2 U.S. Airmen killed at Frankfurt airport (UPDATED) (Wizbang)

2 more injured.

My guess is that the shooter was a deranged Catholic or perhaps a disturbed Jew and certainly not a peaceful Muslim:

A gunman opened fire Wednesday on U.S. servicemembers aboard a bus at the main airport in Frankfurt, Germany, an airport spokesman said.

Two U.S. airmen were killed and two airmen were injured, one seriously, Maj. Beverly Mock, a spokeswoman for U.S. Air Forces in Europe, said.

"What we know is that a man opened fire on a bus with U.S. soldiers which was standing in front of Terminal 2 on Frankfurt airport," said Manfred Fuellhard, spokesman from Frankfurt police.

The wounded were brought to a Frankfurt hospital, but Fuellhard would not identify which hospital.

CNN was reporting that the troops killed and injured are U.S. Air Force airmen from Royal Air Force Lakenheath base in the United Kingdom, emphasizing that the information was preliminary.

Fuellhard said the shooter is believed to be a young man from Kosovo, who had opened fire from inside the bus. He is in custody of airport security forces, Fuellhard said.

Isn't Kosovo a haven for deranged Catholics and disturbed Jews?

UPDATE: An unusual report from ABC News:

A gunman shouting "Allah Akbar" opened fire on a bus carrying U.S. airmen in Frankfurt, Germany, killing two and wounding two others before his gun jammed and he was subdued, officials said.

I think before we jump to any conclusions here, it's important to note that "Allah Akbar" can sound alot like "Our Father" in the heat of the moment... or even "Adonai Eloheinu" as bullets are whizzing by... anyone assuming that this is a Jihadist attack is obviously bigoted and Islamophobic... intolerant and close-minded... and likely a xenophobe to boot.

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It seems to me that most mu... (Below threshold)

1. Posted by mag | March 2, 2011 2:10 PM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)

mag:

It seems to me that most muslim men are power kegs ready to go off by any real or imagined insult, offense, or whatever.
They make Neanderthals look sophisticated.

Posted on March 2, 2011 14:10

<a href="http://www.youtube... (Below threshold)

2. Posted by Constitution First | March 2, 2011 2:18 PM | Score: 0 (4 votes cast)

Constitution First:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbODywI1t-I

Posted on March 2, 2011 14:18

You may recall that US Airm... (Below threshold)

3. Posted by Jim Addison | March 2, 2011 2:24 PM | Score: 5 (7 votes cast)

Jim Addison:

You may recall that US Airmen liberated Kosovo from the Serbian boot.

Barbarians aren't a grateful lot, though.

Posted on March 2, 2011 14:24

Too bad they didn't use tha... (Below threshold)

4. Posted by GarandFan | March 2, 2011 3:43 PM | Score: 6 (6 votes cast)

GarandFan:

Too bad they didn't use that jammed gun to beat him to death. Now he'll get a 'show trail'.

Posted on March 2, 2011 15:43

Or just perceptive as hell!... (Below threshold)

5. Posted by Gayle Miller | March 2, 2011 4:01 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)

Gayle Miller:

Or just perceptive as hell!

Posted on March 2, 2011 16:01

Prayers to the families of ... (Below threshold)

6. Posted by epador | March 2, 2011 4:17 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)

epador:

Prayers to the families of the murdered and to those injured. The report I read stated these were USAF cops if so, too bad they didn't have canines to tear him to pieces

maybe the kraits will let us wear weapons now since they couldn't stop the bloodshed

Posted on March 2, 2011 16:17

Where are the good Serbs wh... (Below threshold)

7. Posted by TexBob | March 2, 2011 4:53 PM | Score: 1 (5 votes cast)

TexBob:

Where are the good Serbs when you need them.

Posted on March 2, 2011 16:53

The shooter was clearly a R... (Below threshold)

8. Posted by SCSIwuzzy | March 2, 2011 6:39 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)

SCSIwuzzy:

The shooter was clearly a Return of the Jedi fan. He was shouting "All ya! Ackbar!"
I hear his t-shirt read "It's a Trap"

Posted on March 2, 2011 18:39

Apparently the bowing stuff... (Below threshold)

9. Posted by Sarah the Impaler | March 2, 2011 7:28 PM | Score: 4 (6 votes cast)

Sarah the Impaler:

Apparently the bowing stuff ain't working.

