Kai Hirschmann (* 1965 in

Duisburg Duisburg (; , ) is a city in the Ruhr metropolitan area of the western States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Lying on the confluence of the Rhine (Lower Rhine) and the Ruhr (river), Ruhr rivers in the center of the Rhine-Ruh ...

, West Germany) is the deputy director of

Essen Essen () is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and Dortmund, as well as ...

's Institute for Terrorism Research and Security Policy and an author.Train bombing plot surprises Germany
ABC News Hirschmann has said

Hizb ut-Tahrir Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT; ) is an international pan-Islamist and Islamic fundamentalist political organization whose stated aim is the re-establishment of the Islamic caliphate to unite the Muslim community (called ''ummah'') and implement sharia glo ...

, an international Islamist organization, "shares the spirit of terrorism."The Muslim World After 9/11, page 346
Google In 2002 he warned, "Everything so far suggests that Stingers have been exported from Afghanistan to Africa and were used in this attack," referring to an attack against

Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...

i tourists in

Kenya Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country located in East Africa. With an estimated population of more than 52.4 million as of mid-2024, Kenya is the 27th-most-populous country in the world and the 7th most populous in Africa. ...

, "We can't rule out the possibility that these rockets have been brought into Europe. In the Balkans region,

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fostered ties with local rebels and nothing can be ruled out... we have to include missiles in our scenarios of possible attacks in Europe."Kenya rocket attack: Is Europe next?
Deutsche Welle

References

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