By IRNA
Berlin : A German Islamist of Turkish origin is believed to have blown up himself in a suicide attack on a US military base in eastern Afghanistan on March 3 which killed two soldiers of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and two Afghan workers and injured six others, the press said Saturday.
Cuneyt C. who had lived lived near the south German city of Ansbach with his wife and two children, was allegedly responsible for the suicide assault on the US military post in the Afghan Khost province, the daily Bild newspaper and in the weekly news magazines, Der Spiegel and Focus, quoted unidentified German security sources as saying.
The 28-year-old German-born Cuneyt C. was also reported to have used an alias, Saad Ebu Furkan.
He is said to have quit his job in the spring of 2007 to return to Turkey, from where he travelled to Pakistan.
Cuneyt C. who is also linked to a German Islamist terrorist cell broken up on September 5 last year, is believed to be the first German Islamist to have killed himself in in a suicide attack.
German federal prosecutors as well as the Federal Crime Office (BKA) have yet to confirm that Cunyet C. was the suicide attacker.