By DAVID McHUGH and DAVID RISING
Associated Press
FRANKFURT, Germany – Arid Uka grew up in a well-kept immigrant neighborhood in Frankfurt as the son of a relatively prosperous, not all that religious family of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo – a group notable more for their pro-American outlook than for mosque attendance.
But somewhere along the way, Uka turned very drastically from his upbringing.
German officials said Thursday the 21-year-old temporary letter sorter with the postal service has admitted targeting Americans when he opened fire with a handgun on a busload of 15 U.S. airmen at Frankfurt’s airport on their way to deployment in Afghanistan, killing two and wounding two more.