More Deaths from gun control

Authorities say incident which left 2 U.S. airmen dead,
blamed on 21-year-old ethnic Albanian, could have been worse


(AP)
The pistol used by the suspect in the slaying of two U.S. airmen at
the Frankfurt airport malfunctioned during the attack, preventing
even greater loss of life, a German investigator said Friday.


Suspect Arid Uka, a 21-year-old ethnic Albanian from Kosovo,
refused to talk when formally charged Thursday before a judge
with two counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder,
but made lengthy statements to police shortly after the Wednesday
attack, prosecutor Rainer Griesbaum said.


Uka told authorities that he had gone to the airport specifically to
kill Americans "as revenge for the American mission in Afghanistan," Griesbaum said.


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He said a YouTube video he saw the day before the incident
allegedly showing a raid on a home by U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan
had inspired him to prevent "further cruelties."


When he saw the busload of 15 airmen parked outside Terminal 2,
he approached an airman outside and, under the pretext of asking
for a cigarette, asked if the servicemen were on their way to Afghanistan.


"When he said yes, he shot the 25-year-old serviceman from behind
in the head," Griesbaum said.


Uka then stormed onto the bus, yelling "Allah Akbar!" — Arabic
for "God is great!" — and shot the driver in the head, killing him as well, Griesbaum said.


He then shot a 25-year-old airman who was sitting on the bus twice,
and then turned his gun on another airman, 21 and fired once,
injuring both of them, Griesbaum said.


"Then he tried to shoot a 22-year-old," Griesbaum said. "He pointed
his pistol at his head and pulled the trigger twice, but the pistol
jammed and no shots came out."


Even though there were still six shots in the magazine, the jam
prevented any further firing and Uka fled the bus.


The would-be final victim gave chase and caught up with Uka in
the terminal at the same time as two German federal police
officers and apprehended him.


He also was armed with two knives.


German authorities believe that Uka radicalized recently and acted
alone — but Griesbaum said the incident shows that there is a
serious danger even if extremists are not part of a radical network.


"It underscores the danger of Islamists acting alone," he said.





So far as I understand, Bill Clinton's gun control Executive Order
(the one that resulted in the DEFENSELESSNESS of the victims of
Fort Hood murders) remains in effect,
requiring these military victims to travel around unarmed.





David