S. airmen is a radical Muslim

The man who shot and killed two American troops in Germany was a radicalized Muslim who seems to have been influenced by local radical Islamist websites, a German official has said. Arid Uka told interrogators that his aim was to kill American troops, said Boris Rhein, interior minister of the German state of Hesse, where the shooting took place. Two U.S. airmen were killed and two others were wounded in the attack on a U.S. military bus at Frankfurt Airport. The suspect confessed to the shooting. The indications are that the suspect was part of an extremist pro-al Qaeda network in Germany. He was friends on Facebook with several pro-al Qaeda extremists from a group based in Bonn, Germany, that is known to German intelligence officials. That included links to an Islamic preacher named Pierre Vogel and someone named Nessery, who was arrested in Afghanistan, according to a U.S. official with direct knowledge of the investigation.