Just paving the way for the next 9/11 cover story.
Fact is should NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN, since we are fighting them over there, we have spent billions on securing the "homeland," and it was a FALSE-FLAG INSIDE JOB, anyway.
And gee whiz, EVERYBODY COVERS THIS STORY!!
Oh, HOW WE ARE FED SHIT as "NEWS!" It is ALL SCRIPTED, folks!!!
Every single story, every single issue! SCRIPTS FULL of LIES!!!!
And they are ALL REWRITTEN and REWORDED!!!
WTF is this?!?!
"German Police Arrest 3 in Terrorist Plot" by MARK LANDLER
FRANKFURT, Sept. 5 — German authorities said Wednesday that they had stopped a major terrorist attack against American and German targets in this country, arresting three Islamic militants and seizing a large amount of potentially explosive chemicals and military-grade detonators.
Those arrested — two German citizens who had converted to Islam and a Turkish resident of Germany — were in the advanced stages of plotting bomb attacks that could have been deadlier than those that killed dozens in London and Madrid, the police and security officials said. At least five lesser figures are still being pursued, they said.
“They were planning massive attacks,” the German federal prosecutor, Monika Harms, said at a news conference, outlining an intensive six-month investigation. She said the suspects had amassed hydrogen peroxide, the main chemical in the explosives used in the London suicide bombings of July 2005.
For months, Germany has been warning of a likely terrorist attack, and the government has been contemplating tightening surveillance and enforcement tactics that are now looser than elsewhere in Europe, in part because of Germany’s troubled 20th-century history.
Although officials spoke with confidence of the attack’s imminence and seriousness, they did not make fully clear the basis of their assertions. Europe has been the site of a number of devastating terrorist plots, but some have turned out later to be less than met the eye when announced.
[Wow, what is with the caveat, Times?]
If the announced details hold up under scrutiny, it means that Germany, like Britain, has become a target for sophisticated homegrown terrorism, and the case will fan the debate over the balance between civil liberties and public security. Previous German plots have been far smaller, masterminded by foreigners, or focused outside of Germany, like the 9/11 attacks, which were hatched in Hamburg.
An American intelligence official said that the United States helped German authorities track the location of two of the German suspects by eavesdropping on their cellphone conversations as they moved out of training camps in Pakistan.
[But we can't find dead Osama, and Taliban's can dial in at any time! Pffffftttt!]
Ms. Harms also said that the two German converts had trained in terrorist camps in Pakistan and that the three suspects had about 1,500 pounds of hydrogen peroxide, which they were preparing to move by van when arrested in an out-of-the-way village in western Germany on Tuesday afternoon. Security authorities in Europe have warned for some years that radical converts could pose a keen risk since they blend in easily to mainstream society.
[Yup, we don't know who the "terrorists" could be , so we will have to go up everyone's ass with a microscope -- except for the real FALSE-FLAGGING, INSIDE-JOBBING "TERRORISTS" that is the United States government!]
The Turkish links in this case also trouble counterterrorism experts, who note that Germany has generally not had to contend with a radical element in its large Turkish Muslim minority.
Guido Steinberg, a researcher at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin: “This is the first time I’ve seen a Turkish-German network, and the fact that it is connected to a Turkish network in Pakistan is an even bigger problem.”
[Booga-booga-BOO!!!!!]
While the suspects were homegrown, the targets the authorities said they intended to attack were symbols of the enduring American presence in Germany.
Information that surfaced during the investigation, which included monitoring phone calls and tracking suspects’ movements, led the authorities to conclude that among the targets under consideration were the Ramstein Air Base, a crucial transportation hub for the American military, and Frankfurt International Airport.
The 12 vats of hydrogen peroxide collected by the suspects, when mixed with other chemicals, could produce a bomb with a force equal to 1,200 pounds of TNT, officials said.
[Whaaaaatt????
They gonna MAKE EVERYBODY BLONDE?
That IS TERRIFYING!!!!]
Jörg Ziercke, head of the German Federal Crime Office: “This would have enabled them to make bombs with more explosive power than the ones used in the London and Madrid bombings.”
[Except "CIA-Duh" not involved in Spain, and MI6 did London, so...]
Mr. Ziercke said the men belonged to a terrorist group that the police suspected of having close ties to Al Qaeda, though he did not offer evidence of those links. Counterterrorism experts here expressed wariness, noting that in almost every major attack or suspected plot since 9/11, the role of Al Qaeda has been raised but rarely substantiated.
[Yup, role of "Al-CIA-Duh" never substantiated, huh? Ha-ha-ha!
And WHAT is with the CAVEATS, Times? You starting to SMARTEN UP?]
Nevertheless, the German defense minister, Franz Josef Jung, said on state television: “There was an imminent security threat.”
And some officials said the attacks could have come within days, noting that the German Parliament will soon take up a politically fraught debate about extending the deployment of German troops in Afghanistan. Next week is also the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
German officials were visibly relieved by the arrests — the fruits of an elaborate investigation involving more than 300 people. On Wednesday, police officers raided 41 houses and apartments across Germany, seizing computers and other evidence.
[And CUI BONO?]
But some politicians warned that the danger remained high.
Wolfgang Bosbach, a prominent legislator in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party:
“The arrests yesterday are just evidence of how serious the situation here in Germany is.”
The surveillance was so close that in July, officials said, the police managed to swap some of the tanks of hydrogen peroxide the suspects had gathered with tanks of a far lesser concentration.
[Oh, so NOW it comes out how SMELLY this operation is, and how CHICKEN LITTLE the GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS are with their SCARE-MONGERING!!!
Had 'em under "tight surveillance," huh?
Yeah, 'cause they are WESTERN AGENTS being used as PATSIES!
Able to SWITCH the CHEMICALS!
This "attack" is a CONTRIVED PLOT by the GOVERNMENT!!!!!!
