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Arid Uka, Suspected Frankfurt Airport Shooter, Could Get Life Sentence

Arid Uka Trial

First Posted: 01/09/12 09:11 AM ET Updated: 01/09/12 09:30 AM ET

Associated Press

FRANKFURT, Germany -- Prosecutors are asking for a sentence of life in prison for an alleged Islamic extremist who has admitted killing two U.S. airmen at the Frankfurt airport last year.

The dapd news agency reported that Prosecutor Jochen Weingarten told the Frankfurt state court in closing arguments Monday that Arid Uka deserved the maximum possible sentence due to the brutal nature of the crime.

The 21-year-old ethnic Albanian from Kosovo confessed as the trial opened to killing two men at point-blank range before wounding two more airmen and taking aim at a third before his gun misfired.

Under German law the court still has to review all the evidence despite the confession.

A verdict is expected on Jan. 19.

 
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10:54 PM on 01/11/2012
Islam religion of peace, strikes again.
09:28 PM on 01/11/2012
It's high time we had a hangin'.
03:57 PM on 01/11/2012
stop calling them islamic extremists! They are muslims! Musliims!
03:51 PM on 01/11/2012
What !!!!! He "could" get a life sentence?

wtf...he should be getting a bullet between the eyes.
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Tyranny will rise when you do nothing
01:10 PM on 01/09/2012
Life imprisonment is best for islamic terrorists. If you execute them, they become martyrs.
09:17 AM on 01/12/2012
"They become martyrs"...only in their own eyes. In the eyes of the rest of us, they become the recipients of JUSTICE.
12:36 PM on 01/09/2012
21-year-old ethnic Albanian from Kosovo confessed as the trial opened to killing . Watch - http://tinyurl.com/6w4yls8