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The gunman who shot dead two US airmen and wounded two others in a US Army bus at Frankfurt airport Wednesday may have had "Islamist" motives, German state prosecutors said Thursday. German and US authorities are undertaking an urgent investigation into whether further attacks on US soldiers in Germany are planned, according to media reports. However, Germany's interior minister said he did not feel the need to boost security measures at present, AFP reported. Hesse state Interior Minister Boris Rhein also said the suspect did not belong to a wider terrorist network or cell, according to the AP. Police arrested the man, whom authorities have identified as a 21-year old Kosovo national, after the attack. "There is suspicion that the killing may have been motivated by Islamism," prosecutors said in a statement. Media reports said he shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest) during the shooting. US President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he was outraged by the attack, and the Kosovo government condemned the shooting. The US has maintained troops in Kosovo since 1999, when a NATO bombing campaign pushed out Serbian forces. The US troops are now helping to oversee a fragile peace that has held since Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008. On Wednesday evening, people lit candles in Kosovo's capital Pristina and in the town of Mitrovica, where the assailant is thought to be from. The US Army bus had been transporting a team based in Britain from the airport to the Ramstein base, the US airforce said, before it was due to fly to Afghanistan. Agencies |
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