NEFA Foundation: New Video of Most Wanted German Terrorist Eric Breininger
By Evan Kohlmann
The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a video released on October 21, 2008, of Eric Breininger, a German convert to Islam, who traveled to Pakistan and joined the Islamic Jihad Union (IJU). In the first half of 2008, the German authorities issued a warning that Breininger might be preparing attacks against German troops and buildings in Afghanistan. Recently, the German authorities issued a second warning that Breininger and his jihadi comrade from Germany, Houssain al-Malla, had left the Afghanistan-Pakistan area and possibly headed for Western Europe. In this new video statement, Breininger explains in German that he is still in Afghanistan and is not planning attacks in Germany. In an interview published on the NEFA site in June 2008, Breininger had warned that "Germany—along with every other nation taking part in the occupation [of Afghanistan]-should expect attacks by Muslims."
(For more on the IJU, see the October 2008 Special Report authored by NEFA Director of Analysis and Research Ron Sandee.)
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