Posted on 06/12/2009 12:34:04 AM PDT by Cindy
SNIPPET: "There was an unexpected twist in Germany's high-profile terror trial when the four men accused of planning massive car bombs on US targets in Germany took a time out for several hours. When they returned, their lawyers said they wanted to make full confessions."
SNIPPET: "Adem Yilmaz was the first to show a change of attitude, asking the court for permission to talk things over with his three co-defendants. The judge was happy to oblige."
SNIPPET: "Yilmaz told the court on Tuesday that he wanted to meet with the other alleged members of the so-called "Sauerland Cell" -- Fritz Gelowicz, Daniel Schneider and Atilla Selek -- without their lawyers present."
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
http://www.isria.com/pages/28_January_2010_72.php
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/02/german-jihadists-misunderstood-islam-planned-mass-murder.html
(DPA)
“German jihadists misunderstood Islam, planned mass murder”
SNIPPET: “Will the Islamophobia never end? “Prosecutor: German Islamists planned mass murder,” from DPA, February 3 (thanks to Twostellas):
Dusseldorf - The chief prosecutor in the German trial of four alleged Islamists said on Wednesday that they had planned ‘mass murder’ on a scale unknown in Germany.
State prosecutor Volker Brinkmann said the members of the so- called Sauerland Group were driven by an overwhelming hatred of US soldiers and by a desire to carry out mass murder, and would not have shied away from killing innocent women and children.
The group, consisting of Daniel Schneider, Fritz Gelowicz, Adem Yilmaz and Attila Selek, is accused of planning attacks on US military bases in 2007.
The chief prosecutor emphatically warned against the ‘cancer of Islamist terrorism,’ as he set out his case to the Dusseldorf court. He argued that this ‘cancer’ would stop at nothing and chose its victims at random. Brinkmann said the four defendants had shown no real remorse during the nine-month trial, and said they did not confess out of regret.”
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Photo:
http://www.dw-world.de/image/0,,4554979_4,00.jpg
Photo caption:
“German Fritz Gelowicz led the “Sauerland group””
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5205013,00.html
TERRORISM | 02.02.2010
“Prosecutors prepare closing arguments in major Geman terror trial”
SNIPPET: “The trial of four men who planned attacks on US military targets in Germany is drawing to an end. The “Sauerland Cell,” uncovered and arrested in 2007, was Germany’s first example of home-grown Islamist terrorism.
The Geman-born leader of the so-called Sauerland Cell, Fritz Gelowicz, showed Germany that Islamist terror was a problem in its own back yard.
The 30-year-old Islam convert and his three accomplices, German Daniel Schneider, Turkish-German Attila Selek, and Turk Adem Yilmaz were captured in the west German region of Sauerland in 2007, with vast stockpiles of hydrogen peroxide, suitable for making car bombs and other explosives.
They said they planned to attack US military targets based in Germany, and that events in the so-called “War on Terror” had motivated them to take up arms.”
Previously...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2327283/posts
“Germany Arrests Suspect in Plot to Attack U.S. Targets”
CNN ^ | 8/28/09
Posted on August 29, 2009 12:52:39 AM PDT by nickcarraway
SNIPPET: “German federal prosecutors said Friday they have arrested a man suspected of helping a terrorist cell that allegedly plotted attacks against U.S. troops in Germany.
The U.S. military’s Ramstein Air Base is believed to have been one of the targets for plotters.”
Previously...
Quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2327283/posts?page=5#5
To: All
stepping back in time...
Note: The following post is a quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2234974/posts?page=7#7
To: All
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025909.php
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“German cell planned September 11 anniversary attacks”
SNIPPET: “Giving evidence in court a week into the trial, the chief police investigator Ralph K. said the three Germans and a Turk were overheard by police discussing September 11, 2007 as a possible date for an attack.
They were also issued with emailed orders “to finish the job” by leaders of the Islamic Jihadic Union in Pakistan, an extremist group linked to Al-Qaeda, shortly before police captured three of them on September 4, 2007, he said.
