Perpetrators of Germany Attacks Had Contacts with ISIS Members in Saudi Arabia

BERLIN-The perpetrators of recent attacks in Ansbach and Würzburg in Germany had contacts with suspected ISIS members in Saudi Arabia, SPIEGEL has learned. Chat transcripts suggest one of the perpetrators may have been planning to strike again.

Transcripts of chats obtained by German authorities indicate that the two men involved in attacks in the German cities of Ansbach and Würzburg had repeated contact with suspected members of Islamic State via telephone numbers registered in Saudi Arabia, among other places, SPIEGEL has learned.

 Last month, Germany witnessed several attacks, but Berlin announced that only two of these attacks were terrorist.

Saudi Arabia has repeatedly been mentioned in investigations relating to terrorist attacks in Europe as the relation between the Wahhabi Saudi regime and terrorist organizations like “al-Qaeda”, “Jabhat al-Nusra” and “ISIS” seems to be deep and based common ideological principles; a relation that causes sympathy by the Saudi intelligence with the terrorists’ extremist thoughts so they facilitates their terrorist operations and give a blind eye to their activities on the Saudi land which has become the place where terrorists attacks are prepared and ordered.

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