As are ALL "TERRORIST" ATTACKS!!!!
One of the suspects, whom police sources identified as Fritz Gelowicz, a 28-year-old German born in Munich, was detained in 2005 in a raid in a Muslim neighborhood in Bavaria. He was put under surveillance again in December 2006, after he was seen scouting an American military barracks in Hanau, according to court documents.
The police are investigating a German-Turkish man, an associate of Mr. Gelowicz’s and also a suspect in the plot, two security officials said. They said he was believed to be in Turkey.
Tuesday’s arrests were made at a vacation home in Oberschledorn, a village of 800 tucked into the hills, 75 miles north of Frankfurt. The suspects had rented the house to store chemicals to make explosives, officials said. They were preparing to leave when the police swooped in.
One of the three men fled and, in a scuffle with a police officer, wrested a pistol from his holster and shot him in the hand before he was subdued, officials said.
[Really starting to stink as a case!]
A few had seen three young men walking through the village in recent days, but they did not arouse suspicion.
Curinna Imuhl, 12, who lives near the rented house: “I thought no one was there; the shades were always down.”
On Tuesday, the Danish police arrested eight people in a suspected terrorist plot. The German interior minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, said there was no evidence of a direct link between the plots. Six of those suspects have already been released.
[That's NOT what OTHER REPORTS are SAYING! WTF?]
Ms. Harms, the federal prosecutor, said the three suspects arrested Tuesday belonged to a German cell of the Islamic Jihad Union, a radical Sunni group based in Central Asia that split from the extremist Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
While this group has not been linked to terrorist attacks in Europe, it has claimed responsibility for suicide bombings in July 2004 near the United States and Israeli Embassies in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent. The group has called for the overthrow of the secular government in Uzbekistan.
[Really starting to STINK NOW!!!!]
German officials have warned that the country was under threat of a terrorist attack because of Germany’s involvement in Afghanistan. They said they were particularly worried by reports of Germans taking part in terrorist training camps in Pakistan and returning to Germany to carry out attacks.
In Berlin, Chancellor Merkel said: “The lesson from this is the danger is not just abstract, it’s real. The consequences of an attack would have been indescribable.”
[Would be a FULL-FLEDGED POLICE STATE!
Germany has EXPERIENCE in such things!]
Mr. Ziercke said the United States aided German authorities. Another security official said the Americans tipped off the Germans to the existence of the Islamic Jihad Union.
[Oooooh, so the Islamic Jihad Union is an AMERICAN-CREATION!!!
Oooooooh, NOW it ALL MAKES SENSE!!!
And JUST BEFORE 9/11, too!
HOW CONVENIENT for the fascist neo-con madmen!]
President Bush, who is in Australia, was briefed on the arrests, said Gordon D. Johndroe, a spokesman for the National Security Council.
American officials, who have spoken publicly about Al Qaeda’s growing abilities to attack Western targets, say the group in Germany is likely to have ties to Al Qaeda’s operational figures in Pakistan. American spy agencies believe that Qaeda’s leaders have established a haven in Pakistan, where they have set up small compounds to train operatives for attacks on Western targets.
[And CUI BONO?]
American military officials said the Germans contacted them on Tuesday evening to warn them about the plot.
Lt. Cmdr. Corey Barker, a spokesman for the United States European Command in Stuttgart:
“This was a German-led investigation. We do appreciate their commitment to safeguarding us against a terrorist attack.”
[Yeah, but AMERICA POINTED the WAY, huh?
And you knew NOTHING ABOUT IT, huh, general?
Like on 9/11 with the NORAD STAND-DOWN ORDER, huh?]
Ramstein is the largest American air base in Germany and a hub for troops deploying to Eastern Europe, Iraq and Afghanistan. Commander Barker said the base had not lifted its force protection level, which is now at the second highest designation.
['Cause they knew NOTHING TO IT!!
Like Bush at the school on 9/11 -- the DOG that DIDN'T BARK!]
Frankfurt’s airport, the second busiest on the Continent, after Charles de Gaulle in Paris, was operating normally, an airport spokesman said.
Germany narrowly missed a smaller terrorist attack in July 2006, when two suitcase bombs left on commuter trains in Cologne failed to explode. Officials said the two suspects in that attack, from Lebanon, had a fraction of the bomb-making chemicals amassed for this latest plot.
[????]
In June, Mr. Schäuble and his deputy, August Hanning, warned that the terrorist threat was comparable to that in the months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States. That plot was hatched in Hamburg by Islamic militants posing as students.
Mr. Schäuble coupled his warning with a call for stricter anti-terrorism measures. He said he would like the police to be able to conduct surreptitious searches of computers belonging to people suspected of being terrorists.
[See what "terrorism" is REALLY ALL ABOUT!
The TOTAL SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY!!!!]
In the past, some critics here have accused Mr. Schäuble of ratcheting up fears of terrorism in order to build support for his measures. But no such criticisms were voiced on Wednesday.
[Yup, the POINT of this NONSENSE!
And what was this "bomb-making, blonde-making" chemical supposed to be again?]
"An Everyday Substance, Potent When Concentrated" by KENNETH CHANG
Hydrogen peroxide, the chemical that the German police say two terrorism suspects planned to use to make bombs, is a simple molecule — two oxygen atoms and two hydrogen atoms — with myriad uses.
The hydrogen peroxide available in drugstores is just 3 percent hydrogen peroxide by weight; the other 97 percent is water. Such highly dilute solutions are used to bleach hair and disinfect wounds. But at greater concentrations, above 70 percent, hydrogen peroxide can be used as a rocket propellent — or as an ingredient for explosives.
The suspects arrested in Germany on Tuesday had obtained 1,500 pounds of moderately concentrated solution, made up of 35 percent hydrogen peroxide.