Posted on March 2, 2011 19:28

TexBob, the "good Serbs" ar... (Below threshold)

10. Posted by hyperbolist | March 2, 2011 9:41 PM | Score: -4 (6 votes cast)

hyperbolist:

TexBob, the "good Serbs" are not Muslims but neither are the "bad Serbs". Serbs are all Christian.

Actually Rick, Kosovo was full of deranged Catholics and Serbian Orthodox who were in the process of committing genocide until they were stopped by international forces. I suppose that they should have been allowed to 'finish the job', as their victims were Muslim?

Posted on March 2, 2011 21:41

Actually Rick, Kos... (Below threshold)

11. Posted by Brett | March 2, 2011 10:04 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)

Brett :

Actually Rick, Kosovo was full of deranged Catholics and Serbian Orthodox who were in the process of committing genocide until they were stopped by international forces.

Uh, US Forces, twit. And I would note that in fact, we were there *saving muslims*. This is our reward.

Posted on March 2, 2011 22:04

NATO does not mean America,... (Below threshold)

12. Posted by hyperbolist | March 2, 2011 10:19 PM | Score: -4 (8 votes cast)

NATO does not mean America, "twit".

And you appear to have missed my point, Brett: the people saved from genocide were Muslims, and one of those saved may have just murdered two airmen, and yet saving them from genocide was the right thing to do, no matter what those people would later go on to do in life, and it's good that all decent people agree with that.

Anyone else not clear on the meaning of Serb/Kosovar/Albanian/Christian/Muslim can avail themselves of this information on the internet.

Posted on March 2, 2011 22:19

"NATO does not mean America... (Below threshold)

13. Posted by jim m | March 3, 2011 12:19 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)

jim m:

"NATO does not mean America"

Technically, this is correct. In reality NATO forces apart from the US are virtually impotent. Most cannot transport themselves outside of their own nation without our assistance. They cannot project any real power outside their own borders with the exception of the UK. I'm at a loss to think of any NATO action where the US was not a major part. I don't think that NATO could sustain any operation (Even one as close as Yugoslavia) without our help.

Posted on March 3, 2011 00:19

Actually Hyper I think you ... (Below threshold)

14. Posted by jim m | March 3, 2011 12:23 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)

Actually Hyper I think you missed the sarcasm with regard to the ethnic/religious issue.

Posted on March 3, 2011 00:23

Let me say that the "United... (Below threshold)

15. Posted by lucalind | March 3, 2011 12:52 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

lucalind:

Let me say that the "United Forensic College" is the friendliest, most helpful and accessible college out there right now. The Criminal Justice curriculum isn’t going to overwhelm you.

Posted on March 3, 2011 00:52

Anyone else not clear on th... (Below threshold)

16. Posted by Howie | March 3, 2011 1:04 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

Howie:

Anyone else not clear on the meaning of NATO/Coalition/Joint Operations can avail themselves of this information on the internet.

They will find - US Forces.

Posted on March 3, 2011 01:04

" intolerant and close-mind... (Below threshold)

17. Posted by retired military | March 3, 2011 6:46 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)

retired military:

" intolerant and close-minded... and likely a xenophobe to boot."

You forgot racist as well.

Posted on March 3, 2011 06:46

If we had left the Serbs al... (Below threshold)

18. Posted by Olsoljer | March 3, 2011 7:46 AM | Score: -1 (3 votes cast)

Olsoljer:

If we had left the Serbs alone, I have the feeling these 2 airmen would still be alive.

