Posted on 09/05/2007 12:05:48 AM PDT by james500
Three men have been arrested for planning attacks on Frankfurt's international airport and the U.S. military base in Ramstein, the German Defense Minister said Wednesday.
"There was an imminent threat," Franz Josef Jung told Germany's ARD broadcaster. He declined to elaborate.
Two of the suspects had German citizenship while the third was Pakistani, Germany's Sudwestrundfunk public broadcaster said.
German federal prosecutors said they had arrested three suspected members of "an Islamic motivated terrorist organization." It was not immediately clear whether the three were suspected of having links to al Qaeda.
Sudwestrundfunk said the men were arrested Tuesday evening and were close to carrying out the attacks. German and U.S. officials have warned of the possibility of a terrorist attack, and security measures have been raised, they said.
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all the best scoop happens overnight
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Dirt and jerks seems to crawl from under the rocks at night more so than in daylight.
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According to information obtained by SPIEGEL ONLINE, the three men were Daniel S. from the state of Saarland and Fritz G. from Neu-Ulm in Bavaria, both of whom are German converts to Islam, as well as Adem Y., who is believed to be from Turkey. The three, who had apparently founded a terrorist cell, have been under intensive investigation for several months. All three men were considered radical Islamists and had contact to Islamist groups in Germany and Pakistan.
Terrific. A co-worker left for Germany yesterday. Hope she hears of this and it changes her mind as to what we’re really up against. That’s the airport where she was landing.
She’s clueless when it comes to World Politics and the WOT. This probably won’t wake her up, either. And there are millions of others just like her out there. *SIGH
(I was stationed at Ramstein, back in the 80’s.)
Thank you jdm.
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“Three Islamist Terror Suspects Arrested in Germany [Ramstein AFB]”
Speigelonline ^ | September 05, 2007 | Matthias Gebauer
Posted on 09/05/2007 5:51:41 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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My goodness! The Germans told the truth about who they arrested. How refreshing!
To bad the US and the rest will not do the same.
Not to mention that it is incompatible with democracy and allows no freedom for its women who are nothing but slaves. So by allowing for mass immigration of muslims into democratic countries we are bringing about civil war in the future, no ifs ands or buts, when the numbers are strong enough in their favor it will happen....period.
If nothing else learn from history or take time to learn the religion unless you are nothing but a propagandist for the muslims. Then you just look like a fool.
Off Topic (Separate bomb case)...
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=d159b007-70e8-4761-8818-720efdf1939b
“Lebanon arrests fourth suspect in German bomb case”
Reuters
Published: Wednesday, September 05, 2007
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “BEIRUT — The Lebanese authorities have arrested a fourth suspect in connection with a plan to bomb two trains in Germany and have filed preliminary charges against five Lebanese and a Syrian, judicial sources said on Saturday.
Four of the Lebanese are in Lebanese custody, while one Lebanese and the Syrian are in Germany, they added.
They face charges of attempted mass murder in passenger trains in Germany and attempted arson, they said.
The sources named the fourth suspect as Khalil al-Bubbu but gave no details of his arrest. The others are Jihad Hamad, Khaled Kheireddin al-Hajj, Ayman Hawa, Youssef al-Hajj and Fadi al-Saleh, the Syrian. The last two are in Germany.
The latest legal step falls short of the formal indictment process, which comes at a later stage, and the investigations could turn up other suspects, the sources said.”
I was referring to Frankfurt airport
Something big is in the works worldwide. I have this gut feeling that we are seeing security probing by some terrorist organization, and that it is all leading up to a major assault on U.S. military personnel and dependents on and near U.S. bases worldwide. When I checked my ping list this morning, I found an update on the case against two Islamic students who were arrested on bomb charges in Goose Creek, South Carolina recently. The case in Goose Creek was just a few miles from the Naval Weapons Station and Goose Creek is home to many USN personnel. They were heading away from the NWS at the time of arrest, but their automotive GPS (which a family member said they have) may well show they drove through it. That could explain the terrorism charges the feds brought and the transfer of the defendants to the USN Consolidated Brig in Hanahan SC (my home town, BTW). The housing and shopping areas of the base are not secure (as the weapons and training areas are), so it is a soft military target.
When I saw this article on my ping list, I also saw this one: Back-to-School Bomb Threats: At Least 13 U.S. Universities Targeted. One of these bomb threats had just happened at Clemson when I was there for the game Monday evening. Clemson, like just about every other major university in the U.S., has three active ROTC programs on campus (USN/USMC, USAF, and USA). Another soft U.S. military target. These calls may be pranks, or they may either be probes of our security response or cries of wolf to make people less likely to respond properly due to threat fatigue. They may also be a ruse to deflect security officers from the location of a real potential attack to the location of a red herring threat.
Finally, I wake up this morning and read of a busted terror plot in Germany near Ramstein Air Force Base. This, also, is a place where there are many U.S. military personnel and dependents, often in soft target areas.
Now I would really like to know if the people just arrested in Denmark were near any U.S. military-related targets or if they had plans to travel to any such targets, say, on September 11, 2007?
I expect the terror threat level to go to Red any time now. Something big is planned for September 11, 2007. I would guess it will be a coordinated series of bombings (suicide, car, roadside, etc.) in the military personnel and dependent areas of various U.S. military bases worldwide.
Any military personnel or families out there better be on your toes next Tuesday.
Days when you could check Drudge and know if anything hot was breaking are sadly past.
irrelevance
Even slow to catch on here.
Must be that cable news (I don't have it) reporters are still getting their morning blow-dries and haven't had time to catch up on the news.
Massive amounts of explosives...imminent....targeting American interests...
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