Germany & Europe - Foreign Terrorist Network: Kurdish Iraqi Ansar al-Islam

---------------------------------------- ARTICLE ---------------------------------------- 'Islamist' shot dead after stabbing German policewoman AFP By Frank Zeller September 17, 2015 3:02 PM German police secure evidence after a jihadist was shot dead in Berlin, on September 17, 2015 The 41-year-old man had been convicted in 2008 of planning an attack in Berlin against former Iraqi prime minister Iyad Allawi, a prosecution spokesman told AFP. Thursday's incident began around 0700 GMT, when four police cars were called to the western Berlin district of Spandau because the man was reported acting aggressively and threatening passers-by, police said. When a policewoman approached him, he stabbed her with a knife with a nine-centimetre (3.5 inch) blade in the neck area, before one of her colleagues opened fire, killing the Iraqi man and "suspected Islamist", prosecutors said. The 44-year-old woman was also hit accidentally by one of the bullets fired by her police colleague, said the prosecution service. The Iraqi man had in the morning removed an electronic ankle monitor he had been ordered to wear after being released from prison. National news agency DPA quoted chief prosecutor Dirk Feuerberg as saying it was too early to speculate about a "terrorist motive", and that the man's apartment was being searched. Berlin police said on Twitter about the policewoman, who had been taken to hospital by helicopter, that "the condition of our colleague is stable, she remains in intensive care". The attacker died in an ambulance shortly after being shot, despite attempts to revive him. - 'Hot-tempered, aggressive' - Prosecution service spokesman Martin Steltner identified the Iraqi man as "Rafik Y.", saying he was sentenced in 2008 to an eight-year prison term for his role in a plot against Allawi. In the court case in the southwestern city of Stuttgart, Rafik Mohamad Yousef was one of three Iraqi men sentenced to jail terms, including time already spent behind bars during their trials. News site Spiegel Online reported he had returned to Berlin in 2013, and was kept under surveillance. Die Welt daily wrote that the convict could not be deported to Iraq under German law because he would face the death penalty there. The three men had been convicted of belonging to a foreign terrorist organisation -- Iraqi militant group Ansar al-Islam -- and attempted conspiracy to commit murder. Ansar al-Islam, a predominantly Kurdish group, was believed to have links to Al-Qaeda in Iraq. Yousef was believed to have volunteered to carry out the attack on Allawi, the court heard. Presiding judge Christine Rebsam-Bender described Yousef as "hot-tempered and aggressive" and cited his frequent outbursts, including an attack on a prison guard that broke the officer's rib. "Because they are Nazis!" Yousef shouted at the judge. Intelligence services at the time estimated the group had about 100 members in Germany connected to a wider network of supporters across western Europe. The court found that the plot to assassinate Allawi had been hatched only days before the premier's brief trip to Berlin in December 2004. http://news.yahoo.com/islamist-shot-dead-knife-attack-german-policewoman-prosecutors-161823337.html ---------------------------------------- COMMENT So we have someone who's done presumably something like 7 years prison at German taxpayer expense. But he is not alone:  he's one of three Iraqis that were convicted of the plot to kill. So that's x3 foreigners incarcerated for terrorist activities on German soil, at the German taxpayer's expense.   What is happening between these people ought to be happening on Middle Eastern soil, but it's been imported to Europe.  Imported to Europe, presumably because Germany inexplicably and insanely has some kind of immigrant intake arrangement, as part of the aftermath of US-allied military intervention in the region. Yeah, that makes all the sense in the world.  Attack a backward, brutal region of extremists of all descriptions, along with 'the Great Satan' USA, and then import them to Germany.  Brilliant plan. The terrorists are free to exit and re-enter Germany, because Germany cannot deport them or presumably shut them out at the border, as doing so would be detrimental to the terrorists -- who face death sentences abroad (because that's how they dispense with problems in Iraq, where these people are from) -- and would therefore be illegal under German law (and presumably also under international law). Ah, the practical application of what they call 'humanitarian' law.   Law, which obviously ought to be revised.  But that could take another few decades, by which time Berlin will be Baghdad. So, anyway, that's x3 unnecessary and substantial drains on taxpayer money, doing long prison stretches,  a danger to prison authorities, a danger inmates (if only in terms of 'radicalisation'), and an ongoing danger to the public once they get out prison. But they're catered to by the German taxpayer who has to pay for this and pay for the ongoing monitoring, 'rehabilitation' and welfare of these foreigners. Oh, and pay for the broken ribs and neck stabbing compensation to the prison warder and police victim; pay for all associated costs; pay for trauma to these persons, in one way or another, and potentially to their colleagues, etc. Hey, that's not all folks.   There's another 100 of these radical Middle Easterners running around Germany -- and they've got a wider support network all over Europe, according to German intelligence ... 'intelligence' who can't be all that intelligent, if they've imported this mayhem to Europe in the first place! The Middle Eastern players, factors and politics are irrelevant to Germans and Europeans, and the issues should have been confined to to the Middle East, whether or not the German and other European governments have chosen to engage in these matters abroad.  This is not rightfully the Germany public problem, but it is now thanks to the morons that have opened Europe's doors to non-Europeans from war zones of all descriptions. Beyond the financial and enormous social costs to the German public, there is also a serious cost to the security and integrity of Europe itself. ---------------------------------------- Europa-Evropa ᛞ ᛞ