Posted on 08/29/2009 12:52:39 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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.
The prosecutor's office identified the man only as "Kadir T.," and said he is a German of Turkish origin.
He is suspected of acquiring a video camera and night-vision equipment for the Islamic Jihad Union group, prosecutors said. The items were allegedly shipped to Waziristan in Pakistan, prosecutors said.
Four men trained by the Islamic Jihad Union are on trial in Germany for allegedly plotting attacks against U.S installations in Germany. They are known as the "Sauerland Group."
Three of the men, two Germans and a Turk, were arrested in September 2007. They were mixing a massive amount of explosive materials that could have resulted in a strong blast, bigger than the attacks in Madrid, Spain, in 2004 and London, England, in 2005, authorities said.
Fritz Gelowicz, Martin Schneider, and Adem Yilmaz are charged with membership in foreign and domestic terrorist groups, preparation of explosives, plotting to murder and plotting to commit a crime using explosives, the court said.
Schneider is also accused of attempted murder, the court said.
Don't Miss Four on trial over German terror plot The fourth person, identified in German media reports as Attila Selek, is a German citizen of Turkish descent.
U.S. interests in Germany were among the targets of the group's plot, Michael Chertoff, who was the U.S. homeland security secretary, said at the time.
Gelowicz and Schneider are Germans who converted to Islam. Gelowicz was a leading member of a radical Islamist center in Ulm in southern Germany, and was well known to German authorities, officials said.
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Previously...
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SAUERLAND CELL TRIAL Terror Suspects Will Make Full Confessions
SPIEGEL.de ^ | June 9, 2009 | n/a
Posted on June 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.”
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stepping back in time...
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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
countdown until ... Obama, the unAmerican Pres_ _ent,
gives the terrorist lawyers, money, citizenship,
and a ‘little help’ for their mutual needs.
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