The shooters' location was moving toward a synagogue. Oskar Deutsch is not a popular man. It would be remiss of me to dismiss the idea of an assassination attempt on him.
7 February 2019
By Raphael Ahren
It is up to the Israeli government to decide how to deal with the Austrian far-right Freedom Party, the head of the country’s Jewish community said this week, indicating his support for Jerusalem’s boycott of the FPOe. He stressed that many of the party’s members still harbor deeply anti-Semitic sentiments, and that the leadership is not doing enough to act against them.
Asked if the FPOe is truly anti-Semitic or merely far-right, Oskar Deutsch replied: “There have been 50 anti-Semitic incidents and neo-Nazi incidents [involving party members] in about 14 months. There were so many anti-Semitic incidents, that this question is entirely superfluous. It’s totally obvious.”...
The other thing is that a university in Afghanistan was shot up today, too. The only way the two incidents could be linked is if the attackers were Daesh. Daesh can be decentralized. If the two are related they were carried out for the purpose of terrorism with a greater impact. Otherwise, they are separate attacks by coincidence about the same day. In all honesty, I don't believe they are related.
Asked if the FPOe is truly anti-Semitic or merely far-right, Oskar Deutsch replied: “There have been 50 anti-Semitic incidents and neo-Nazi incidents [involving party members] in about 14 months. There were so many anti-Semitic incidents, that this question is entirely superfluous. It’s totally obvious.”...
The other thing is that a university in Afghanistan was shot up today, too. The only way the two incidents could be linked is if the attackers were Daesh. Daesh can be decentralized. If the two are related they were carried out for the purpose of terrorism with a greater impact. Otherwise, they are separate attacks by coincidence about the same day. In all honesty, I don't believe they are related.
The Austrian government has one of the attackers in Vienna. They will know upon autopsy who he could be affiliated with.
November 2, 2020
By Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Fatima Faizi
Kabul - Three gunmen laid siege to Afghanistan’s largest university (click here) on Monday, taking hostages, killing at least 19 people and wounding more than a dozen, officials said. It was the second deadly assault with mass casualties on an education center in the capital in just over a week.
The three assailants were killed after Afghan security forces and American troops moved to root them out, ending the siege after six hours, the Interior Ministry said.
At least one senior Afghan official blamed the Taliban, but the insurgent group denied responsibility and said the Islamic State had carried out the assault, which shattered the sanctity of the campus on a warm fall day.
The SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors online messaging of extremist groups, said later that an Afghanistan branch of the Islamic State had claimed responsibility in a statement that referred only to two attackers and described the targets as “graduate judges and investigators belonging to the apostate Afghan government.”...
