A 24-year old Tunisian man, named Anis Amri, drove a truck at speed into a crowd of shoppers in a Berlin market on Monday night, killing 12 and injuring 49. In the early hours of yesterday he was shot dead by Italian police in Milan after pulling a gun during a routine stop, and hurting a policeman. What is known about Amri? Apparently he fled to the Italian island of Lampedusa in 2011 after stealing a truck in Tunisia for which he was sentenced to 5 years in prison, in his absence. He was jailed for 4 years in Palermo for burning down a school. Italy tried to deport him back to Tunisia twice but they refused to take him. Why? Normally, it takes years and costs a fortune to extradite a criminal from another country, as India has found to its cost, but on this occasion Tunisia refused to take back a convicted fugitive. Perhaps, the government of Tunisia can be sued by families of victims for compensation. What about Germany? Amri was under surveillance by police after he was heard making an offer of a suicide attack in a phone call with an extremist preacher but he was not arrested. Instead, his surveillance was stopped. They managed to lose sight of him even though the US warned of risks of a market attack during the Christmas shopping season. Political correctness gone mad? If that was ineptitude it is criminal neglect that Amri was able to get hold of a gun, exactly a year after the attack on Paris that killed at least 130 people, and cross over into France and then into Italy. At the very least they should be able to stop smuggling of guns across borders. Open borders seems to have been designed for terrorists. After shooting him the police tried to revive Amri, as shown by an endotracheal tube and an intravenous line in photographs. The British were wise to vote for Brexit weren't they? Meanwhile, instead of helping in a smooth transfer of office to Donald Trump, Obama is trying to make his start as difficult as possible. Using an obscure 1953 law Obama has permanently banned drilling in parts of the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. After all, Obama studied law at Harvard. He has scrapped the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System which was started after 9/11 to monitor people coming from countries with active terrorist groups. Yesterday the US abstained from a vote in the UN Security Council condemning settlement building by Israel on occupied Palestinian lands. Obama has been president for 8 long years. Why is he taking all these actions now when he could really have made a difference had he done them in his first term? Because then he may have lost a large chunk of oil and Jewish money for his reelection. Mean and vindictive. He is proving Trump was right to question the place of his birth. We wait to see how much more damage he will do before he leaves. 2017 is going to be interesting.
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