[So not the top-notch stuff, but not the beauty product, either, huh?
Did you know peroxide bombs make you DUMB, too?
Here's proof.]
That concentration is potent enough to make at least one type of explosive. If the hydrogen peroxide were mixed with acetone — the primary ingredient of most nail polish removers — the resulting chemical reactions could generate significant amounts of the explosive triacetone triperoxide, or TATP.
[Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!! Would have to mix it with NAIL POLISH!!!!
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
I guess little Ms. Dumbell IS the REAL TERRORIST, as well as ALL THE WHORED-UP WOMEN in America!
Better TAKE AWAY their Zionist-produced MAKE-UP!!!
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!
And if a couple of Muslim men purchase LARGE QUANTITIES of NAIL POLISH, then CALL Homeland Security right away!!!!!!!
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!!]
TATP, which can be used as a detonator or as a primary explosive, has been used by Palestinian suicide bombers and is believed to have been the explosive in the attacks on the London transit system in 2005.
[Oh, you just exposed those GARBAGE PLOTS, too! Yeah, London was peroxide and nail polish!!!!
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-!!!!]
German officials said the peroxide could have been made into an explosive equivalent to 1,200 pounds of TNT. However, investigators have not said what other chemicals they found or what they believed the suspects planned to make.
Outside experts like George Smith, a senior fellow at the research organization GlobalSecurity.org, said that without additional information, it was not possible to guess the size of the threat: “That they accumulated so much material certainly deserved scrutiny.”
[But that doesn't stop German and AmeriKan flakker-flappers from making it the TOP STORY ALL OVER!!
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!!!!]
Common industrial uses for 35 percent hydrogen peroxide solution include the bleaching of wood pulp for paper production and the treatment of wastewater.
William Gulledge, manager of the hydrogen peroxide panel at the American Chemistry Council, an industry group:
“You have an everyday product, more or less, that is used under normal circumstances to improve people’s lives. While 35 percent hydrogen peroxide solution is readily available for purchase, even over the Internet, I think 1,500 pounds would draw someone’s attention pretty quick.”
[Question: Like in the Canada 18 plot, was it the GOVERNMENT that sold them the stuff in a sting?
Was the GOVERNMENT INFILTRATOR a member of the German Armed Forces?
Just asking. Will you answer?]
The federal Department of Transportation regulates solutions containing 8 percent or more hydrogen peroxide by weight as hazardous materials."
Now here is the garbage rewrites, etc., and why I get sick of this shit!
Globe's web-site:
"Germany says it foiled bomb plot; 3 men held in alleged scheme to attack targets frequented by Americans" by Christian Retzlaff and Sebastian Rotella/Los Angeles Times September 6, 2007
BERLIN - Three suspects allegedly trained in Pakistan by an Al Qaeda-linked group have been arrested for plotting massive car-bomb attacks on US troops and other Americans near US military bases and German airports, authorities said yesterday.
[They said they didn't know what they were gonna do with it! WTF?]
After months of surveillance during which German police secretly replaced a stockpile of bomb chemicals with a weaker mixture, a SWAT team raided a vacation home in a wooded village in central Germany on Tuesday and arrested the trio, two of whom were German converts to Islam. One of the suspects grabbed an officer's gun, shooting him in the hand and suffering a cut on the head during a struggle.
[WTF?!?! Getting sick of the double-speak and LIES, like me, reader?]
Searches in five German states deployed 600 officers, an unprecedented number for an antiterrorism operation led by federal police here, on the same day that Danish police seized bomb materials in Copenhagen and charged a Pakistani and an Afghan with plotting an attack under the direction of unidentified Al Qaeda leaders. Authorities said they knew of no direct connections between the men arrested in the two European nations.
The two alleged plots stoke fears that a resurgent Al Qaeda is using hide-outs near the Afghan-Pakistani border to train Europe-based militants to hit Western targets in Europe, which has become a front line because it is easier to enter than the United States and has a larger, more restive Muslim population.
[CUI BONO?]
The trio in Germany allegedly planned simultaneous strikes on three soft targets that might have included nightclubs, bars, restaurants, or airports frequented by American soldiers and tourists, according to German and US law enforcement officials. Because the confiscated materials could have produced the equivalent of about 1,000 pounds of TNT, the casualty toll could have far exceeded the transport bombings that killed 52 people in London in 2005 and 191 people in Madrid in 2004, officials said.
Joerg Ziercke, chief of the federal police, at a news conference with top law-enforcement officials:
"The London bombs had only [6 to 10 pounds] of explosive material. Here, we are talking about [approximately 1,000 pounds]. In my opinion, a high number of casualties was the main objective, otherwise this enormous amount of explosives is hard to explain."
The third suspect arrested was a Turkish Muslim living in Germany. The three allegedly underwent training last year at a terrorist camp in northern Pakistan run by the Islamic Jihad Union, an extremist network that broke away from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, a longtime Al Qaeda ally, authorities said.
A US counterterrorism official who was not authorized to speak on the record:
"We have been concerned about the heightened threat from Al Qaeda and affiliated groups such as the IJU, and this particular plot is consistent with that trend of decentralized command and control in many parts of the world."
German police conducted 41 searches Tuesday and were investigating seven to 10 associates of the jailed suspects, who were said to be testing mixtures and assembling bomb components at the time of their arrest. Surveillance revealed that the jailed suspects' primary motivation was a hatred of Americans, German and US officials said.
[If they were "testing mixtures," how could these guys even be near "ready to go?"]
Another law enforcement official who asked to remain anonymous:
"In the suspects' minds, they were from days to a couple of weeks away from an attack. The targets weren't that set, but they wanted to hit soft targets around military bases where there are large populations of Americans."
