Germans arrest 3 in alleged terror plot by Delia Cruceru

Yesterday, September 5 two German citizens converted to Islam and one Turkish resident of Germany were arrested in alleged terror plot. "This is the first time I've seen a Turkish-German network," said Guido Steinberg, a researcher at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin. "And the fact that it is connected to a Turkish network in Pakistan is an even bigger problem." Federal Prosecutor Monika Harms said that the three suspects of terrorism planned to attack Frankfurt International Airport and the U.S. Ramstein Air Base and other spots frequented by Americans in Germany. According to Harms the two Germans converted trained in terrorist camps in Pakistan and that the three suspected had about 1,500 pounds of hydrogen peroxide the equivalent of 1200 pounds of TNT. They were arrested in a vacation home from the village of Oberschledorn with 900 people, at 75 miles north of Frankfurt. The three suspects are members of 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. Chancellor Angela Merkel said in Berlin that "The lesson from this is the danger is not just abstract, it's real. The consequences of an attack would have been indescribable."

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by Delia Cruceru for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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