Posted on March 3, 2011 07:46

The way security was set up... (Below threshold)

19. Posted by epador | March 3, 2011 8:36 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

The way security was set up at Framkfurt for the US military I am surprised this hadnt happened earlier

Posted on March 3, 2011 08:36

Olsoljer, I didn't think an... (Below threshold)

20. Posted by hyperbolist | March 3, 2011 11:03 AM | Score: 0 (4 votes cast)

Olsoljer, I didn't think anyone would actually outright admit that maybe allowing the Serbs to massacre the Albanians would have been a preferable course of action to preventing genocide. You know, killing tens of thousands of people to prevent the loss of two lives.

Are you dumb, or are you evil?

Posted on March 3, 2011 11:03

Murderers with guns are "gu... (Below threshold)

21. Posted by Brian Richard Allen | March 3, 2011 11:07 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)

Brian Richard Allen:

Murderers with guns are "gunmen" (shouldn't that be gunpersons?" -- and those with bombs strapped to their own or some other jalabiyah-lifting, mattress-munching, turd-burgling, pillow-biting, sister, goat and little-boy buggerer, are "militants."

Just as well none of them are psychopathologically-hesperophobic islamanazi terrorists, eh?

Posted on March 3, 2011 11:07

So which people are we supp... (Below threshold)

22. Posted by SCSIwuzzy | March 3, 2011 11:57 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)

So which people are we supposed to save from "genocide"? I'd appreciate a cheat sheet for use in the future.

Posted on March 3, 2011 11:57

"Are you dumb, or are you e... (Below threshold)

23. Posted by rettired military | March 3, 2011 11:57 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)

rettired military:

"Are you dumb, or are you evil?"

So speask Hyper who in the past has stated that there is a good argument for unborn children to be considered people, states that people should be able to cut off their own limbs if they want to, advocates murdering unborn children so people wont be inconvenienced by them, and states that under certain circumstances that doctors should be allowed to commit infanticide.

Hyper you have no creditbility asking anyone if they are evil or stupid.

Equating abortion with geno... (Below threshold)

24. Posted by hyperbolist | March 3, 2011 12:37 PM | Score: -1 (1 votes cast)

Equating abortion with genocide, retired military, is awfully to shitting all over the victims of the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, and Stalin's purges for comfort.

Go on, though. I welcome any and all efforts to further marginalize the anti-choice movement with these asinine comparisons.

Posted on March 3, 2011 12:37

awfully close*Duh.... (Below threshold)

25. Posted by hyperbolist | March 3, 2011 1:00 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

awfully close*

Duh...

Posted on March 3, 2011 13:00

When you consider Sanger's ... (Below threshold)

26. Posted by SCSIwuzzy | March 3, 2011 1:36 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)

When you consider Sanger's views on black folks, and the disproportionate number of black babies aborted, the genocide comparison is not really all that weak.
But which genocides were we supposed to take up arms to stop? Still could use that scorecard.

Posted on March 3, 2011 13:36

Go on, though. I welcome an... (Below threshold)

27. Posted by 914 | March 3, 2011 1:50 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

914:

Go on, though. I welcome any and all efforts to further marginalize the anti-choice movement with these asinine comparisons..

You are not even in this Country for one. So mind your own business. More People have been killed through abortion/murder then were murdered /killed during the Holocaust.

Cutting the funding, just like Walker Wisconsin Ranger is cutting the pork, is essential.

So the comparison is only weak to a weak mind.

Posted on March 3, 2011 13:50

Not according to the law, 9... (Below threshold)

28. Posted by hyperbolist | March 3, 2011 3:13 PM | Score: -1 (3 votes cast)

Not according to the law, 913.5. In fact, according to the law, no person has ever been killed by a legal abortion, except for when the woman dies as a result of complications from the procedure. So zero would be a great deal less than, what, 9 million, right?

And it is my business. The anti-choice movement in your country seeps across the border and energizes the radical minority here that share your views. Ditto for creationists and climate science deniers. Also, are you implying that I can't take interest in the reproductive rights of American women? Fuck you.

SCSI, it is a totally weak comparison. Abortion isn't murder. It's legal. Using it eugenically is a separate issue.

Posted on March 3, 2011 15:13

Hyper.I was not eq... (Below threshold)

29. Posted by retired military | March 3, 2011 9:25 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)

Hyper.