Although officials did not reveal links between the suspects in Germany and Denmark, both cases feature stockpiles of bombmaking materials and suspected links to Pakistan and Al Qaeda-related figures there. The German suspects tried to maintain secrecy by communicating through the Internet and, like the Danish group, allegedly received orders or external communications from the network in Pakistan, officials said.
[Yeah, that's a REAL GOOD WAY to maintain "secrecy!"
Why is bin-Laden allegedly using foot-couriers, then?
See how RIDICULOUS all this becomes when you START THINKING IT THROUGH, reader?
"TERRORISM" is all a big pile of SOFT-SERVE, SIDE-WINDING SHIT for stoo-pid Amurkns consumption!]
Danish and German police communicated with each other and US counterparts about the raids, which occurred a week before the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on America, a period believed to be of heightened risk. Investigators say that the fugitive leaders of Al Qaeda have been emboldened by their ability to operate in Pakistan and have set their sights on new targets in Europe.
[I'll bet they did!!!!]
The German investigation began more than nine months ago with a suspect identified as Fritz G., a 28-year-old convert who lives in Ulm. He was questioned and released in January after he allegedly conducted reconnaissance on two US military barracks near Hanau, authorities said. He was arrested again Tuesday along with the other two suspects, whose names were not released. Surveillance early this year revealed that the three were trained by the Islamic Jihad Union in Pakistan in 2006.
Between February and August, one of the suspects went to Hanover and amassed about 1,500 pounds of 35 percent concentrated hydrogen peroxide solution purchased at a legitimate company under false pretenses, authorities said.
The chemical, held in 12 containers, was stored in a rented garage in the Black Forest region. As suspicions grew, police gained entry to the garage and, with the help of the company selling the chemical to the suspect, switched the solution with a much weaker mixture of 3 percent hydrogen peroxide concentrate, officials said. The suspects obtained other bombmaking components, including a detonator, from a source that remains unclear, perhaps during travels to Turkey and Pakistan, officials said.
[Oh, waht a STINKSHIT SET-UP!!!! Yup, HEAVY SURVEILLANCE on these agent provocateurs and we have an UNCLEAR SOURCE!! OH, STINK!!!!!!!!!]
On Aug. 17, one of the suspects rented a three-bedroom vacation apartment in the 900-resident village of Oberschledorn, a popular skiing and hiking locale, where the three allegedly began making bombs after Sept. 2."
So here is the web version of my paper version. It's all hacked up!!! WTF?!
"Germany Says It Foiled Bomb Plot; 3 Suspects Allegedly Trained in Pakistan, Planned to Hit Sites Frequented by Americans" by Craig Whitlock/Washington Post September 6, 2007
BERLIN, Sept. 5 --German authorities said Wednesday that they had disrupted a "massive" bombing plot targeting American interests in Germany, and they expressed alarm at evidence that the three local suspects had visited militant camps in Pakistan -- the latest example of people traveling from Europe to that country for terrorist training.
Prosecutors said the men -- two Germans who had converted to Islam and a Turkish citizen who lived in Germany -- had trained at camps in Pakistan run by the Islamic Jihad Union, a Central Asian network that is a close ally of al-Qaeda.
Counterterrorism officials said the three were among more than a dozen residents of Germany who had journeyed to Pakistan in recent months and were subsequently arrested or placed under surveillance. Key suspects in the London transit system attacks in July 2005 and a plot to blow up transatlantic airliners last summer also received training in Pakistan before returning to Europe for attacks, investigators believe.
U.S. intelligence officials have said in recent weeks that al-Qaeda and its affiliates have reconstituted themselves in Pakistan's remote mountain regions along the border with Afghanistan and have bolstered their ability to launch attacks on the West from there.
German authorities said that the three men arrested Tuesday, all in their 20s, were aiming at American facilities or sites likely to result in American casualties but that it was unclear whether they had settled on a target. Security officials said evidence indicated that Ramstein Air Base, a major U.S. and NATO installation, and Frankfurt's international airport ranked high on the list of sites under consideration.
Federal Prosecutor Monika Harms said at a news conference in the city of Karlsruhe:
"We were able to succeed in recognizing and preventing these most serious and massive bombings."
[Wow! Talk about SELLING CONEVENTIAL LIES, MYTHS and a COVER STORY!!!
These newspapers are the GOVERNMENT'S BEST FRIEND!!!]
Police arrested the three men Tuesday afternoon after raiding a two-story white cottage the men had rented in Oberschledorn, a hilly burg of about 900 people north of Frankfurt. One of the men escaped through a window and was grabbed by officers as he sprinted through the village, officials said.
Authorities said the group had accumulated more than 200 gallons of a concentrated hydrogen peroxide solution that is a key ingredient in homemade bombs used by terrorist groups.
[They are saying 1,500? WTF?]
Joerg Ziercke, chief of the German federal police, told reporters: "This would have enabled them to make bombs with more explosive power than the ones used in the London and Madrid bombings."
On display at the news conference where Ziercke and Harms spoke were large blue containers that police reported seizing from the men.
[Yeah, like a PROP for the shit-eating news media!]
Authorities said that in July police had secretly exchanged the suspects' supply of the liquid with a harmless substance but allowed the men to continue their plot.
[They DIDN'T DO THAT in 1993!!!!!!
Still think there are "Islamic terrorists" out to get us, reader?
See who they are WORKING FOR now?]
Peroxide-based explosives have been used in several al-Qaeda-sponsored attacks, including the kitchen-built backpack bombs that exploded on the London transit system on July 7, 2005, killing 52 passengers and four attackers. The bombs used in the March 11, 2004, train attacks in Madrid were made from dynamite.
[RIDICULOUS!
Caused all that damage, huh, when a Palestinian can only take out a couple of Israelis at a time?
EL STINKO!!!!!!]