And just one day before their arrest, when police caught them with enough equipment to make explosives 100 times more powerful than those used in the 2005 London bombings, the leaders told them to act within three weeks, he said.
Two of the suspects, Fritz Gelowicz and Daniel Schneider, are German converts to Islam, while Attila Selek — arrested later in Turkey — is a German of Turkish origin. The fourth is Adem Yilmaz, a Turkish national.”
7 posted on May 1, 2009 12:58:56 AM PDT by Cindy
5 posted on August 29, 2009 2:04:25 AM PDT by Cindy
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Update ping.
Previously...
Quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2234974/posts
Muslim converts accused of holy war bomb plots
Times Online (U.K.) ^ | April 22, 2009 | Roger Boyes
Posted on April 21, 2009 10:56:51 PM PDT by Schnucki
Two Muslim converts and two Turks go on trial in a bomb-proof courtroom in Düsseldorf today accused of plotting to blow up German civilians and US soldiers.
“The world will burn!” boasted an intercepted e-mail sent between the accused, who are alleged to have wanted to wage an Islamic holy war in the heart of Europe.
Three of the men — Fritz Gelowicz, 29, Daniel Schneider, 23 and the Turkish national Adem Yilmaz, 30 — are accused of attending a training camp on the Afghan-Pakistani frontier run by an Uzbek-based terror organisation known as the Islamic Jihad Union.
Intelligence services say that it has links with al-Qaeda. Using detonators — supplied, the state prosecutor claims, by Attila Selek, 24, a German citizen of Turkish origin — the gang prepared bombs with the explosive force of 410kg (904lb) of TNT, to be set off in and around the US Ramstein air base and other targets. The bombers in London on July 7, 2005, had 4kg of explosive.
It is alleged that the gang wanted the attacks to influence a parliamentary debate extending the mandate of the German Army in Afghanistan in the autumn of 2007.
The men were caught in an elaborate police sting operation in September that year. At the high point of the undercover surveillance, about 600 policemen were involved, fed with information from the German intelligence service and the CIA.
When the alleged plotters rented a remote holiday home and allegedly started to gather material for the bombing campaign the police encircled the region, disguising themselves as villagers, foresters and petrol station attendants.
As soon as the men left the cottage the police would change the vats of hydrogen peroxide for a diluted solution. They were following the example of Scotland Yard detectives, who while secretly monitoring terrorists
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
SNIPPET: “After receiving a tip from an American intelligence source...” -Thank you “American intelligence source.” -Cindy
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Quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2234974/posts?page=3#3
To: All; Oorang; Jet Jaguar
NOTE: Photos included at this link:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,620452,00.html
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http://interested-participant.blogspot.com/2009/04/germany-big-terrorism-trial-begins.html
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Following Entry Posted 4/23/2009 12:03:00 AM
Germany: Big Terrorism Trial Begins
SNIPPET: “(Düsseldorf, Germany) The trial of four alleged terrorists, alleged ringleader Fritz Gelowicz, Adem Yilmaz, Daniel Schneider and Atilla Selek, began yesterday with each facing charges of conspiracy to commit murder, plotting terrorist attacks and membership in a terrorist organization, the Islamic Jihad Union (IJU).
The home-grown terrorist cell reportedly wanted Germany to withdraw troops from Afghanistan — and to kill Americans.
Under tight security, four men aged between 23 and 30 took to the dock on Wednesday in Düsseldorf to answer accusations of plotting a spate of bombings in discos, restaurants, airports, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office and US army installations.
The alleged plot, which was in its final stages when it was thwarted by police in September 2007, would have been the most destructive in Germany’s postwar history.
A fifth suspect, believed to be a central figure, is being sought by police.
After receiving a tip from an American intelligence source, the three Germans and a Turk were arrested in a raid which found them ready to strike. Police discovered hydrogen peroxide-based explosives with more potency than used in the 2004 Madrid bombings or the 2005 London attack. Targets for their terror attacks reportedly were the American airbase in Ramstein and cities of Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Cologne and Munich.”
