Isis claim attack for berlin truck attack that kill 12 people

BERLIN — The German capital was on high alert Tuesday with one or more attackers still at large in a deadly truck assault on a Christmas market, an act claimed by the Islamic State that struck at the heart of Europe’ s Christian traditions.
Chancellor Angela Merkel decried Monday ’ s assault — in which a truck carrying a payload of steel plowed into festive stalls and fairgoers in Berlin , leaving 12 dead and dozens injured — as a presumed “ terror attack , ” even as German police scrambled to find the culprit . The only suspect so far — a Pakistani asylum seeker taken into custody shortly after the bloodshed — was released by police Tuesday because of insufficient evidence .
Late Tuesday, the Islamic State , through the affiliated Amaq news agency, claimed that the attacker was a “ soldier” responding to its call to target nations fighting the group in Iraq and Syria . The Islamic State has wielded the term before to describe lone wolves inspired by its rhetoric , and its level of involvement, if any , in coordinating the attack remained unclear .