Posted on 09/26/2008 1:17:08 AM PDT by HAL9000
German commandos storm KLM airliner arresting two suspected 'terrorists' - local media. More soon.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Hmmm, interesting.
Police stormed aircraft apparently after terror suspect
Berlin (dpa) - The police after a terrorist suspect a plane at the airport Cologne-Bonn Gestürmte. That confirmed the Landeskriminalamt North Rhine-Westphalia the "image" - in newspaper and television station n-tv. The "Bild"-Zeitung reported around 6:55 clock have a Special Operations Command a machine of the airline KLM Amsterdam Gestürmte.
German commandos have stormed a KLM airliner at Cologne airport, arresting two suspected terrorists, television reports said on Friday.
A 23-year-old Somali and a 24-year-old German citizen of Somali origin who wanted to carry out “holy war” were arrested, news channel N24 said.
Police found suicide notes in their apartments, it said.
The plane they were on was bound for Amsterdam.
http://news.sbs.com.au/worldnewsaustralia/commandos_storm_jet_in_terror_probe_558542
Read the post right below yours. Sounds eerily similar to 9/11, although perhaps on a smaller scale.
SEC stormed aircraft - two terrorists arrested
Blow against terror in Germany: This morning around 6:55 clock stormed the airport Cologne-Bonn Special Operations Command a machine of the airline KLM to Amsterdam.
The policemen were in the machine finds two men: a Somali (23) and a German born in Somalia (24).
Both wanted to appear in the "holy war" (Djihad) die. In her apartment police found the appropriate farewell letters.
The two men were under surveillance for months. LKA a spokesman confirmed on request from BILD.de the arrests.
Meanwhile fahndet the police continue with high after the German terrorists Breining Eric (21). He settled in a training camp in Afghanistan, is on his way to Germany.
PING!
Amish!
Good that this was stopped.
Thanks for ping.
This one looks like it was intended for close to where I live (in Eurotopia).
Terror suspect: Police storm planeTwo suspects at Cologne-Bonn airport arrested
The police on Friday a plane at the airport Cologne-Bonn Gestürmte - because of terrorist suspicion. Two young men were arrested. This has the Landeskriminalamt North Rhine-Westphalia (LKA) confirmed. The policemen were reportedly the first media in a machine of the Dutch airline KLM flight to Amsterdam with two men established: a Somali (23) and a German born in Somalia (24). Both wanted to appear in the "holy war" (jihad) die, said the spokesman of the LKA. In her apartment, the police found appropriate farewell letters. The two men were under surveillance for months.
At policeman shot
Previously in Cologne was an incident with potentially terrorist-known: Three young men who on Wednesday two policemen in an ambush had lured and shelled, because of the suspicion of attempted murder has been remanded in custody. This was confirmed by the spokesman for the Cologne prosecutor, Tino Seesko, on Friday. To media reports, after which the Islamist indeed a background could have said the authority did not.
The "Cologne Rundschau" that should be around three juvenile offenders with immigrant backgrounds between the ages of 15, 16 and 17 years of acting in the interrogation of several "Holy War" - "Jihad" - said. According Westdeutschem Rundfunk (WDR), the suspects have said they wanted to kill the two officers, a number of Islamist terror must be set.
Officials lured into ambush
The young men had during the night Wednesday to a 26-year-old policewoman and her 38 years old colleagues in an emergency by ambush lured. The two officials were on a relief operation had been called. When she is on the floor of a person approached, it suddenly jumped to - also stormed two other young men from the adjacent forest and threatened the police with firearms. The officials made two warning from what the perpetrators fled and shot several times. Only later turned out that it is fright firearms act.
Ping.
During the public search for two other Islamist terror suspects, the BKA has already received numerous indications. The safety authority had on Thursday the search for the Germans Eric Breining (21) and the Lebanese-born Al Houssain Malla (23) with the help of the public initiated. The two are possibly from the Pakistani-Afghan border region to Europe or even returned to Germany.From the Saarland Breining was born a few months ago in an Internet video of a suicide attack threatened.
Still no AP or AFP or Reuters coverage?
AP’s got something, but no new info.
Reuters also has a report, but again, no additional info.
AFP has a brief report. Nothing new.
This report from yesterday is about Eric Breininger and Houssain al Malla, apparently not aboard the KLM aircraft, but believed to have entered Germany after recording videos proclaiming their intention to suicide attack.
On Tues or Weds, the major airport in Pakistan was shut down for security reasons. The next day, Britain shut down all flights to and from Pakistan. Yesterday, all flights at British major airports were grounded for several hours(first, supposedly on orders from air traffic control because of overcrowded skies, later explained as a a "computer glitch"). In other words, these guys are out there, headed for some European country, and it is vital to catch them before they get there.
German police detain terror suspects on plane - 2nd Update
Posted : Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:24:16 GMT
Author : DPA
Berlin - German police arrested two terrorist suspects on board a Dutch airliner Friday, minutes before it was due to take off from Cologne-Bonn airport for Amsterdam. A police spokesman said a Somali man aged 23 and a 24-year-old German born in Mogadishu were escorted off the KLM Flight 1804 at 6:55 am (0455 GMT).
The two men had been under observation for several months. A search of their apartment had turned up farewell letters in which they declared their readiness to die in a jihad or holy war, the police spokesman said.
In Amsterdam, KLM spokeswoman Ellen van Ginkel confirmed the arrests, but denied that police had stormed the aircraft.
“After the doors had closed and the plane was ready for departure, the German border police re-opened the doors and arrested two men,” Van Ginkel said.
“Then, all passengers were let out of the plane and all luggage was also taken out and checked outside,” Van Ginkel added.
The plane ultimately left 70 minutes behind schedule and landed safely in Amsterdam at 9:17 am.
The arrests came a day after police appealed to the public to help track down two missing Islamists, one of them a German convert, who were suspected of membership in a terrorist group called the Islamic Jihad Union (IJU), often described as a successor to al-Qaeda.
Police said they were pursuing about 20 leads related to Eric Breininger, a 21-year-old German, and Houssain al-Malla, a 23-year-old Lebanese, were last seen in the zone along the Pakistan-Afghan border. Police suspect they might have secretly returned to Germany.
Police said Breininger, who is from Saarland state in the west of the country, had recorded an internet video in which he spoke of carrying out a suicide attack and supported jihad or holy war.
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