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2 US airmen killed, 2 injured in shooting at Frankfurt airport; suspect said to be from Kosovo | StarTribune.com
Boris Rhein, the top security official in the German state of Hesse where the shooting took place, identified the shooter as a 21-year-old from Kosovo.
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Kosovo Interior Minister Bajram Rexhepi identified the suspect as Arif Uka, a Kosovo citizen from the northern town of Mitrovica.
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In the past Western intelligence reports have said the region could be an ideal recruitment ground for the so-called "white al-Qaida" Muslims with Western features who could easily blend into European or U.S. cities and execute terrorist attacks.
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More recently, German police thwarted a plot in 2007 to attack U.S. facilities by members of the extremist Islamic Jihad Union.