<p>Islamic State claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a deadly attack in Vienna, in a statement issued through its Amaq News Agency along with a picture and video purporting to show the gunman.</p>.<p>The picture, released 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 being shot dead by police.</p>.<p>In the photo, Albany carries a pistol, a machine gun and a machete and is wearing a ring stamped with a sentence saying "Mohammed is the messenger of Allah".</p>.<p>Amaq posted a video of Albany minutes later in which he pled allegiance to Islamic State leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Quraishi. He was speaking Arabic in the video.</p>.<p>Albany would normally be used to refer to someone with Albanian origins. The statement did not identify the man by any other name.</p>.<p>Austrian officials have identified the attacker as Kujtim Fejzulai, a dual citizen 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 Islamic State.</p>.<p>The gunman, who was killed by police minutes after opening fire on crowded bars, had been released from jail less than a year ago.</p>
<p>Islamic State claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a deadly attack in Vienna, in a statement issued through its Amaq News Agency along with a picture and video purporting to show the gunman.</p>.<p>The picture, released 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 being shot dead by police.</p>.<p>In the photo, Albany carries a pistol, a machine gun and a machete and is wearing a ring stamped with a sentence saying "Mohammed is the messenger of Allah".</p>.<p>Amaq posted a video of Albany minutes later in which he pled allegiance to Islamic State leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Quraishi. He was speaking Arabic in the video.</p>.<p>Albany would normally be used to refer to someone with Albanian origins. The statement did not identify the man by any other name.</p>.<p>Austrian officials have identified the attacker as Kujtim Fejzulai, a dual citizen 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 Islamic State.</p>.<p>The gunman, who was killed by police minutes after opening fire on crowded bars, had been released from jail less than a year ago.</p>