In late February, in one of his earliest appearances on Capitol Hill as director of national intelligence, Mike McConnell described the revival of al-Qaeda training of recruits in Pakistan's North Waziristan mountains. Without giving details, he said a number of terrorist "plans and activities have been shut down or disrupted." He warned that al-Qaeda elements in Iraq, Syria and Europe were planning attacks.
One of the skills taught in these camps, intelligence officials say, is how to make peroxide-based explosives, which can be assembled from materials available at drugstores and are difficult for police to detect.
[Shut down the pharmacies because of terror!!!
Or is the MOST PRESSING ISSUE of our times NOT THAT IMPORTANT!
That WHORING-UP is MORE IMPORTANT than SAFETY and SECURITY?
What a FAKE WAR!!!!!]
The most commonly used compound is triacetone triperoxide, or TATP, which can be made from household products such as nail polish remover and hydrogen peroxide by concentrating the solutions and mixing them with other ingredients. The resulting compound is highly unstable and can detonate at any time.
[Oh, yeah, HIGHLY UNSTABLE, huh?
DETONATE at ANY TIME!
Yup, "SUICIDER" on his way with the UNSTABLE CHEMICALS and BOOM!!!!!
What a FUCKING CON-GAME SCAM this "TERRORIST" SHIT IS!!!!
Will NEVER BE FOOLED AGAIN, fuckers, so DON'T EVEN TRY ANOTHER FALSE-FLAG INSIDE JOB!!!!!!!!!!!]
British investigators have said that TATP and a related compound, HMTD, hexamethylene triperoxide diamine, were the primary explosives in the London transit attacks and in the disrupted August 2006 plot to blow up several airliners flying from Britain to the United States. British citizen Richard Reid tried unsuccessfully to use a TATP bomb concealed in his shoe to blow up an American Airlines jet en route from Paris to Miami in 2001.
[Gee, can't they make explosives out of SOMETHING ELSE, too?
All these "terrorists" making the SAME TYPE of BOMBS?
Pfffffffffttttttt!!!]
German officials said Wednesday that one of the suspects seized Tuesday had been detained briefly by German police in December after he was seen acting suspiciously outside a U.S. military installation in Hanau. He was quickly released without charge.
[WTF? So HE IS an AGENT of the government!!!!]
Investigators and other sources said tracking of the cell began in earnest this spring when U.S. officials tipped off their German counterparts about the suspects' travels between Pakistan and Germany, as well as their affiliation with Islamic Jihad Union, a group with no previously known presence in Europe.
[That is usually a RED-FLAG for WESTERN-INTEL BLACK-OP GROUPS!!!!
And HERE THEY ARE AGAIN!]
The group is an offshoot of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, which has been branded a terrorist organization by the U.S. government. Based in Central Asia, it asserted responsibility for suicide bombings in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, in July 2004 near the U.S. and Israeli embassies.
Uzbek militants have become prominent in recent years along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, and counterterrorism analysts said they sometimes cooperate with al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters.
In mid-spring, German authorities informed the Americans that cell members had obtained a house in Hanau, according to a senior U.S. intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The cell's activities prompted the U.S. Embassy in Berlin to issue a warning April 20 of an increased threat of terrorism in Germany, particularly against Americans. Officials did not elaborate on the nature of the threat at the time.
Since then, information flowed regularly between U.S. and German intelligence officials. The U.S. contribution was mostly electronic intercepts, while the Germans handled operations on the ground, the official said:
"They employed a lot of people operating in several areas of their country."
[I wonder if the Taliban's German hostages are covert agents.
Of course, AmeriKa's shit MSM would never tell us that, even if it were true!
They are PROMOTING a NaZionist agenda and viewpoint of the world, not "reporting news."]
German prosecutors said that in February, the suspects started acquiring liquid hydrogen peroxide, ultimately amassing 1,600 pounds of it.
[So why low-ball at 200 above?]
Investigators said the cell purchased the chemicals from stores near Hanover, in central Germany, but stored them in a different part of the country -- in a garage in Freudenstadt, a town in the Black Forest in the southwest.
In July, authorities managed to swap out the chemicals.
On Aug. 17, one of the suspects, using a false name, rented a vacation house in Oberschledorn, a village a long drive north in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, prosecutors said.
On Saturday, the suspects began transferring the phony chemicals from the Black Forest to the vacation house, where they had also collected detonators and electronic parts.
That prompted police to sweep in and make the arrests Tuesday, prosecutors said.
Heinrich Nolte, mayor of the district that includes Oberschledorn, said in a telephone interview: "It was a huge shock for the residents."
But Hildegard Hellwig, an Oberschledorn homemaker, said people in the village had begun to whisper in recent days about unusual activity near the rented house on Oak Lane:
"There was a car parked in a field. The people near the field knew it didn't belong there. In a village, something like that gets noticed."
[Especially when you have deep fascist roots in Nazism!!!
SPY on your neighbor, SPY on your friends!
Oh, what a wonderful world!]
A security official identified the alleged ringleader of the cell as Fritz Martin Gelowicz, 28, of Bavaria state. Prosecutors named the two others as Adem Y., 28, a Turkish national, and Daniel S., a 21-year-old German, following the German practice of withholding the surnames of suspects.
Police transported the three men by helicopter Wednesday to a court in Karlsruhe, where they appeared before a judge in closed session. The court ordered them held on charges of membership in a terrorist organization."
This is the shit version I got, and WHY the REWRITE?
HANH, lying fucking press corp?!?!
"Germany says it foiled bomb plot; 3 men held in alleged scheme to attack targets frequented by Americans" by Craig Whitlock/Washington Post September 6, 2007
"German authorities said yesterday that they had disrupted an "imminent" plot to bomb American targets in Germany, possibly including the largest U.S. air base in Europe and Frankfurt's international airport.
Three men in their 20s were in custody after their arrest Tuesday afternoon in a remote village in western Germany, about 100 miles north of Frankfurt. The police said they recovered large quantities of chemicals for making explosives.
