Islamic State releases video of German bomber

Previously German police announced that the bomber had made a video pledging allegiance to Islamic State.

On searching the bomber’s room, Nuremberg police found diesel, hydrochloric acid, alcohol, batteries, paint thinner and pebbles – the same materials used in the bomb – and computer images and film clips linked to the militant group, they said.

Daleel, a 27-year-old Syrian refugee, speaks to the camera in a calm, steady voice, as he threatens the West, The New York Post reports.

SITE quoted the man in the video saying he was on a “martyrdom-seeking operation” in Ansbach, and calling for more attacks.

The video appeared to be the same as the one found by German investigators on the phone of man who blew himself, killing himself and wounding 15 people.

A week ago a refugee from Pakistan wielding an axe wounded five people near Wuerzbuerg, also in southern Germany, before he was shot dead by police.

“After that he announced in the name of Allah that he pledged allegiance to (IS chief) Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the well-known Islamist leader, and announced an act of revenge against Germans because they were standing in the way of Islam”.

“It’s possible he may have wanted to deposit the bomb at the entrance and remotely detonate later”, the source said.

The four brutal killings in Germany’s south, three of which were carried out by asylum-seekers, have shocked Germans and emboldened critics of Merkel’s welcoming refugee policy to blame her for the attacks.

Speaking alongside Herrmann at a press conference in the town of Gmund am Tegernsee before a state cabinet meeting, Bavarian governor Horst Seehofer and state Justice Minister Winfried Bausback rattled off a laundry-list of proposals, including adding more police, relaxing privacy laws to make it easier for authorities to observe online data like email and WhatsApp and Skype messages, better background checks on asylum seekers, and allowing the military to be called in to help during terrorist attacks. He later backtracked, citing worldwide law.

Seehofer leads the Christian Social Union, the sister party to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democrats, and has always been a vocal critic of the refugee influx for which Bavaria was the primary gateway. Many Muslims felt obliged to speak out against them and say these killings do not represent their faith, such as after DAESH’s extremist attacks in Paris that killed 130 people.

The attacks left ten victims dead and dozens wounded and have rekindled concerns about Germany’s ability to cope with the estimated 1 million migrants registered entering the country past year.

Merkel, who has led Europe’s economic powerhouse for almost 11 years, sought to project calm by remaining at her holiday cottage north of Berlin this week.

A rash of attacks in Germany has emboldened political rivals of Chancellor Angela Merkel, who blamed her liberal asylum policy yesterday for exposing the country to a shocking week of bloodshed.

A look at the terrifying events over the last week that have rocked Germany.