I was not equating abortion to genocicde. You will notice that I didnt comment one way or the other on the statement you commented on. I mean 34 million unborn babies killed vs 6 million people during the holocaust. noone can see a similarity there.

I was commenting on your calling someone stupid and or evil and merely stating the obvious. You have no business calling anyone either considering your past statements.

Posted on March 3, 2011 21:25

rm, what's an "unborn baby"... (Below threshold)

30. Posted by hyperboist | March 3, 2011 10:01 PM | Score: 0 (4 votes cast)

hyperboist:

rm, what's an "unborn baby"? Is that like a square circle?

You get what I'm saying? Genocide is a crime against humanity, whereas abortion is a medical procedure. Jews are people, fetuses are not. I respect your position but it's not mine and it's the position of the United States' government since the 70s--including Reagan and Bush Jr.

Posted on March 3, 2011 22:01

*not* the position of the g... (Below threshold)

31. Posted by hyperboist | March 3, 2011 10:04 PM | Score: -1 (1 votes cast)

*not* the position of the gov't

Duh, again...

Posted on March 3, 2011 22:04

Buddy, I came hear after he... (Below threshold)

32. Posted by sanman | March 3, 2011 11:39 PM | Score: -1 (1 votes cast)

sanman:

Buddy, I came hear after hearing about your crookedly opportunistic garbage comments:

http://www.youtube.com/user/NewsyVideos#p/a/u/1/sMn_1Vs4BKA

"I think before we jump to any conclusions here, it's important to note that "Allah Akbar" can sound alot like "Our Father" in the heat of the moment... or even "Adonai Eloheinu" as bullets are whizzing by... anyone assuming that this is a Jihadist attack is obviously bigoted and Islamophobic... intolerant and close-minded... and likely a xenophobe to boot."

You really need your head examined. What absolute swill.

Posted on March 3, 2011 23:39

When the Germans started te... (Below threshold)

33. Posted by epador | March 4, 2011 9:15 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

When the Germans started terminating the mentally feeble and physically impaired, that was also termed a medical procedure and under the guidance of physicians. SO that was OK too, right hyper? And then they extended their application of eugenics to more medical procedures, like involuntary sterilization. So that wasn't genocide either, was it? It sure was legal, under German law at the time.

So tell me again how you know that abortion, a medical procedure, and the termination of life in fetuses, unborn children, isn't murder because US law says it isn't?

Posted on March 4, 2011 09:15

You're comparing the laws o... (Below threshold)

34. Posted by hyperbolist | March 4, 2011 11:10 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

You're comparing the laws of the United States to the laws of Nazi Germany?

Christ epador, I thought you were a doctor. Do you really hate America that much?

Posted on March 4, 2011 11:10

HYyper "fetuses ar... (Below threshold)

35. Posted by retired military | March 5, 2011 8:48 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

HYyper

"fetuses are not"

Yet you yourself said on this board a few months ago that there are good reasons to consider a fetus as human.

As for laws.

Hey slavery was legal 150 years ago. Are you going to say that is a good thing. Killing jews in Germany was legal 70 years ago. Are you going to say that is a good thing. Apartheid was legal a generation ago. Are you going to defend that?

Many babies can live outside their mother weeks before they are born.

What is the difference between a woman going in at the last minute before birth and saaying she wants a partial birth abortion and getting it and a doctor killing a baby just born. Yeah. about 2 minutes in time and one in legal in some states and the other isnt.

But wait I forgot. YOu stated in a previous argument that doctors should be allowed to kill new borns in certain circumstances. That is illegal but yet you are arguing for it.

Again Hyper You continue to prove my original argument.

When it comes to being stupid or evil you cant really talk about anyone else without looking at yourself first.

Posted on March 5, 2011 20:48

BTW HyperInfantici... (Below threshold)

36. Posted by retired military | March 6, 2011 7:54 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

BTW Hyper

Infanticide
People being allowed to cut off their own limbs.
Doctors being allowed to kill babies after they are born.

You would make the Nazis proud. At least you are from Canada. Do us a favor and stay there.

Posted on March 6, 2011 07:54

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