Posted on 04/16/2002 2:33:38 AM PDT by kattracks
Berlin, Apr 16, 2002 (EFE via COMTEX) -- German security services on Tuesday arrested an alleged Al Qaeda terrorist suspected of involvement in last week's bomb attack on a historic Tunisian synagogue in which ten German tourists were among the 16 people killed.
The Federal Criminal Investigation Department (BKA) said they had taken into custody in the central city of Duisberg a person they believe had been in contact with the driver of the truck loaded with natural gas canisters that crashed into the synagogue.
Tunisian authorities had said they believed the blast on the island of Djerba was an accident, but German officials maintained all along they had "clear indications" that it was a suicide terrorist attack.
The newsweekly Stern claimed that just prior to the explosion, one of the people on the delivery truck spoke to a person in Germany linked to Saudi renegade Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda international terror network.
gc/bl/BJCopyright (c) 2002. Agencia EFE S.A.
Were the Germans that were killed Jewish? Were they in the synagogue?
If there was some kind of Jewish package holiday to Tunisia that the bomber knew about then that would explain the arrests.
Photos from Germany!
An unidentified Palestinian demonstrator carries his daughter who wears a mock belt of explosives as they protest Israel's military offensive in Palestinian territories in Berlin Germany, Saturday, April 13, 2002. (AP Photo/Jan Bauer)
Demonstrators carry a Palestinian boy draped in a Palestinian flag, representing a symbolic funeral, near the US embassy in Berlin Germany, Monday, April 1, 2002. The demonstrators took part in a final rally of an Easter March for Peace, demanding an end of the fighting between Palestinians and Israelis. The US embassy is in the background, third from right.(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
A building lasts thousands of years, war, natural disasters, etc. And, then some idiot destroys it.
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