Posted on 09/08/2007 10:04:31 AM PDT by John Jorsett
BERLIN (Reuters) - Three suspected Islamist militants who were planning to attack American targets in Germany had orders to act by September 15 and knew police were hot on their trail before their arrest, a magazine said on Saturday.
The plan was foiled on Tuesday when police arrested two German converts to Islam and a Turk in the biggest German police investigation in the last 30 years.
According to surveillance details published in Der Spiegel magazine, the men had been given a two-week deadline for their planned strikes in a late August call from northern Pakistan that was monitored by German police.
In another detail to emerge on Saturday, a spokeswoman for the Federal Prosecutors Office in Karlsruhe confirmed a Focus magazine report that the suspects had obtained three small used vans in France and brought them to Germany.
The suspected militants, identified by German media as Fritz Gelowicz, Daniel Martin Schneider and Adem Yilmaz, had material to make bombs with power equal to 550 kilograms of TNT and were believed to be planning simultaneous car bombs across Germany.
Authorities were not immediately available to comment on the reported identities of the suspects.
Officials have said all three had trained in militant camps in Pakistan before forming a domestic cell of the "Islamic Jihad Union" -- a little known al Qaeda-affiliated Sunni Muslim group with roots in Uzbekistan.
According to Der Spiegel, two of the militants mentioned "a disco filled with American sluts" along with airports, nightclubs or a U.S. military base as targets during a July 20 conversation that was bugged by police.
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Gee, what could be the significance of that September 15 deadline? Let me think ... what could it be? ... Oh yes: General Petreus is going to be testifying about the results of his anti-insurgency campaign to congress next week. Could there be any clearer evidence that the terrorists think their best chance of prevailing is to play to the US media and politicians?
Betcha these dopes are sitting stone face to try to protect some other plots on similar deadlines.
I guess this ends the speculation that these guys were homegrown AQ wannabees.
More errors from stupid media. German converts? “German” is not a religion... but then neither is islam.
More accurate would be to say former commie atheists who decided to become involved in a violent pursuit through the network of another violent ideology called islam supported by our petrodollars.
The Turk we already know about. Turk = Muslim
No doubt, straight from the DNC...
This is a more than appropriate time to break out the waterboards.
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