The Amri Story Just Never Ends

There's a pretty good update over the Christmas market terror action of 2016 in Berlin....over at N-TV (commercial German news).

If you don't remember the episode, here's the basic story.  On 19 December 2016, this failed-asylum visa guy from Tunisia...Anis Amri....took a tractor trailer rig and plowed through the Christmas market of Berlin (12 dead).  He escapes. Italian cops find him on the run around two weeks later....Amri is shot dead.

So started this investigation and clean-up campaign.  In some ways, it was a major embarrassment when they finally cleared the air. 

He had fourteen different identities.....signing up and getting asylum money was no problem.  The Germans at that point in time.....simply weren't prepared for someone to openly lie to them about the identity. 

Amri openly joined up with the Salifistian folks....with the cops not really able to say or do much.

So I come to the newest aspect of the Amri story (yes we are almost three years into the investigation).

Somewhere within intelligence circles....there is this video of Amri....weeks before the Berlin attack....waving a gun around and making his threat about assassinations in Germany.  It's made with his cellphone, for social media.

The BND (Germany's version of the CIA) holding it now?  Yes. 

So news networks (public TV,  NDR and WDR ) now report that a 'foreign' intelligence group collected it. 

It wasn't the BND?  No.  In fact, no one is really discussing who collected it. 

But here's this odd thing....the BKA (the German national police) was offered a copy of the video in early 2017 (about three months after the attack) and they turned it down.  They didn't want it.  Why?  No one says much but there's probably some speculation that it just opens up more questions over the guy. 

So we come to this last new thing that bothers people.  There's a fair amount of speculation now that Amri had a third cellphone.  No one argues about him having two, and that's been a fact since day one.  But there's some strong suggestions now that people missed on this third phone activity. 

For the politicians, police, and intelligence folks...it's over.  The guy is dead, and there's not much you can say or do.  But in the middle of this is some lessons-learned and you get the impression that it's not really over.