“Massive” terror attack thwarted in Germany Two are German converts to Islam
Three terror suspects held in Germany planned to carry out “imminent” and “massive” bombs attacks on a U.S. air base and Frankfurt’s international airport.
The suspects, two Germans aged 22 and 29 and a 29-year-old Turk, received terrorist training in Pakistan and had close ties to al Qaeda, according to Jorg Ziercke, president of Germany’s Federal Criminal Investigation Office.
Ziercke said the group was united by a “hatred against American citizens” as it planned attacks against Frankfurt airport, a popular international travel hub, and Ramstein air base, a major transit point for the U.S. military into the Middle East and Central Asia.
Allahpundit predicts that this is related to the Copenhagen arrests.
The arrests came not today but yesterday, the same day as the Copenhagen arrests, which is another reason to think they’re connected. The cops in both countries probably coordinated the timing to minimize the risk that one group would get spooked and run. HA readers hopefully will recall that warnings about a plot in Germany have been bubbling up since May, first in a report about a threat to the U.S.’s Patch Barracks base (possibly by the Iraqi group Ansar al-Sunna), then, five days later, in a story from the Blotter about U.S. air marshals “flooding” German flights for fear of an attack like the one planned for Britain last year, and then again in July in a Newsweek article about the growing threat from AQ. Quote
September 5, 2007 - 11:39 AM on September 5th, 2007
Today’s Terror Plot: Germany (Ramstein AFB)
Another apparently imminent attack foiled in Europe – this time it’s Germany though officials are currently denying the target was Ramstein AFB specifically.
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