Suicide bomber in Germany pledged allegiance to ISIS leader in video
By Frederik Pleitgen, Tim Hume and Euan McKirdy, CNN
Updated 11:31 AM ET, Mon July 25, 2016
A witness account of the German suicide bombing
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The ISIS-affiliated media group Amaq claims responsibility for the attack
Attacker plotted bombing as an "act of revenge" against Germans, authorities say
Ansbach, Germany (CNN)The Syrian suicide bomber who injured 15 people in a Sunday night attack on a music festival in Ansbach, Germany, left behind a video pledging allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said Monday.
The ISIS-affiliated media group Amaq also claimed responsibility for the attack.
In the video left on a mobile phone, the 27-year-old Syrian announced his threat to carry out an attack "as an act of revenge against Germans, because they obstruct Islam," Herrmann told a press conference. The man said the attack would be committed in the name of Allah as retaliation for the killing of Muslims. The bomber, who has not been named, was killed.
"I believe that after this video we cannot doubt that this attack was an Islamist terror attack," Herrmann said.
Can't be Islam because Obama says Moslems are peaceful.