3 posted on April 24, 2009 3:56:01 AM PDT by Cindy
Thanks for the update.
You’re welcome Jet Jaguar.
Thanks much for the update ping Cindy. Good news.
You’re welcome Oorang.
UPDATE:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3857905,00.html
(AP)
“4 convicted over plot against US sites in Germany”
Published: 03.04.10, 13:32 / Israel News
SNIPPET: “Two German converts to Islam and two Turkish men were convicted Thursday over a foiled 2007 plot to attack US targets in Germany and given prison sentences ranging up to 12 years.”
stepping back in time...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2001771/posts
“Germany searching for 2 alleged terrorists”
Stars and Stripes ^ | April 15, 2008 | Nancy Montgomery,
Posted on April 15, 2008 4:14:44 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar
HEIDELBERG, Germany —
SNIPPET: “Breininger last summer was living with Schneider in Nuenkirchen, and went to Egypt shortly before Schneider and the others were arrested.
According to several German news reports, Breininger and al-Malla met in Egypt and traveled to Pakistan through Iran.
Breininger converted to Islam a little more than year ago, according to the articles, and was recruited into the IJU by Schneider. He told his family he wanted to be called “Abdul Rafar,” and told his grandmother he no longer considered himself German, then broke off contact with his family and his pregnant girlfriend, according to Focus.”
Blog:
www.jihadica.com/preview-autobiography-of-a-german-jihadist/
“Preview: Autobiography of a German Jihadist”
Thomas Hegghammer
May 5th, 2010 | Afghanistan, Converts, Germany, Pakistan
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www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,693216,00.html
5/05/2010
“Eric Breininger’s Death
The Memoirs of a German Jihadist”
By Yassin Musharbash
blog:
www.jihadica.com/guest-post-the-story-of-eric-breininger/
“Guest Post: The Story of Eric Breininger”
Thomas Hegghammer
May 11th, 2010 | Afghanistan, Germany, Travel Routes, training camps
SNIPPET: “[Editor’s note: This post was written by Christopher Radler and Behnam Said, who are intelligence analysts based in Hamburg, Germany. For links to the original document, see the comments to the preview post.]
On 3 May a message announcing the death of Eric Breininger (b. 3 August 1987) and three of his fellow combatants was posted on several German jihadist websites. Breininger, who travelled to the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan in the winter 2007, was one of the most infamous German jihadists. From Waziristan Breininger, a.k.a. “Abdul Ghaffar al-Almani”, sent several videotaped messages to the jihadist community in Germany, asking them to join the jihad or at least to support it financially. Since September 2008 the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) searched for Breininger, based on his assumed affiliation with a foreign terrorist organization.
A day after the announcement of his death, Breininger’s alleged autobiography, entitled Mein Weg nach Jannah (My Way to Paradise) was released on jihadi websites. The 108-page document mainly deals with Breiningers path into violent islamist militancy. It is not clear however, if Breininger wrote the document himself. In the messages he delivered from Waziristan, he spoke a very simple and often grammatically incorrect German. By contrast, the language of the published book is far more elaborate and correct. On the other hand, the content and details in the book argue for the authenticity of the document. Interestingly, the spelling of names differs throughout the book, which could indicate a collaborative effort. So we can assume that Breininger either 1) wrote it down by himself and had some help from his friends, or 2) told his story to some of his fellow jihadists and they wrote it down, as Spiegel journalist Yassin Musharbash suggested. Overall, however, we favour the first assumption.
After stating the reasons for writing down his autobiography, that is to say to disprove the lies spread by the media and to guide Muslims and non-Muslims to the path of Allah, he describes his conversion.”
The following “tweet” on Twitter.com is a quote:
twitter.com/#!/FlorianFlade/status/195480876698705920
Florian Flade
@FlorianFlade
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