The ISIS splinter group was reportedly offered the surface-to-air rocket launcher on the black market by an individual fighting in the army in the Donetsk Basin.
The jihadists who planned attacks on cathedrals in Austria and Germany this past Christmas were offered a rocket launcher by an unnamed army official in Ukraine, according to the Austrian news outlet, Exxpress.
The site reported on Wednesday that the German Federal Criminal Police Office had obtained testimony from one of the suspects affiliated with the Islamic State terror cell in the Afghan province of Khorasan (ISPK) that revealed the group had been approached by “a contact who is supposed to fight in the army in the Donetsk Basin” regarding the purchase of a U.S.-manufactured FIM-92 Stinger missile.
The federal police office in Wiesbaden reportedly gathered intelligence through a statement made by a leading terror suspect, understood to be of Turkmen origin, to an undercover federal agent.