Don't forget, they were "lost" for a week already before we got notice.
German link in bottle-bomb plot
From correspondents in Berlin
August 12, 2006
The suspects accused of plotting to blow up aircraft flying from Britain to the US had links with Germany, the German deputy interior minister August Hanning told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper in an interview to be published on Sunday.
"Apparently there were some links between the suspected terrorists and Germany, we are checking those links," the former head of Germany's secret service told the newspaper.
"However, Germany was not a target of these planned attacks," he added.
Germany's Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said yesterday there was "no firm indication of a connection with Germany" but that they could not be ruled out and enquiries were underway.
Germany's secret service refused to comment.
One of the 24 suspects arrested in Britain was in contact with the wife of suspected Hamburg cell member Said Bahaji, according to the German magazine Focus.
Bahaji is the subject of an international arrest warrant over his suspected links with the Hamburg cell, the rear-base used by the perpetrators of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the US.
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