Posted on 08/25/2006 10:33:52 AM PDT by wolf78
BERLIN (Reuters) - A man held in Lebanon in connection with a failed attack on German trains has confessed to planting a suitcase bomb and investigations suggest he might have links to al Qaeda, the Lebanese government said on Friday.
"When he saw the pictures, he admitted that he planted the bomb," Lebanon's acting Interior Minister Ahmad Fatfat told Reuters television.
"There is nothing clear now, but in his computer, we found something that can be related to al Qaeda, some contacts. He denied any contact till now with al Qaeda, but maybe he was working without knowing (it) himself under the umbrella of al Qaeda," he added.
Fatfat was referring to Jihad Hamad, a 20-year-old Lebanese man who turned himself in to authorities in the Lebanese city of Tripoli on Thursday.
Hamad and a 21-year-old Lebanese man named Youssef Mohamad E.H., who was arrested in Germany at the weekend, were caught on security videos dragging suitcases on to trains in Cologne last month.
Suitcases like those in the footage were found packed with propane gas tanks and crude detonating devices on trains in Dortmund and Koblenz. The explosives failed to detonate.
Authorities in Germany and Lebanon on Friday detained two more suspects in connection with the bomb plot.
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Interestingly enough, the number two guy in this episode....was arrested in Lebanon, and still held by the cops there. Germany has no agreement with them but are hoping that an arrangement will be made.
But also....if you haven't figured this out...yet again....more characters who are tied back to a Wahhabi trained-religious character in the local mosque. Like the 24 dudes arrested in London last month....like Richard Reid the shoe bomber....like the 19 bombers on 9-11. Perhaps a fool suggestion...but if you wanted to end the war awful fast...maybe we ought to pick the right target. These Wahhabi characters are the trigger to every single terrorist action so far. Why would we not begin to realize that?
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