http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1890027/posts?page=1405#1405
Germans Warned Of Terrorist Attack
September 16, 2007
The risk of a terrorist attack in Germany, possibly even a nuclear strike, is high despite the recent arrest of suspected Islamist militants, Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told a newspaper.
“The terrorist threat has not diminished,” Schaeuble told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, according to extracts published in advance. “I am no less worried since the arrests. We know more precisely that we are in the crosshairs of Islamist terrorism ... the terrorists want to carry out more attacks,” he said.
Schaeuble even warned of the danger of a nuclear attack, although it was not clear if he was referring to Germany specifically. “Many experts are convinced this kind of attack is a question of when, not if,” he told the paper.
Last week, Germany said its security forces had foiled a plan by Islamist militants to carry out massive bomb attacks. On September 4 police arrested three men suspected of belonging to an Islamist terrorist group and who, officials said, were planning strikes on Frankfurt international airport and a major US military base.
Schaeuble wants to introduce new measures to combat the threat from international terrorism, but opposition is high in Germany where curtailing civil liberties is very sensitive more than 60 years after the fall of Nazism.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Germans-warned-of-terrorist-attack/2007/09/16/1189881313394.html
1,405 posted on 09/15/2007 2:16:13 PM PDT by Oorang (Tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
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“NSA Style Eavesdropping Thwarts 9/11 Anniversary Terror Attack”
American Thinker ^ | 9-6-07 | Marc Sheppard
Posted on 09/07/2007 4:55:15 AM PDT by Renfield
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FOILED BOMB PLOT
Terror Suspect Worked at Frankfurt Airport
Adem Yilmaz, one of the three men arrested in Germany two weeks ago on suspicion of plotting bomb attacks, spent time working at Frankfurt Airport, one of the possible targets, SPIEGEL has learned.
One of the three terrorism suspects (more...) arrested two weeks ago in Germany worked at Frankfurt Airport, SPIEGEL has learned.
Turkish citizen Adem Yilmaz from the town of Langen in western Germany was employed in the security division of rail operator Deutsche Bahn from 1997 until 2002.(snip)
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,506190,00.html
Southern German Towns Become Hub of Jihadism
Roland Ströbele | 17 Sep 2007
World Politics Review Exclusive
The arrest earlier this month of three Islamic radicals suspected of planning attacks on American military installations in Germany has again called attention to the southern German towns of Neu-Ulm and Ulm. The alleged leader of the trio, Fritz G., comes from Ulm. As Roland Ströbele of the local Neu-Ulmer Zeitung reports, the twin cities on opposite banks of the Danube have in recent years become a bustling hub of Jihadist activism.
NEU-ULM/ULM, Germany — And once again the trail leads to Neu-Ulm. One of the three presumed members of an Islamic terror group arrested earlier this month in Germany comes from Ulm. The 28-year-old Fritz G. is supposed even to have been the ringleader of the group, which is accused of planning bomb attacks on the Frankfurt Airport and the U.S. military base in Ramstein.
If the accusations should turn out to be true, then they provide renewed evidence that plans for terror attacks have been hatched in Ulm and Neu-Ulm and that it is from here that the terrorists have set out to realize their plans.
Fritz G. has been long known to Bavarian police authorities. The 28-year-old German converted to Islam several years ago and was a frequent visitor to the “Multi-Kultur-Haus” in Neu-Ulm, an Islamic cultural center that was shut down by the authorities in January 2006 on account of Islamist activism. According to investigators, radical “preachers of hate” frequented the Multi-Kultur-Haus, recruiting “holy warriors” for Jihad or collecting funds for the latter. (snip)
http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/article.aspx?id=1142
1,520 posted on 09/17/2007 7:30:18 AM PDT by Velveeta