Federal prosecutor Monika Harms told a news conference there was evidence the suspects had trained at camps in Pakistan run by the Islamic Jihad Union, an offshoot of a Central Asian network, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, that the U.S. government has branded a terrorist organization.
Two of the suspects are German citizens and converts to Islam, officials said, including the alleged ringleader, Fritz Gelowicz, a 28-year-old Bavarian resident. The third suspect is a Turkish national who has lived in Germany for years, officials said.
The suspects appeared yesterday before a federal judge in Karlsruhe, who ordered that they be held pending trial on charges of membership in a terrorist organization.
Investigators and other sources said the cell had been under intensive surveillance for several months. They said U.S. officials had tipped off their German counterparts about the suspects' travels between Pakistan and Germany, as well as their affiliation with Islamic Jihad Union, a group with no previous presence in Europe.
The cell's activities had prompted the U.S. embassy in Berlin to issue a warning on April 20 about an increased threat of terrorism and said Americans in the country were particularly at risk. U.S. diplomatic and consular offices bolstered security in response to what the embassy termed "a heightened threat situation," although officials did not elaborate on the nature of the threat at the time.
Despite the public warning and subsequent disclosures from German authorities in July that they were monitoring several people who had traveled to Pakistan to train in terror camps, the group forged ahead and was assembling its bomb-making ingredients when they were arrested Tuesday, according to German and U.S. officials.
German Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung told ARD television: "There was an imminent threat."
German authorities said the cell wanted to harm Americans but that it was unclear if the suspects had selected a target.
[???
Not what the tv news was telling me, and they reported before he wrote this.
WTF?]
Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told a news conference in Berlin:
"We do not know the targets of the attack. There are strong indications for the assumption that it was against American institutions, but the Frankfurt airport has also been named."
German media reports, citing other security officials, singled out Ramstein Air Base, a major U.S. and NATO installation in western Germany, as a possible target.
U.S. Air Force Capt. DarrickLee, a spokesman for the U.S. European Command in Stuttgart, said he had no information on whether Ramstein or other bases had been threatened. He said U.S. military officials had not raised force protection levels at any installations in Germany in recent months.
German investigators said the suspects had obtained 12 barrels of hydrogen peroxide, a common ingredient in homemade bombs.
[????]
Joerg Ziercke, chief of the German federal police:
"This would have enabled them to make bombs with more explosive power than the ones used in the London and Madrid bombings. This group distinguishes itself through its profound hatred of U.S. citizens."
Peroxide-based explosives have been used in several al-Qaida-sponsored attacks, including the July 7, 2005, transit bombings in London and by shoe bomber Richard Reid, who tried but failed to bring down an American Airlines jet from Paris to Miami in 2001. The bombs in the March 11, 2004, train bombings in Madrid were made from dynamite.
[And NOT "CIA-Duh!"]
Investigators said the German cell wouldn't have gotten very far. They said agents intervened at one point and secretly replaced the stash of hydrogen peroxide with another substance that would have rendered bomb-making attempts futile.
[And yet we get government officials ONCE AGAIN WORST-CASING IT!!!
Just booga-booga, Amurka!!! You SCARED YET?
I'm not!
I KNOW WHO THE TERRORISTS ARE, and I KNOW WHERE THEY ARE.
In the White House in Washington D.C.!!!!!!!]
Scotland Yard investigators used the same tactic in 2003 when investigating an al-Qaida-sponsored cell that had stored 1,200 pounds of ammonium nitrate in a warehouse. Four men were convicted in April on terrorism charges in that case, known as Operation Crevice.
[That's not hydrogen peroxide!
Yeah, LUMP 'EM ALL TOGETHER, anyway, WTF, right, shit press?!?!]
Authorities said the three suspects Tuesday were arrested in Oberschledorn, a village of about 900 people in a hilly region of western Germany. Ziercke said two of the suspects were arrested inside a vacation home they had rented there, while the third man was nabbed shortly after he escaped through a bathroom window.
Heinrich Nolte, mayor of the local district that includes Oberschledorn, said in a telephone interview:
"It was a huge shock for the residents. Everyone knows everyone here in Oberschledorn."
German officials said one of the suspects was detained briefly in December after he was seen acting suspiciously outside a U.S. military installation in Hanau. He was released without charge.
Ziercke said there was no evidence of a connection between the German cell and the arrests of eight terrorism suspects in Denmark on Tuesday. In that case, Danish authorities said the group was planning a bomb attack and was linked to senior al-Qaida leaders, but gave no details about the intended target. Six of those arrested were later released."
[Another GARBAGE PLOT COLLAPSES!!!!]
Now the web pieces that were on the same sites last night. WTF?
"Germans arrest 3 in alleged terror plot" by David Mchugh/Associated Press September 5, 2007
BERLIN --Three militants from an Islamic group linked to al-Qaida were planning "imminent" bomb attacks against Americans in Germany when an elite anti-terrorist unit raided their small-town hideout after months of intense surveillance, officials said Wednesday.
The men -- two German converts to Islam and a Turkish citizen who prosecutors said shared a "profound hatred of U.S. citizens" -- allegedly obtained military-style detonators and enough chemicals to make bombs more powerful than those that killed 191 commuters in Madrid in 2004 and 52 in London in 2005.
Frankfurt International Airport and the nearby U.S. Ramstein Air Base reportedly were the suspects' primary targets.
Prosecutors indicated police defused the danger earlier in the six-month investigation by stealthily substituting a harmless chemical for the raw bomb material amassed by the suspects. They said police moved in Tuesday when the alleged plotters seemed ready to try to make bombs.
Coming less than a week before the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S., it was the second consecutive day that European authorities announced they had thwarted a major attack. Danish officials said Tuesday they had broken up a bomb plot by arresting six Danish citizens and two other residents with links to senior al-Qaida terrorists.
