http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1891316/posts?page=147#147
NOTE: The folllowing text is a quote:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/018145.php
September 15, 2007
German jihadist bomb suspect worked at airport
Feel safer? Ain’t political correctness grand?
“Bomb suspect worked at airport,” from News24.com (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist):
Berlin - One of three men arrested in Germany on suspicion of plotting major bomb attacks worked at Frankfurt airport, one of the alleged targets, according to the weekly Der Spiegel.
The report to be published on Monday said Adem Y, a Turk, had been employed from 1997 to 2002 by German railways, working in particular in the department handling freight at Frankfurt airport station.
The three arrested on September 5, who also included two Germans converted to Islam, were suspected of planning “massive” attacks on facilities used by Americans, among them Frankfurt airport and the US military airbase at Ramstein.
Federal prosecutor Monika Harms said they were members of the Islamic Jihad Union, a little-known group from Uzbekistan with links to al-Qaeda.
The Sunni Muslim group said the aim of the planned attacks had been to put pressure on Germany to withdraw its soldiers stationed at the Termez base in southern Uzbekistan, according to the German interior ministry.
More diplomacy by intimidation. In both its violent and its peaceful forms, it’s all the rage these days.
Posted by Robert at September 15, 2007 3:00 PM
147 posted on 09/15/2007 2:01:58 PM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/018147.php
September 15, 2007
“German authorities report lack of Muslim cooperation in antiterrorism fight”
“Tiny Minority of Extremists Update from TradingMarkets.com (thanks to Twostellas).”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Berlin - The lack of cooperation of Muslim communities with the security authorities remains a weak point of the fight against terrorism in Germany. Six years after the attacks on 11 September 2001, according to a survey of the news agency ddp in all federal laender, the authorities can hardly count on active support from Muslim communities. In 2007, they have received practically no specific information on “radicalized fellow believers, on recruiters of terrorist organizations, or on planned attacks.”
Why is that? Whenever someone says something like this in the U.S., Muslim spokesmen charge that they are helping, they are working against terror, but they don’t get any coverage in the press for such efforts. But this is the word of German authorities, who have every interest in playing up the extent of Muslim cooperation.
Yet still, this question, Why not?, as crucial as it is, will not even be asked, or if asked, will be answered by charges of offensive, hyper-suspicious behavior on the part of German authorities.
In response to the key question of whether they had active help this year in the form of tips from Muslim communities, the answer was almost entirely a clear no.”
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Germans Warned Of Terrorist Attack
September 16, 2007
The risk of a terrorist attack in Germany, possibly even a nuclear strike, is high despite the recent arrest of suspected Islamist militants, Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told a newspaper.
"The terrorist threat has not diminished," Schaeuble told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, according to extracts published in advance. "I am no less worried since the arrests. We know more precisely that we are in the crosshairs of Islamist terrorism ... the terrorists want to carry out more attacks," he said.
Schaeuble even warned of the danger of a nuclear attack, although it was not clear if he was referring to Germany specifically. "Many experts are convinced this kind of attack is a question of when, not if," he told the paper.
Last week, Germany said its security forces had foiled a plan by Islamist militants to carry out massive bomb attacks. On September 4 police arrested three men suspected of belonging to an Islamist terrorist group and who, officials said, were planning strikes on Frankfurt international airport and a major US military base.
Schaeuble wants to introduce new measures to combat the threat from international terrorism, but opposition is high in Germany where curtailing civil liberties is very sensitive more than 60 years after the fall of Nazism.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Germans-warned-of-terrorist-attack/2007/09/16/1189881313394.html