Thanks to Godzilla for pointing to the Powerline blog link.
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http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2007/09/018410.php
September 8, 2007
“Connect the Dots”
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http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-29414820070908?feedType=RSS&rpc=602&pageNumber=1
“German suspects had deadline for attacks-report”
Sat Sep 8, 2007 10:31PM IST
By Erik Kirschbaum
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “BERLIN (Reuters) - Three suspected Islamist militants who were planning to attack American targets in Germany had orders to act by Sept. 15 and knew police were hot on their trail before their arrest, a magazine said on Saturday.
The plan was foiled on Tuesday when police arrested two German converts to Islam and a Turk in the biggest German police investigation in the last 30 years.
According to surveillance details published in Der Spiegel magazine, the men had been given a two-week deadline for their planned strikes in a late August call from northern Pakistan that was monitored by German police.
In another detail to emerge on Saturday, a spokeswoman for the Federal Prosecutors Office in Karlsruhe confirmed a Focus magazine report that the suspects had obtained three small used vans in France and brought them to Germany.
The suspected militants, identified by German media as Fritz Gelowicz, Daniel Martin Schneider and Adem Yilmaz, had material to make bombs with power equal to 550 kilograms of TNT and were believed to be planning simultaneous car bombs across Germany.”
blog:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=26966_German_Terror_Plot-_Connected_to_Syria&only
“German Terror Plot: Connected to Syria?”
Sat, Sep 8, 2007 at 11:34:07 am PST
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“Germany Debates Security Measures”
By JUDY DEMPSEY and KATRIN BENNHOLD
Published: September 8, 2007
BERLIN, Sept. 7 —
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Mr. Beckstein said the nationality of some of the other suspects was still unclear, and two are only known by their aliases, making it impossible to know their origins or whereabouts. He declined to identify by name any of the suspects still at large but said that two other suspects were known to have spent time in Lebanon and Syria and that the detonators found in Tuesday’s raids had come from Syria.
Investigators have evidence that four of them helped prepare the bomb plot in various ways, including renting cars, helping with travel arrangements and financing, Mr. Beckstein said. The evidence against three others is less conclusive and would not allow for an arrest at this stage he said.
Mr. Beckstein said the current case was proof that Germany’s Turkish community was not immune from radicalization.”