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By Reuters 
7h ago
Cairo – The Islamic State claimed responsibility for a deadly attack in Vienna on Tuesday, in a statement released through its Amaq news agency along with a photo and video purporting to show the attacker.
The image, posted on Telegram, showed a bearded man identified as “Abu Dagnah Al-Albany.” The accompanying statement said he had attacked crowds in central Vienna on Monday with a pistol and machine gun before police shot him dead.
In the photo, Albany carries a pistol, a machine gun and a machete and wears a ring stamped with a phrase that reads “Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.”
Amaq posted a video from Albany minutes later in which he pledged allegiance to Islamic State leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Quraishi. He spoke Arabic in the video.
Albany would normally be used to refer to someone of Albanian origin. The statement did not identify the man by any other name.
Austrian authorities have identified the attacker as Kujtim Fejzulai, a dual national of Austria and North Macedonia, who had been sentenced to 22 months in jail in April 2019 for attempting to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State.
The gunman, who was killed by police minutes after opening fire in crowded bars, had been released from jail less than a year ago.
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