Germany: 'Massive' attacks foiled
BERLIN, Germany (CNN) -- German police arrested three suspected Islamic militants who were planning "massive" and "imminent" attacks on American targets in Germany, authorities said Wednesday.
"The main motivation of the group in Germany is hatred against American citizens and therefore they had as main targets the American military installations," Jorg Ziercke, president of Germany's Federal Criminal Investigation Office, said.
"This could also of course have affected German citizens in restaurants and other places."
Authorities would not elaborate on whether Ramstein Air Base -- the U.S. military's main installation in Germany-- or the major international hub of Frankfurt Airport were among the targets, as reported by German media.
"There are, of course, strong grounds to believe that it could also have been directed at American military installations ... it also could also have been Frankfurt airport, we can't really rule that out," German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said.
The suspects, two German converts to Islam aged 22 and 29 and a 29-year-old Turk, appeared before a federal magistrate on Wednesday. They were picked up Tuesday after a series of raids in 30 places across Germany, Ziercke said.
They received terrorist training in Pakistan and had close ties to al Qaeda, he noted.
Read more here:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe...sts/index.html
and whatever happeneded to these "terrrorists" that dubya publicized so heavily?
dubya was just grand-standing with fake "trust Repugs on national security" feint?
Trying fraudulently to scare the out of the sheeple before the 2006 election?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13491653/
and whatever happeneded to these "terrrorists" that dubya publicized so heavily?
dubya was just grand-standing with fake "trust Repugs on national security" feint?
Trying fraudulently to scare the out of the sheeple before the 2006 election?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13491653/
Only Boutons sees a thread in which a terrorist plot is ruined and then posts that.
Agreed.
Only Boutons sees a thread in which a terrorist plot is ruined and then posts that.
Tired and boring act.
Just keeping the pressure on dubya and his unending bull lies, for anybody who's NOT tired of dubya's lies. Miami 7? "Where Are They Now?"
Just waiting for dubya to announce how the Germans couldn't have done this without dubya raping FISA and all US privacy laws. These Germans are furriners, how the can they do anything right?
btw, the Germans and European community have much stricter privacy laws than USA, but somehow they can still find terrorists.
Only Boutons sees a thread in which a terrorist plot is ruined and then posts that.
he's been drinking Haterade.
you dubya suckers still don't know rotten after 6 years of adoring fellatio?
Congrats to the Germans. Now let's see if they've done enough homework to make the charges stick, unlike dubya's DoJ and its farce around Jose Padilla, which was nothing but dubya's Exec scaring people and show-boating bull .
The final Padilla charges and conviction were very far removed from the initial headlies.
would have been sufficient for the purposes of this thread
I find it difficult to believe all of these terror plots have been foiled by law enforement agencies...surely a military solution is the best and only solution to terrorism.
Nothing difficult to believe. Cooperation between countries
on their intelligence and more than likely the intelligence
community reading people INTERNATIONAL mail had a
lot to do with it. More than likely some liberal judge will
throw the whole case out because we did read their mail.
And boutons will be celebrating because of "dubya's Exec scaring people and show-boating bull . " and praising
the German Judge who throws the case out.
The fact that the Germans had these guys under surveillance for 6 months prior to this arrest suggests a lawful, intelligent investigation (huh, imagine that!)...leaving no reason for a "liberal" judge to throw any of the evidence, if that's the case. Really, Xray, is it totally off the wall for the rest of us civil liberty lovers to expect that our government meet the barest minimum standards of legal accountability (FISA courts) for wiretapping? Will you still be all for the Executive branch having absolute, we-have-the-last-word, no-questions-asked authority to wiretap any citizen it wants when a (gasp!) Dimm-o-crap like Hillary Clinton is President?
wire·tap
–noun
1. an act or instance of tapping telephone or telegraph wires for evidence or other information.
–verb (used with object)
2. to obtain (information, evidence, etc.) by tapping telephone or telegraph wires: to wiretap conversations.
3. to listen in on by means of a wiretap: to wiretap a telephone; to wiretap a conversation.
–verb (used without object)
4. to tap telephone or telegraph wires for evidence, information, etc.
–adjective
5. pertaining to or obtained by wiretap.
[Origin: 1950–55; back formation from wiretapper]
wire·tap·per
–noun
1. a person who taps wires to learn the nature of messages passing over them.
2. a swindler who professes to have betting tips or other information from tapped telephone wires.
[Origin: 1890–95; wire + tapper]
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