Security experts said the two purported plots are a reminder that Muslim extremists are not driven just by anger at the United States and its policies.
Islamic radicals "treat the whole Western world as their enemy," said Tadeusz Wrobel, an analyst of military and security issues in Warsaw.
Bob Ayres, a former U.S. intelligence officer who is an analyst at Chatham House, a London think tank, said the radical ideology embraced by Islamic militants outweighs national loyalty, noting that many of those arrested in alleged European terror plots in recent years grew up here:
"They're not Germans, Brits or French. They are radical Muslims living in these countries."
[And you false-flagging, mass-murdering neo-con shitlets are NOT HUMAN!]
Prosecutors said the three men arrested in Germany underwent training at camps in Pakistan run by the Islamic Jihad Union and had formed a German cell of the al-Qaida-influenced group. Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden is believed hiding in Pakistan.
Officials described the Islamic Jihad Union as a Sunni Muslim group based in Central Asia that is an offshoot of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, an extremist organization with origins in that former Soviet state.
Joerg Ziercke, head of the Federal Crime Office, Germany's equivalent of the FBI, told reporters: "This group distinguishes itself through its profound hatred of U.S. citizens."
[And the United Staes is DESERVING of every last bit of hatred and resentment, too!
That's all right, Amurka!
I know "57 percent say they do not like learning about political issues in other countries," so GO BACK to EATING SOFT-SERVE, SIDE-WINDING MSM SHIT, AMURKA!!!
And SMILE while you are CHEWING!]
Federal Prosecutor Monika Harms said the three suspects intended to attack institutions and establishments frequented by Americans in Germany, including discos, pubs and airports. Her office said the plan was to set off car bombs.
Harms said at a news conference: "We were able to succeed in recognizing and preventing the most serious and massive bombings."
She declined to name specific targets.
Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung told ARD broadcaster: "There was an imminent threat."
A senior State Department official said German investigators determined that Frankfurt International Airport and the nearby U.S. Ramstein Air Base were the primary targets, although other sites may have under consideration. The official agreed to discuss the confidential between American and German intelligence agencies only if not quoted by name.
Germany's government had been increasingly worried about the danger of terror plots after attacks on its troops serving in Afghanistan, and security measures had been stepped up.
Chancellor Angela Merkel said: "This shows that terrorist dangers, in our country as well, are not abstract but are real."
She thanked security officials for foiling the attack and called the arrests a "very, very great success."
In Washington, National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said President Bush was pleased a potential attack was thwarted and expressed appreciation for the work of German authorities.
FBI spokesman Richard Kolko said the FBI and Department of Homeland Security saw "no imminent threat to the U.S. domestically following these arrests."
[Yup, and BETTER NEVER EVER BE ONE AGAIN!
All the MONEY SPENT on SECURITY, plus FIGHTEN' 'EM THERE SO....]
Germany's elite GSG-9 anti-terrorist unit arrested two of the suspects at a vacation home in Oberschledorn, a town of some 900 people in central Germany, officials said. The third suspect fled out a bathroom window but was caught about 300 yards away, they said.
The suspects were taken before a judge in closed sessions Wednesday at the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe and ordered held pending trial.
Prosecutors said the three -- identified only as Fritz Martin G., 28; Adem Y., 28; and Daniel Martin S., 21 -- first came to the attention of police when one or more of them carried out surveillance of U.S. military facilities in Hanau, near Frankfurt, in late 2006.
[Well, which is it? Pfffffftttt!]
Officials said that during the first part of this year, the men acquired 12 containers of 35 percent hydrogen peroxide solution, which can be combined with other material to make explosives -- as did the four London suicide bombers who blew up three subway cars and a bus on July 7, 2005.
In diluted form hydrogen peroxide is commonly used in hair coloring and as a disinfectant, but the more than 1,500 pounds obtained by the suspects could have made a bomb with the explosive power of some 1,200 pounds of dynamite, officials said.
Ziercke, head of the Federal Crime Office: "This would have enabled them to make bombs with more explosive power than the ones used in the London and Madrid bombings."
In a sign of the intense surveillance involving 300 police officers, prosecutors said that at one point police were able to replace the dangerous peroxide in the containers with a harmless solution without the knowledge of the suspects.
The containers were first kept in a garage in the Black Forest region in southern Germany. Then on Aug. 17, one of the three rented a vacation cottage in Oberschledorn under a false name, and was joined there by the other two suspects Sunday, officials said.
Police decided to move in when the suspects transported one of the peroxide containers to the cottage, where they also had taken detonators and electrical components.
Officials seized computers and were trying to determine if anyone else was involved in their activities. The three had no steady work and were collecting unemployment benefits while their main occupation was the plot, officials said.
[Yup, BUM TERRORISTS!!!!
As opposed to the DOC TERRORISTS of England, right?
SEE HOW RIDICULOUS and LAUGHABLE this HUGE LIE GETS, reader?
Just the MSM and GOVERNMENT SHOVELING SHIT into your head!]
Police also searched an Islamic information center in the southern town of Ulm, home to one of the suspects.
The arrests came a little over a year after two bombs fashioned from gas canisters failed to explode on German commuter trains. Officials said that attack was motivated by anger over cartoons portraying the Prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper. Several suspects are on trial in Lebanon, and a Lebanese man has been charged in Germany.
Additionally, three of the four suicide pilots involved in the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the U.S. had lived and studied in Hamburg."
"Plot designed to increase pressure for Afghanistan pullout" by Judy Dempsey/International Herald Tribune September 5, 2007
"The alleged plot by Islamist militants to carry out "massive bomb attacks" against U.S. and German installations was designed in part to increase pressure for a pullout of German troops from Afghanistan, security experts said Wednesday.
