3 explosions in Dortmund, Germany.
A big champions league football match which was due to be played there has been postponed.

One of the players has been slightly injured by glass after one of the explosions happened close to the team bus.

A suspect detained in connection with the bombing of the Borussia Dortmund team bus came to Germany from Iraq, where he supposedly led an Islamic State unit responsible for numerous abductions and killings, the Federal Prosecutor's Office said.

The Federal Prosecutor's Office (GBA) said in a statement on Thursday it has issued an arrest warrant against a 26-year-old Iraqi national, identified as Abdul Beset A., on suspicion of having links to Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).

The suspect was earlier detained in connection with the bombing of a bus carrying the Borussia Dortmund football team to a Champions League game against AS Monaco. The GBA's statement noted investigators have so far produced "no evidence" of the suspect's direct involvement in the attack.

However, it is strongly suspected that Abdul Beset A. joined IS in late 2014 in Iraq. Later, he led a unit of 10 militants whose task was "to prepare and execute abductions, extortions and killings."

In March 2015, he traveled to Turkey and then arrived in Germany at the beginning of 2016, the GBA said. The suspect maintained contact with IS even from inside Germany, it added.

Tuesday's bus blast involved three explosives hidden in a hedge and remotely triggered as the vehicle left Borussia Dortmund's hotel and headed for the stadium 10km (6 miles) away. One of the team's players was injured as the blast shattered the windows at the back of the bus.

The investigation stated that the team had been deliberately targeted by pipe bombs packed with sharp metal contents. The Prosecutor's Office later classified the incident as a terrorist attack.

Comment: German prosecutors say there is no evidence that an Iraqi man detained after bomb blasts hit a top soccer team's bus was involved in the attack.

However, they said in a statement that "so far the investigation has turned up no evidence that the suspect participated in the attack" in Dortmund on April 11.

They have asked a court to keep him in investigative detention.

See also: Bomb scare: Triple blasts near Borussia Dortmund football team bus - Update

Update: It still isn't clear who was responsible, as there have been multiple claims for responsibility:

Three identical letters found at the scene of the bomb blasts claimed the attack was carried out "in the name of Allah," but have been treated with skepticism by both investigating police and prosecutors.

The wording of the three identical letters immediately raised suspicions as they do not fit the MO of extremist terrorist groups such as Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).

Specific threats to sportspeople and other celebrities as well as demands for the closure of Ramstein Air Base and the withdrawal of German planes from Syria stood out as atypical to federal prosecutors investigating the case.

The wording and target choice have prompted speculation that the letters were decoys intended to deflect attention away from the real perpetrators.

"It is indeed doubtful," Frauke Koehler, a spokeswoman for the federal public prosecutor's office, said when asked to comment on the authenticity of the letters as cited by Sky News. She would not make any further comment on the matter as the investigation is ongoing.
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The German newspaper, Tagesspiegel, claims to have received an anonymous email from a far-right group also claiming responsibility for Tuesday's attack which left Spanish defender Marc Bartra with a broken wrist and led to one police officer being treated for shock.

The emailed note allegedly claimed there would be another attack on Saturday, April 22 with the threat being investigated by German federal prosecutors.

The message reportedly criticized the German government's stance on multiculturalism, references Adolf Hitler, and claims a "Cologne squad" is poised to spill "colorful blood." This may be a specific reference to a pro-tolerance rally scheduled to take place in Cologne next week, reports DW.

Investigators also received a claim of responsibility from a far-left group but have dismissed it as inauthentic.

Further intrigue has emerged in the case, as the detonators used in the attack were allegedly military-grade, reports Reuters citing a source close to the investigation.

"The technically perfect construction of the explosive devices in Dortmund, which could have attacked any vehicle on any other road in Germany, is really worrying," Bavaria's Minister of the Interior, Joachim Herrmann, told local German news outlet Welt am Sonntag.

And get this: the explosives used may have been German military.

The explosives used in the attack on the Borussia Dortmund team bus may have come from the German military, local media report, citing sources close to the investigation.

Around 100 investigators from the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) are looking into the incident, one of whom spoke to the Welt am Sonntag newspaper on Saturday.

"The explosives in the pipe bombs, which were filled with metal pins, might have come from the stocks of the Bundeswehr [German armed forces], but that's still being checked," the newspaper quoted the anonymous investigator as saying.

The source added that specialized training was needed to use the military detonators, which are hard to acquire.
http://www.rt.com/news/384584-dortmund-suspect-isis-commander/

Sick sick sick.