http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2390127.ece
September 5, 2007
“German police foil huge car bomb terror attack”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Several terrorist plots have been nipped in the bud in Germany since September 11, 2001, but this one has shocked Germans more than any other as it exposed the existence of jihadists as a home-grown terrorist potential.
The features of 28-year-old Fritz G were blanked out in his arrest photographs yesterday but there was no doubt about it: he was white and, for his neighbours in Ulm, quite unmistakeably “our Fritz.”
Like his accomplice, 22-year-old Daniel S. from the Saarland, he was a Muslim convert.
“Converts tend to be more radical and fanatical than those who have been Muslims since they were in the cradle,” said Hans Joachim Giessmann, a terrorism expert at the Hamburg Institute for Peace Research.
”They are driven either by politics or the fervour of their new faith rather than any cultural tradition.”
All three - the third man has been identified as the Turk Adem Y, 29 - met in Pakistan where investigators believe they received explosives training at a Taleban-linked camp. The three are believed to be members of the Islamic Jihad Union, an Uzbek-based group with close links to al-Qaeda.”
lol - is that ‘our Fritz’ in the pic I posted up thread?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=reverts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=converts