Austria: 30,000 marathon runners were the target of a bloody Islamist attack in Vienna

Investigators of the State Protection Service were able to prevent the catastrophe at the last minute: Islamist terrorists were planning an explosive attack on this year’s Vienna Marathon on April 24. 30,000 runners were at the start of the event.

Apparently, the radical Muslims of IS wanted to avenge the death of their leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi and had chosen major events in Europe as targets for attacks. The terror boss blew himself up in north-western Syria during an operation by an American special commando. The following calls for revenge were also picked up by the officers of the intelligence service DSN (formerly BVT). Together with other services, they managed to blow the cover of a sleeper cell.

The newspaper “Krone” reports that the planned attack in Vienna was to be after the example of the terrorist attack at the marathon in Boston.
Interior Minister Karner ( Austrian People’s Party, ÖVP) confirmed the incident and applauded the work of the investigators: “The DSN has made a decisive contribution to counter-terrorism in Austria and has proven that it has succeeded in restoring international confidence in Austrian state security after the reorganisation”.

According to the Ministry of the Interior, the IS supporters arrested in Austria are persons from Iraq who are said to have played leading roles in the heyday of the IS.