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HAMBURG, Germany - Police closed streets around a military hospital Tuesday after U.S. authorities warned that Islamic militants planned suicide car bomb attacks against the facility. The intelligence warning from the United States named two alleged suicide attackers from Ansar al-Islam, a group linked to al-Qaida that planned to carry out the attack on the Bundeswehr hospital, said state Interior Minister Dirk Nockemann. The alleged suicide attackers traveled to Hamburg in early December, said Heino Vahldiek, head of the Hamburg branch of federal security agency. Police closed streets about 2:30 p.m. around the hospital in the suburb of Wandsbek. U.S....

An alleged accomplice of an Iraqi suspected of channeling holy-war fighters to his country for suicide attacks against U.S. forces has been arrested in the Netherlands, German authorities said Monday. The 32-year-old Iraqi, whose name was not released, had been at large since the other man's arrest in Munich last Tuesday. He was arrested by Dutch security officials at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport when he attempted to board a plane to Turkey, Munich prosecutor Christian Schmidt-Sommerfeld said. The German warrant for his arrest cites charges of forming to a criminal organization, he said. The first suspect was arrested on charges of...