Posted on 09/09/2007 7:38:06 AM PDT by Ghayyour
GERMAN police questioning “Fritz the Taliban”, a 28-year-old Munich-born terror suspect, revealed yesterday that they are hunting up to 49 Islamist plotters over a conspiracy to use truck bombs to blow up air-ports, bars and discos.
The arrest of Fritz Gelowicz as one of the plot’s alleged ringleaders has shocked Germans. It emerged this weekend that he was raised in a middle-class family in largely Roman Catholic Bavaria before converting to Islam at the age of 18 and changing his name to Abdullah following the break-up of his parents’ marriage.
“Fritzi” was remembered by neighbours as a “little blond boy” from a “popular family”. His mother was a doctor and his father an engineer.
Gelowicz was drawn to a radical Islamic “multicultural” centre in Neu-Ulm, where he is believed to have met Mohammed Atta, one of the 9/11 hijackers. He attended a Taliban training camp on Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan in March 2006, returning to Germany to study engineering. The net finally started closing when he was seen spying on a US military base in Hanau, east of Frankfurt, last New Year’s Eve. The police raided his house just days before his wedding to a German-born Turk, although he was not charged at the time.
Yesterday Germany’s federal police revealed that the network of suspects across the globe had widened substantially, while officers were still focusing on a “hard core” of seven to 10 individuals. Two of these are believed to be under surveillance in Germany, while others are on the run in Germany and the Middle East.
Scotland Yard and MI5 were informed of the plot, which was aimed at targets frequented by US citizens, in July because of close parallels with British terror cases.
August Hanning, Germany’s deputy interior minister, said that they had been liaising with London after “big parallels” had emerged with a failed plot to blow up British aircraft last summer. Hydrogen peroxide was said to have been the intended explosive in both cases.
Security sources believe the plotters were given a “clear task” while attending terrorist training camps in Pakistan.
The suspects have been linked to the Islamic Jihad Union, an extremist group that broke off from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, an Al-Qaeda ally, in 2002.
The German investigation was boosted by an American intelligence intercept last year that detected suspicious communications between Pakistan and Stuttgart. “This group did not act alone. There is a network,” said Hanning.
I read that the three aren’t talking but that the whole thing was bugged. I wonder who’s being rolled up and how?
Just like Johnny Jihad from Marin County. I wonder if Fritz's father is a fag also.
A generation ago it was The Red Army, young Europeans who kidnapped and blew things up because it seemed romantic.
Now it’s Islam. Same thing. Movements always attract unstable types who shed their unhappy personality and adopt a robatic personna subject to the will of masters of their adopted movement.
Same old, same old.
It does seem that all these western “converts” come from hosed up families.
I guess in the 70’s they would have gone the Baader Meinhoff route.
Who knows. Maybe he ate too many Doner kebabs with the extra ingredient in the sauce!
It does seem that all these western “converts” come from hosed up families.
Actually what they ALL have in common is attending a Madrassa of some kind.
Madrassas the ring main of the Islamic daisy chain.
Good point.
“One shot, one cleric.”
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