Even though most of Germany's 3,200 troops are based in a relatively peaceful region in the north of Afghanistan - not in the south where NATO military forces are trying to contain an insurgency led by Al Qaeda, the Taliban and other forces - it has not been immune to attacks on its troops or threats against targets in Germany.
Thomas Ruttig, an expert on security issues and Afghanistan at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin:
"It is not entirely a coincidence that the foiled attacks today are part of a strategy by Al Qaeda. They want to try to influence the political debate here about the role of the German troops."
[Yeah, WE KNOW it is NOT COINCIDENCE!!!
And CUI BONO?
This action immediately triggers the "we gotta stay or they win, " argument!
CUI BONO, reader? Muslims?
Why would Muslims want to bolster Western opinion in support of these wars when it is falling?
What "Muslim extremist" in his right mind is going to HELP the NEW WORLD ORDER and it's governmental puppets?
CUI BONO, reader, CUI BONO?]
Ruttig added that the timing of the plot had been linked to the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington and the coming debate in the Bundestag, or German Parliament, about whether to extend the mandate for troops serving in Afghanistan:
"Al Qaeda is following the domestic debate here over the future of the German troops in Afghanistan. They know exactly what is going on here."
[Yup, can't call out on a phone, can't use a computer, has no electricity, but "Al-CIA-Duh" KNOWS WHAT IS GOING ON!
Yup, I bet "Al-CIA-Duh" SURE DOES!!!]
Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble and his deputy, August Hanning, who is a former head of the security services, warned in July of possible attacks in Europe by German Islamist suicide bombers trained in camps in Pakistan.
Earlier this year, a Lebanese man was charged with planning a series of train bomb attacks in 2006.
Three of the three pilots involved in the Sept. 11 terror attacks had studied and lived in the northern German city of Hamburg.
Schäuble and Hanning were accused by opposition parties of exaggerating the threat and sowing panic.
[Noooooo! FASCIST, TOTALITARIAN POLICE STATES NEVER DO THAT!]
In recent weeks, Schäuble has called for tougher laws that would allow pre-emptive detention of suspected militants and permit the government to prevent people considered dangerous from using the Internet and mobile phones.
[Just CUT YOU OFF from society, 'eh, NAZI?!!!!!!]
Last week, the Interior Ministry was planning to send spy software programs into computers owned by people they suspected of having links with terrorist organizations.
[Oh, is this thing ever RATCHETING UP FAST!!!!
And how come the N.Y. Times -- the parent of the IHT -- DOESN'T TELL ME ABOUT THIS?!!
HANH?!?!
No wonder Amurkns are SO FUCKING STOO-PID!!!!]
In both cases, Schäuble was criticized by civil liberties advocates, but the Interior Ministry said Wednesday that it was more confident that it could tighten security controls.
Eckart von Klaeden, foreign policy spokesman for the Christian Democrat Union party of Chancellor Angela Merkel:
"It is absurd that the security services cannot have that access, particularly given how terrorist groups and individuals communicate via the Internet."
[Not about "terrorism," but about POPULATION CONTROL!!!!
You will FAIL, fuckers!!!]
He added that Germany was not immune from attack because it had sent no troops to Iraq.
Terror attacks in London and Madrid were directly related to military involvement in Iraq but the German public has generally believed that by not becoming involved in Iraq, Germany would be immune from attack.
von Klaeden said: "Its presence in Afghanistan was making it more vulnerable, which terrorist groups could use as leverage. The German government and public had to stand united in keeping its troops in Afghanistan and supporting measures that would prevent terrorist attacks,. We have to remain in Afghanistan. The last thing Al Qaeda and the Taliban want is a democratic and prosperous Afghanistan."
[Yup, just as I said! CUI BONO, reader??
And is AIR BOMBING the FUCK out of them "PROSPERITY," you mass-murdering fucking Nazi?]
WE GOTTA STAY, even if it is all based on SHIT LIES we fed to our publics!!!!
WHAT NAZI SHITSCUM!!!!!!!!!]
A German engineer has been held hostage by radical Islamists in Afghanistan for several months and three German soldiers were killed there last May by suicide bombers. Last month, three police officers were killed in Kabul when their convoy was blown up by a roadside bomb. In all, 24 German soldiers and security personnel have been killed since the Afghan mission began in 2002.
Political parties in Germany have been embroiled in an often-bitter debate about the role played by German troops in Afghanistan and particularly about the high numbers of citizens killed by NATO forces and U.S. troops. The new Left Party, led by a former Social Democrat leader, Oskar Lafontaine, has called for all troops, not only those in Afghanistan but also those serving in other multinational peacekeeping missions, to be brought home immediately.
[Hey, look, we found a GOOD GERMAN!]
Lafontaine said Tuesday that his party would vote against extending troop mandates.
The opposition Greens party, which supported sending troops to Afghanistan when it was in coalition with the Social Democrats, is now having doubts. Under pressure from the party's pacifist wing, it will hold a special congress on the issue in the coming days.
Even the Social Democrats, increasingly concerned that their own pacifist voters will drift to the Left Party, have decided to put Afghanistan and other peacekeeping missions on the agenda of its annual party congress later this year."
[More likely worried about being TARRED-and-FEATHERED, I think!
Just like what we are going to do with AMERICAN POLITICIANS if this LYING, FALSE-FLAGGING, INSIDE-JOBBING MASS-MURDERING conduct continues!!!!
You GOT THAT, stink elites?
WE ARE COMING FOR YOU!!!!!!! P.S.
Did you notice the rewrites, etc, and how they constantly skew and distort, reader? And this is only ONE STORY!!!
The MSM does that to EVERY SINGLE STORY on EVERY SINGLE ISSUE!!
After all, it's a business, and they are in the "business" of SELLING an AGENDA and PUSHING a Zionist-colored VIEWPOINT of the world!!!!
