Posted on 09/11/2007 1:24:53 AM PDT by Aussie Dasher
A US air base in western Germany was the target of a bomb threat last night, sparking a large operation by police and American forces to secure the site, police revealed today.
Police in the western state of Rhineland-Palatinate said the base had received a call from a man who spoke in German with a Russian or Turkish accent and threatened to attack the air base in Spangdahlem with bombs. He had at least four accomplices.
"After the telephone threat, the American forces informed the police, who moved swiftly with US security forces to protect the air base," the police said
The threat came a day before the sixth anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the United States and roughly a week after German authorities say they prevented major bomb attacks on US sites in Germany by a domestic cell of Islamist militants.
Police said the caller claimed to have a team ready to carry out the attack.
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Diversion?
No...whats left of the 50 man cell.
Ping
And so it begins...hoaxes galore for the next 12 hours.
my thoughts exactly.
It may be a sign that it is all that they can do right now... Terror is terror... even if it is mental.
LLS
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