Posted on 04/29/2011 1:17:27 PM PDT by tcrlaf
German police on Friday detained three alleged members of al-Qaida, federal prosecutors said, as a report said they had been plotting attacks in Germany.
The prosecutor's office in the southwestern city of Karlsruhe said the trio had been taken into custody early Friday and would appear before a judge Saturday, when a news conference has been scheduled.
It declined to provide further details.
The daily Bild reported that the three were Moroccans living in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and were caught with "large amounts of explosives".
Citing security sources, the newspaper said they were suspected of plotting attacks in Germany. One possibility was that they were targeting the Eurovision Song Contest in Düsseldorf on May 14, the paper reported.
They came to the attention of the Federal Crime Office during surveillance of mobile phone and computer communications.
Bild identified them as Abdeladim K., Jamil S. and Ahmed Sh.
The Moroccan government said Friday that al-Qaida was suspected in connection with a bomb attack Thursday that killed 16 in Marrakesh.
German authorities hiked security measures in November after US authorities warned of an al-Qaida plot to carry out "Mumbai-style" attacks in Britain, France and Germany.
US authorities handed over to Germany last week the source of the tip, alleged Islamic militant Ahmed Wali Siddiqui, who had been held for nine months in Afghanistan.
According to German media, Siddiqui met with al-Qaida's third in command, Sheikh Yunis al-Mauretani, who initiated him into a plot to carry out attacks in Europe similar to those in the Indian city of Mumbai in 2008 in which 10 gunmen killed 166 people and injured more than 300.
Wait a minute!!!
I thought that WE were the "Great Satan" and all attacks are supposed to be directed at the US!!!
We are REALLY slipping the on the "Target of Islam" list.
No, you don’t understand Islam.
It is a “religion” based on exploitation and murder. The way muzzies have fun is blowing things up and dismembering people alive.
Hey, when there are no Western targets, they do it to eachother wholesale. I daresay they kill more of eachother than anybody else.
Fine Deutschlander names
Yeah, that’s another thing Obama is responsible that we (USA) are no longer number 1!
Germans need to inspect their souls and repent for their racist, colonialist, and capitalist aggression against Morocco.
Oh yeah, and they have to kill all the Jews too......wait a minute, they already tried that and the Muslims still attack them.
Hmmmmmm.......
.....I’m so confused.
;-)
“The daily Bild reported “
Isn’t that germanys new york post ?
Amishdeutsch.
Nah, yer both wrong.
They’re obviously Lutherans who’re still sore about that whole Dietrich Bonhoeffer fiasco.
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