German terror makes everything worse

Wednesday, 21 December 2016

ISIS has laid claim to the German truck attack:

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the Berlin truck attack that killed 12 people, via its news station, as police released a suspect from custody a day after the deadly crash.

The attacker was a “soldier of the Islamic State” who acted in response to calls to target citizens of the coalition of states combating the organisation, the ISIS-linked Amaq news agency has claimed.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.