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Islamist Terrorists Planned Massive Attacks in Germany(MORE DEADLY THAN LONDON OR MADRID)
spiegel.de ^ | September 05, 2007 | By Matthias Gebauer and Yassin Musharbash in Berlin

Posted on 09/05/2007 7:38:27 AM PDT by Dog

The three suspected terrorists seized Tuesday were planning huge bomb attacks on targets in Germany. The bombs they were planning to make would have had more explosive power than those used in the Madrid and London terror attacks. The scenarios which the highest representatives of the German security forces were describing on Wednesday morning were horrific: "Massive bomb attacks," simultaneous attacks using several car bombs and huge numbers of people killed right in the middle of Germany. Only a bold raid foiled the plans of the Islamist terrorists, according to statements made in Karlsruhe by German Federal Prosecutor Monika Harms and Jörg Ziercke, the head of Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA). According to Harms, the three men arrested Tuesday afternoon (more...) belong to a German cell of the terror group "Islamic Jihad Union" (IJU). They are accused of preparing terror attacks against US facilities in Germany. It would have been an inferno. The explosive material the men had would have sufficed to make bombs with a higher explosive power that those used in the attacks in Madrid and London, according to Ziercke. The three men had planned on mixing the explosive material so as to produce a bomb with the power of 550 kilograms (1,200 pounds) of TNT. The federal prosecutor's office ordered all three men arrested Tuesday afternoon. The police forces struck in a spontaneous raid because the men, who were already under observation, intended to begin preparing chemicals to make a bomb and to leave their hideout. Fearing that the men might disappear, BKA investigators and Germany's elite GSG-9 anti-terrorist unit arrested the whole group in Medebach-Oberschledorn in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Later, the BKA conducted searches, in which hundreds of officers took part, of another 40 buildings in several German states.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Extended News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: dupe; frankfurt; germany; islam; muhammadsminions; ramstein; waronislamism; wot
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And the war goes on...
1 posted on 09/05/2007 7:38:35 AM PDT by Dog
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To: Dog
Wait, what is this??

Molems doing terroristic murder of unsuspecting random people going about their daily business...

Who ever heard of such a thing? This is so unusual...

We need to notify CAIR of this immediately!

And we need to distribute more feet washy thingies and pray rooms!! ASAP

2 posted on 09/05/2007 7:42:56 AM PDT by picard (Liberal: ability to supplant reality with multiple truths which are all in opposition to each other)
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To: Dog
Sounds like possibly Denmark, Germany, and possibly (according to FNC's Catherine Herridge earlier this morning) one additional country to be named later. Simultaneous attacks, the AQ hallmark.

Was this the supposed "gift" meant for the 9-11 anniversary?

3 posted on 09/05/2007 7:43:39 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: Dog

Good work on the part of the Germans. However how long will it take before we hear the defense team scream Gestapo tactics were employed?


4 posted on 09/05/2007 7:43:47 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft
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To: picard; Dog

HA! Too true. I’m sure if we express more self-guilt and self-condemnation, it’ll all go away...


5 posted on 09/05/2007 7:44:44 AM PDT by Molly Pitcher (We are Americans...the sons and daughters of liberty...*.from FReeper the Real fifi*))
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To: Bringbackthedraft

My thoughts exactly -

I hope their “civil rights” were not violated.
There needs to be an investigation into whether their privacy was violated with warrantless wiretaps.


6 posted on 09/05/2007 7:45:42 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Molly Pitcher

It all once again goes back to that vipers nest Pakistan.


7 posted on 09/05/2007 7:46:36 AM PDT by Dog
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To: Bringbackthedraft

The ensuing political debate in Germany will be about withdrawal from Afghanistan to placate the madmen.


8 posted on 09/05/2007 7:46:57 AM PDT by SolidWood
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To: Dog

Plot has been traced to Pakistan, not the Gov’t of Pakistan but the islamist terror population.


9 posted on 09/05/2007 7:47:21 AM PDT by RightWhale (It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
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To: mewzilla; nuconvert
one additional country to be named later.

I'll speculate that country is Poland.

10 posted on 09/05/2007 7:48:06 AM PDT by Dog
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To: Dog

Don’t suppose their phones were tapped, eh ? Quite possibly, we have a case of trampled privacy rights, not to mention other civil rights violations. The horror...


11 posted on 09/05/2007 7:49:03 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Go Hawks !)
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To: Dog

Serves Germany right for attacking Iraq in their illegal war of occupation. /sarc


12 posted on 09/05/2007 7:52:13 AM PDT by avacado
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

H2O2 it can be used processing of textile, how can it be used as bomb blast?


13 posted on 09/05/2007 7:52:16 AM PDT by Ghayyour
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To: RightWhale
What Pakistani government?

The AQ controlled ISI part? Or the part of the Pakistani government that surrenders everytime a jihadist screams BOO at them.

The vipers nest that is the breeding ground for these thugs needs a good cleaning out.

What the heck is the world waiting for.....thousands more dead.

I'll make you a bet ...within a couple of hours we see a Pakistani government spokesman claim there are no terror training camps inside Pakistan.

14 posted on 09/05/2007 7:54:01 AM PDT by Dog
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To: Ghayyour

If ya have to ask ya don’t need to know.


15 posted on 09/05/2007 7:55:44 AM PDT by Unknowing (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.)
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To: RightWhale
I apologize if I came on a little strong.....Pakistan is a sore subject with me.
16 posted on 09/05/2007 7:56:55 AM PDT by Dog
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To: Dog
From the BBC report of the story:

The suspects, aged 22, 28 and 29, were alleged to be members of the German cell of a group she named as Islamic Jihad Union.

Two of the men were German nationals who had converted to Islam, while the third was a Turkish man.

The next generation of terrorist; a home grown convert to Islam who blends with the background.

17 posted on 09/05/2007 7:57:22 AM PDT by marshmallow
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To: Dog

The Pakistan Gov’t has said once more that massive military actions are being conducted in the previously ungoverned tribal regions. They are acutely aware of the threat to the country from these challengers.


18 posted on 09/05/2007 7:57:58 AM PDT by RightWhale (It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
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To: Ghayyour

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_peroxide

I learned a little about concentrated H202 while studing “browning” (pre-’bluing’)


19 posted on 09/05/2007 7:59:45 AM PDT by Unassuaged (I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
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To: Dog

The Pakistan Gov’t is aware that if they totally lose control their big neighbor will be forced to take control. That possibility they pay attention to.


20 posted on 09/05/2007 8:00:04 AM PDT by RightWhale (It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
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