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[martinuzz]

German police chief tells die Welt that the Pakistani man they apprehended is possibly not the perpetrator. They fear that the real culprit is still at large, and might cause more victims.

https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article160462226/Berliner-Polizei-Wir-haben-den-falschen-Mann.html

[LoSboccacc]

German police chief tells die Welt that the Pakistani man they apprehended is possibly not the perpetrator. They fear that the real culprit is still at large, and might cause more victims.

https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article160462226/Berliner-Polizei-Wir-haben-den-falschen-Mann.html

/puts tinfoil hats

how convenient, so they can pin subsequent attacks without having to whitewash the news - "see? lone wolf, totally the same dude"

[Kot]

Only officials should operate trucks! They should be stored centrally in secure, guarded, armored warehouses only! The citizens of EU demand security!

Spoiler: Officials... (click to show/hide)

[martinuzz]

He kinda looks like a (younger) Quentin Tarantino

[martinuzz]

Brussels ain't French.

Oh sorry, I should have added Belgium (and Madrid). Sorry London, Brexit and all.

[Kot]

He kinda looks like a (younger) Quentin Tarantino

Spoiler: His new movie is amazing. (click to show/hide)

[Leafsnail]

German police chief tells die Welt that the Pakistani man they apprehended is possibly not the perpetrator. They fear that the real culprit is still at large, and might cause more victims.

https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article160462226/Berliner-Polizei-Wir-haben-den-falschen-Mann.html

/puts tinfoil hats

how convenient, so they can pin subsequent attacks without having to whitewash the news - "see? lone wolf, totally the same dude"

What's convenient? They just seem to have arrested the wrong guy, there's no evidence that he did it (and forensics suggest he could not have shot the driver).

If this is a terror attack is probably is a lone wolf since no-one has claimed responsibility.

[Dorsidwarf]

Thats kinda weird that nobody's claimed it yet. Werent IS making a thing of claiming every islam-related terrorist attack a while back, even ones that analysts said were probbably lone wolfs?

[smjjames]

Thats kinda weird that nobody's claimed it yet. Werent IS making a thing of claiming every islam-related terrorist attack a while back, even ones that analysts said were probbably lone wolfs?

Even then, they often were inspired by Isis. A lone wolf just means the person isn't part of a cell or a network and is acting alone.

It is a bit odd though that nobody has claimed it. Though it also makes some sense that nobody might want to claim it because it'll make Russia and Turkey focus fire on them. The motivations of the guy are pretty clear (bombardment of Aleppo, the whole Syria mess), but whether he's connected to anybody or is a lone actor isn't known yet.

[Rolepgeek]

honestly I'm not certain it wasn't a plant or a deliberate allowance on Russia's part. It's the sort of thing KGB might do.

[martinuzz]

honestly I'm not certain it wasn't a plant or a deliberate allowance on Russia's part. It's the sort of thing KGB might do.

You mean Russia would assassinate it's own diplomat to further the cause of improving relations with Turkey using the 'your enemy is our enemy' rethoric?

I guess it makes more sense than Obama having ordered it in retaliation to the election tampering.

[smjjames]

honestly I'm not certain it wasn't a plant or a deliberate allowance on Russia's part. It's the sort of thing KGB might do.

It did seem pretty strange how that ambassador is supposedly the most protected ambassador in Turkey and yet that guy was the only security guy there and they had to send police in to neutralize the guy. Then again, I don't know what 'most protected' looks like in Turkey, I assume the same way or close to as the POTUS.

There was also, hours after that, some guy shooting a shotgun in the air outside the US embassy in Turkey shouting "I swear to god, don't you mess with us!". That person was arrested without issues.

[Rolepgeek]

honestly I'm not certain it wasn't a plant or a deliberate allowance on Russia's part. It's the sort of thing KGB might do.

You mean Russia would assassinate it's own diplomat to further the cause of improving relations with Turkey using the 'your enemy is our enemy' rethoric?

I guess it makes more sense than Obama having ordered it in retaliation to the election tampering.

Or even just deliberately fail to prevent him being assassinated. 'enemy of our enemy' wasn't what I was thinking though, mostly 'see we have to be involved and this justifies anything we do!'

[smjjames]

I really don't think we need to bring complex machinations into this. Though clearly someone screwed up with security for the ambassador.

[Leafsnail]

Thats kinda weird that nobody's claimed it yet. Werent IS making a thing of claiming every islam-related terrorist attack a while back, even ones that analysts said were probbably lone wolfs?

If you're talking about the ambassador assassin it seems likely he's aligned with other rebel groups that are hostile to IS. Those have received Turkish backing in the past.

For the truck attack I guess things are just too murky at this point. There wasn't even any kind of statement or note from the attacker so it's unclear if it's even politically motivated at all.