Islamist Rafik Mohamad Yousef was shot dead today after he stabbed a German policewoman.
Yousef, from Iraq, served time in Germany for threatening a terrorist attack on a foreign official.
UPDATE: Iraqi 'Islamist' shot dead after knife attack on a #German policewoman identified as Rafik Mohamad Yousef. pic.twitter.com/PTc4qdXFOI
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AFP reported, via Weasel Zippers:
An Iraqi man who spent time in jail for membership in an Islamist terrorist group was shot dead by German police Thursday after he stabbed and seriously wounded a policewoman.
The 41-year-old man had been convicted in 2008 of planning an attack in Berlin against former Iraqi prime minister Iyad Allawi, a prosecution spokesman told AFP.
Thursday’s incident began around 0700 GMT, when four police cars were called to the western Berlin district of Spandau because the man was reported acting aggressively and threatening passers-by, police said.
When a policewoman approached him, he stabbed her with a knife with a nine-centimetre (3.5 inch) blade in the neck area, before one of her colleagues opened fire, killing the Iraqi man and “suspected Islamist”, prosecutors said.
The 44-year-old woman was also hit accidentally by one of the bullets fired by her police colleague, said the prosecution service.
The Iraqi man had in the morning removed an electronic ankle monitor he had been ordered to wear after being released from prison.
Police kill convicted Islamic extremist Rafik Mohamad Yousef after knife attack in Berlin http://t.co/dYglRgr0ZQ pic.twitter.com/pc5AqzcVOQ
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