Posted on 09/05/2007 12:05:48 AM PDT by james500
Three men have been arrested for planning attacks on Frankfurt's international airport and the U.S. military base in Ramstein, the German Defense Minister said Wednesday.
"There was an imminent threat," Franz Josef Jung told Germany's ARD broadcaster. He declined to elaborate.
Two of the suspects had German citizenship while the third was Pakistani, Germany's Sudwestrundfunk public broadcaster said.
German federal prosecutors said they had arrested three suspected members of "an Islamic motivated terrorist organization." It was not immediately clear whether the three were suspected of having links to al Qaeda.
Sudwestrundfunk said the men were arrested Tuesday evening and were close to carrying out the attacks. German and U.S. officials have warned of the possibility of a terrorist attack, and security measures have been raised, they said.
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“3 held over German ‘airport plots’”
BERLIN, Germany (CNN) —
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “At U.S. European Command in Stuttgart, Capt. Jeff Gradec said German authorities had alerted them of a possible terrorist threat to American installations, but not specifically Ramstein.
Gradec said EUCOM had no plans to raise its force protection levels in light of the plots.”
One thing I have recently noticed when cruising DU to compare the takes on stories between here and there is this. When commenting on the same stories dealing with foiled plots anywhere in the world they will often put things like the phrase immenent threat in quotation marks, but for a completely different reason. It is done to show contempt and to mock the idea that the U.S. or any other country is really threatened. The comments, as you might expect, lean toward any threat as having been manufactured by government(s) to keep the publics attention of important issues like universal health care and other progressive habits. LOL! Just the usual proof that they do not get it, and never will.
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September 5, 2007 - 8:05 AM
“Germany arrests 3 for alleged plot against airport”
By Erik Kirschbaum
BERLIN (Reuters) -
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Another German network reported that shots had been fired when police raided a house in a town in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
SEPT. 11 ANNIVERSARY
“There are clear indications that at a minimum Ramstein and the Frankfurt airport were possible targets and that they would not have waited long to strike,” leading conservative politician Wolfgang Bosbach told German television station N24.
He said the plot may have been timed to coincide with the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.”
The West is committing suicide by allowing Muslim “immigrants” into our countries.
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Associated Press
“Germany: 3 Terror Suspects Arrested”
By DAVID McHUGH 09.05.07, 4:14 AM ET
BERLIN -
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “German and U.S. officials have warned of the possibility of a terrorist attack, and security measures have been increased. Navy Capt. Jeff Gradeck, spokesman for the U.S. military’s European Command in Stuttgart, said German authorities had contacted them concerning the alleged plot, but had no further information.
“We extend our gratitude to Germany for their efforts in protecting us,” Gradeck said.
The group had been under observation by authorities for many months and all three men are considered radical Islamists with contacts to terror cells abroad, Der Spiegel reported online.
Authorities decided to move in on the group after members were observed moving a stock of chemicals easily obtainable in Germany, but which can be used for making a bomb, from a storehouse to another, Der Spiegel said.”
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“German Police Arrest Three Islamist Terror Suspects (Update3)”
By Brian Parkin
Sept. 5 (Bloomberg) —
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “`Home-Grown Problem’
``This is a home-grown problem, it’s no longer jihadists trained in Osama bin Laden’s camps,’’ said Karl-Heinz Kamp, security policy coordinator at the Berlin-based Konrad Adenauer Foundation, which has links to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union.
``The good news is that our preventive mechanisms have become very efficient — this plot was still in its very early stages,’’ Kamp said in an interview.
Police secured explosives during the arrests, SWR said. The leader is a German convert to Islam living in the southwestern city of Ulm, the radio station said.
The arrests may be connected to arrests by Danish police of eight ``militant Islamists’’ yesterday, the HR public radio station said, without saying where it got the information.”
Last Updated: September 5, 2007 04:48 EDT
Damnit Germany, this should teach you that you never should have participated in the invasion and occupation of Iraq!! Hope you’ve all learned your lesson..... /s
“The arrests may be connected to arrests by Danish police of eight ‘militant Islamists’ yesterday, the HR public radio station said, without saying where it got the information.”
Dog, this is what I was saying. And . . .
“. . . this plot was still in its very early stages . . .”
Maybe, but other reports suggest there was timing for 11 September.
Cindy, thanks very much for your updates!
Updating the details regarding the damage the bombs would have caused.
Updating the details (for clarification) of the nationality of the suspects.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6979295.stm
ast Updated: Wednesday, 5 September 2007, 09:10 GMT 10:10 UK
“Three held in German terror raids”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Wolfgang Bosbach, an MP with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats, said the suspects had been under observation for a long time.
“We know without any doubt that they were planning attacks that would have had considerable consequences,” he told Germany’s N24 television, adding that the three had acquired chemicals for the plot.
He said the plot may have been timed to coincide with the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the US.
‘Major targets’
Reports said that two of the suspects were German while the third was Pakistani.
Government sources told the AFP news agency that the three had links to Pakistan and had been experimenting with explosives and trying to build car bombs.”
You’re welcome Cap Huff.
Gee, I sure hope they had FISA warrants. < /sarcasm> Things that give the New York Times vapors are done as a matter of course by all the intelligence agencies of every other country in the world, including Sweden, France and Canada.
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OPINION: The liberal lame-stream media is quite capable of getting the ‘vapors” at the drop of pin.
Off Topic, but Interesting.
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2763946,00.html
Terrorism | 05.09.2007
“Red Army Faction: A Chronology of Terror”
We had better raise the threat level in the US and frisk more old men and women at airports. /s
Thank you for your service for our country.
Thanks.
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“Germany Foils `Massive’ Bomb Attack, Prosecutor Says (Update1)”
By Brian Parkin and Claudia Rach
Sept. 5 (Bloomberg) —
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The suspects, two Germans and a Turkish national, are alleged members of a local cell of the Islamist terrorist organization Jihad Union, Harms told reporters today in the southern city of Karlsruhe.
``Today is a good day for German security,’’ Harms said.
The alleged terrorists planned attacks on sites frequented by U.S. citizens among others, including discos, bars and transport facilities, Harms said. The peroxide-based liquid explosives were equivalent to 550 kilograms of TNT, greater explosive power than in the London bombings of July 2005, Joerg Ziercke, head of the Federal Criminal Office, told the same press conference.
The arrest of the alleged bombers took place yesterday after police raids on 41 sites across the country. Those arrested represented the ``core’’ of a group that includes further suspects, Ziercke said.”
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