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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PC blindness is a very difficult disease to eradicate but that is another that needs to go.
Hydrogen peroxide (industrial grade, not the 3% stuff you have in your medicine chest) and acetone can be catalysed—I think with sulfuric acid—to produce acetone peroxide (actually a class of compounds the smaller ones of which are highly explosive), an very volatile explosive refered to in jihadi literature as “mother of Satan”.
The ‘liquid bomb’ plot that makes us all put our toiletries in tiny bottles in plastic bags was based on ‘mother of Satan’, and the kid who blew himself up outside the OU football game was using it.
Yes, well done Fritz and Co.
I wonder if this was connected to the massive short-sell positions taken by some European back in late August.
THIS IS SARCASM. DO NOT CONFUSE THIS WITH A STUDIED ANALYSIS OF THE ISSUE. SARCASM BEGINS HERE.
You see, this so-called plot was planned by Cheney and his minions in order to prop up the Republicans. With the departure and problems facing Sens. Larry Craig and Ted Stevens, the Republicans need to instill FEAR into Americans by creating another terror event, in the same way that they planned and created 9/11. The fingerprints of the Christian right are all over this kind of propogandistic news. You’ll notice that the so-called terrorists were even the usual dupes of the Republicans - Moslem males. Expect MORE of this kind of propoganda leading up to the 2008 elections.
THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME EXPRESS SARCASM.
Good explanation.
Thank God this plot was nipped in the bud. However these Quaeda freaks usually plan to do things in multiples of threes, fours, or fives.
What other cities , airports, and bases are in imminent danger?
>>>Rhetorical question: why has that cauldron of Islamist evil been labeled “America’s ally”? <<<
Because Bush thinks it’s in Switzerland.
That was sarcasm? I thought you were quoting Hillary! My bad.
oh, Muslims?? your kidding?? /sarcasm
Is anyone else sick of it being called an “occupation”? Western troops remain in Iraq at the pleasure of a democratically-elected government. Liberals must believe that suicide bombings and beheadings are the only legitimate ways that Iraqis can express themselves (as opposed to elections).
Of course they support elections when it means that the elected party are the beheaders and suicide bombers (see: Hamas).
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