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According to Der Spiegel, "Deutsche Waren werden verbrannt und vergiftet" ["German Goods will be burned and poisoned"], an organization calling itself the "German Division of Al Qaeda" sent a threatening letter to the German embassy in Tunisia at the beginning of the year.

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Der Spiegel has a further article on the progress of the investigation today, ANSCHLAG AUF DJERBA: Ermittler versuchen das Terrornetz zu entwirren [ATTACK ON DJERBA: Investigators try to disentangle Terror Network]. Apparently, the German convert to Islam whom the authorities were holding a couple of days ago and then released is still under suspicion. His name is "Michael Christian G.", and he is an ethnic German from the town of Gleiwitz, which is now in Poland. He had a suspicious phone conversation with the bomber an hour before the attack on the synagogue.