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Islamic gunman targets U.S. military at German airport

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caption id alignalignleft width210 captionThere are several US military bases in Germany today. Photo BBC img srchttpcdn2b.examiner.comsitesdefaultfilesstyleslargehash03700370b91038fbe23f2b87cc99e81ec704.jpg alt width210 height113 captiondivTwo U.S. Air Forceairmenwere killed and anothertwo were wounded on Wednesday in an attack on a bus carryingU.S. military personnel at Germanys Frankfurt International Airport.divdivA counterterrorism expert told the Law Enforcement Examinerthat an armed, white maleboarded a U.S. military busparked in front of aterminal and opened fire on the bus driver and thepassengersas he yelled Allah Ahkbar! The two menkilled wereU.S. airmen.divdivTheshooter isbelieved to be a 21year old Albanianfrom Kosovo. According to FoxNews, the U.S.troops onboard the businvolved in the attack weredestined forAfghanistan deployment.divdivThere have been a number ofterrorist plotstargetingU.S. militarymembers and installationsin Germany in the past. Those attacks were classifed asarmed jihadist assaults that were advocated by Americanborn radical Islamic cleric Anwar alAwlaki during his diatribeson Internet web sites.divdivAlAwlakiis closelytied to U.S. Major Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 victims and wounded others at the Fort Hood militarybase in Texas inthe shockingNovember 2009 shooting spree.divdivdivIt is widely reported by local media thatthe menkilled were a U.S. Air Forcepersonnel, buttheir identities hav not beenreleased byGermanpolice officersnor by superiors atthe U.S. European Command, headquartered in southwest Germany.divdivPolice saidthe suspect from Kosovo has been arrested and is being questioned by local police and officers from the U.S. Armys Criminal Investigation Division CID. There were no details on how many passengers were in the bus or why the man shot at them.Located in southern Germany, Frankfurt airport is one of the busiest transport within theEuropean Union. The United States haspossessed several militarybases in the Frankfurt region since the end of World War II. The military usesshuttle bus servicesto transport U.S. servicemen between the bases and airports.Ironically, during the unrest in Kosovoin 19925 Muslim, in whichCroat Catholic and Serb Orthodox factions fought for control of Bosnia,the United States intervened in the conflict decisively with air power on the side of the Muslims. The result was the Dayton Peace Accords, negotiated in Dayton, Ohio and signed in Paris September 14, 1995. These accords were signed by the Republic of BosniaHerzegovina, the Republic of Croatia, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.There is also a large Albanian Muslim population that isconsidered more moderate andpeaceful than their Middle Eastern brethren.divdiv