Anis Amri, who turned 24 years old today, was in “regular contact” with group leader Abu Walaa, according to Der Spiegel.
If true, what was once believed to be a lone-wolf attack could be part of a deeper network connected to the ISIS terror cult.Iraqi-born Abu Walaa - whose real name is Ahmad Abdulaziz Abdullah - is popularly known as the “preacher without a face” after he featured in a series of videos while keeping his identity hidden.
The 32-year-old was arrested in November along with four others, accused of running a recruitment network to try to convince others to join the brutal Daesh regime.
Abu Walaa is believed to have played a key role in a number of attacks, including a bomb plot in the German city of Essen in April.He was even touted as ISIS’s “number one in Germany” by Anil O., a 22-year-old defector from the terrorist group who claimed it was Abu Walaa who originally recruited him as jihadi for the twisted terror group.
German magazine Focus claimed prime suspect Anis Amri was radicalised by two of Abu Walaa’s followers, known as Boban S and Hasan S.Police are offering up to £84,000 (€100,000) for any information that could lead to the Amri’s capture after the prime suspect allegedly drove a lorry into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people and leaving 48 injured.
He will spend his birthday continuing to try and evade authorities after he was touted as ‘Europe’s most wanted man’.German police and security forces were forced to admit that Amri had been monitored for six months for his extremist jihadi connections and other criminal activities.
They said Amri used six different names and three other nationalities and should have been deported from Germany after having an asylum application turned down.
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