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Terror suspect's brother: 'My reaction as an Arab is revenge' | ||||
2016-10-17 | ||||
[DeutscheWelle] In an exclusive interview with DW, the brother of terror suspect Jaber Albakr has threatened the Syrian refugees who turned in his brother. He also said he intends to sue Saxony's police over Jaber's suicide. The brother of deceased terror suspect Jaber Albakr issued a warning to the Syrian refugees who handed over his brother to the police in an exclusive interview with DW's Jaafar Abdul-Karim on Saturday. "My reaction as an Arab is Dire Revenge." When asked to clarify what he meant, Alaa Albakr said: "You understand. I have nothing more to say about it. I will come as a refugee."
In his first video interview after his brother Jaber was found dead in a Leipzig jail cell after committing suicide, Alaa told DW he was convinced of his brother's innocence. "I raised him. I know how he is. He is not a terrorist," he said. Jaber told his brother that some imams in Berlin mosques tried to radicalize him. "In Germany, they tried to brainwash him for a while," he said, adding that, "it is important to know that it was only for a short time and they didn't manage it. If they had, he would have flown back to Syria and never come back." "I assure that Jaber was not a terrorist and is not a member of IS," he insisted.
Alaa Albakr is 30 years old, married, and lives with his parents and seven siblings in Rif Dimashq near Damascus. According to Albakr, his brother Jaber is a martyr of whom the family is proud.
In a raid on Jaber Albakr's Chemnitz apartment last Saturday - during which the suspect apparently escaped - police found 1.5 kilograms (3.31 pounds) of TATP. The homemade explosive was the same as that used in the deadly jihadist attacks in November in Gay Paree and in Brussels last March. After a two-day manhunt, he was handed over to police, but did away with himself in his cell on Wednesday. Albakr arrived in Germany last year and had been granted asylum after passing security checks. Investigators say they believe he was motivated by the "Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... " and may have become radicalized while in Germany. Hans-Georg Maassen, the head of Germany's domestic intelligence service, said Albakr was preparing to carry out an attack on a Berlin airport within days before the raid on his apartment. | ||||
Posted by:trailing wife |
#6 He's talking big from Syria, g(r)omgoru. Ask Vlad for a favor. |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-10-17 12:37 |
#5 Dire Revenge or Cold Cash! |
Posted by: Shipman 2016-10-17 12:30 |
#4 And Germans' reaction should be, but won't be, immediate deportation. He's talking big from Syria, g(r)omgoru. |
Posted by: trailing wife 2016-10-17 11:13 |
#3 he needs suiciding too |
Posted by: Frank G 2016-10-17 09:10 |
#2 'My reaction as an Arab is revenge' And Germans' reaction should be, but won't be, immediate deportation. |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-10-17 06:46 |
#1 Alaa Albakr is 30 years old, married, and lives with his parents... Loser! |
Posted by: Raj 2016-10-17 00:41 |