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Germany Warns of Suicide Attacks, Increased Security
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The German government has received reports from U.S. intelligence sources that militant Islamists are threatening to commit suicide attacks on German soil.
"German security authorities have increased their vigilance and have taken extra measures to meet a potential threat by Islamic suicide bombers," German Interior Ministry spokesman Christian Sachs told reporters at a news conference in Berlin today.
Photos Terror Threat in Germany
German authorities have seen the exclusive video broadcast by ABC News on Monday, which showed a Taliban military commander introducing suicide teams assigned to carry out attacks in the United States, Canada, Germany and Great Britain.
Wolfgang Bosbach,a member of the German Parliament, said this latest scene was yet another mosaic stone in the Islamic terrorist picture, "We're not alone in this, but the danger is very real."
"We can no longer assume the terror threat by Islamic militants to be abstract. There is clear evidence of concrete threats not only in Europe, but in particular in Germany," Bosbach, who is also Chancellor Angela Merkel's security expert, told ABCNews.com.
Earlier this month, two German nationals were captured along the border of Pakistan and Iran. The men are suspected of being militant Islamists and were carrying large amounts of cash and fake IDs.
Bosbach could not elaborate any further, but he confirmed Pakistani authorities indeed arrested "men with German background they considered dangerous when these men attempted to travel back to Germany."
Also today, a TV report out of Pakistan quoted German intelligence sources reporting "at least 10 to 12 'potential would-be terrorists' had left Germany recently to travel to Pakistan and Afghanistan to join terrorist training camps there."
ABC News first reported last month that U.S. and German officials feared a new terror attack on U.S. military personnel or tourists was in the advanced planning stages in Germany.
U.S. air marshals had been diverted to provide expanded protection of flights between Germany and the United States.
And as recently as last weekend, a German embassy convoy was attacked near Kabul. A vehicle was destroyed, but nobody was injured.
Germany has around 3,000 troops serving in Afghanistan as part of NATO peacekeeping forces.
"The threat needs to be taken serious. We have information that attacks, as we saw recently in Afghanistan, could happen on German soil, too," said the German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schauble, referring to a recent suicide attack, which left three German soldiers dead when their convoy was attacked in Kabul.
"The atmosphere reminds me of that during the summer of 2001," said August Hanning, secretary of state in the German Interior ministry. "We also saw some hints of the same kind then, and then there was 9/11. There certainly is no need for the public to panic, but there is definitely good reason to call for people's vigilance."
June 22, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (19)
This is what happens when third world immigration takes a stranglehold of westernized countries; terror becomes an infused part of the culture and rule of law and order, attempting to dominate and annihilate that culture and the rule of law and order.
Posted by: TDef | Jun 22, 2007 1:51:06 PM
This is what happens when terrorists know the West is too weak-willed to fight for its own future. It's just the beginning.
Posted by: John Kantor | Jun 22, 2007 2:34:58 PM
This is what happens when a nation rejects the God of the Bible and His commandments. When the righteous rule, the people rejoice. When the wicked rule, the people groan. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord YHWH. When a man or nation's ways please the Lord He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. God commands that men everywhere repent. Wake up, America
Posted by: RSW | Jun 22, 2007 2:36:03 PM
RSW, that is just STUPID...it's indiscriminate and...just ridiculous.
Anyway, This is what happens when you don't give your money to the 700 Club...
Posted by: Jazz | Jun 22, 2007 4:01:57 PM
This is what happens when everyone is allowed access to the comment board.
Posted by: Richard | Jun 22, 2007 5:52:58 PM
this is what it sounds like when doves cry.
Posted by: moustached man | Jun 22, 2007 6:01:22 PM
(ALL OF) THOSE DARN FAIRY TALES are what has gotten us into this mess in the first place.
Posted by: Jethro Brown | Jun 22, 2007 6:58:49 PM
Well RSW, I guess George Bush isn't a man of god after all.
Posted by: dilly | Jun 22, 2007 7:13:32 PM
Germany has already experienced TERROR in its history. To date Americans can be thankful for the relative peace on her homeland. "God shed His grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea. God mend thine every flaw, confirm thy soul in self-control, thy liberty in law."
Posted by: RSW | Jun 22, 2007 7:56:57 PM
How so VERY Christian of you, RSW to point out the splinter in your brother's eye while ignoring the plank in your own.
These "terrors" are HUMANITY'S terrors. Not that any of them have ever been committed in the Name of God, PRAY, TELL.
Posted by: Jethro Brown | Jun 22, 2007 9:39:12 PM
The business of America is America!"Americism"I LOVE YOU!America and WE have to stay strong! Jesus loves us.
Posted by: Ella | Jun 22, 2007 11:36:48 PM
People who give up freedom to obtain security deserve neither of them! The enemies of our culture fight our freedom, don't let them succeed. If the price for our freedom is to receive some terror, then we have accept that.
To get security, we have to fight the cause and the symptoms of terror. At the moment i miss the fight against the cause of terror.
Posted by: from Germany | Jun 23, 2007 1:49:47 AM
This has nothing to do with god; these people are brainwashed uncivilized extremists that have no respect for life. No true god would endorse murder to further a cause.
Posted by: PK | Jun 23, 2007 2:01:56 AM
Honestly, South Park said it best. The episode "War of the Cartoons" has a great monologue discussing the price of freedom. "It's been easy for us. The last few decades we haven't had to defend freedom." It's so very true. We've had it easy; we haven't had to defend our freedom and now we are not only having to defend ourselves from terrorists around the world but from our government that has been successfully terrified by attacks and have begun systemically denying freedoms, the very principle under attack, to its citizens. As Benjamin Franklin said, "The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either." How much more freedom will we sacrifice to be safe, and have we already traded too much to be worthy of either?
Posted by: NoVirtue | Jun 23, 2007 8:37:03 AM
I just don't get the montheistic-pagan off-shoots. Religion is cultural upbringing, subjective choice, THEORY, nothing to get blown up about. Do they really think the world has to end at Megiddo ? Why do they think they have a monopoly on gods ?
HELLO: your gods would want you to peacefully CO-EXIST.
Posted by: doubting_thomas | Jun 23, 2007 10:49:47 AM
Terror this and terror that.
Before 9-11, I had no idea that so many of my countryman were such weenies. They are actually worried about something that is less likely to kill them than lightning.
Posted by: boka | Jun 23, 2007 10:58:02 AM
Terror attacks will continue all the time except U.S. and the EU countries stopping to kill the poor countries man and women,stopping to rob the oil source from the poor land.
Posted by: jakie | Jun 24, 2007 4:41:19 AM
They try to pick one country off at a time. First Spain, then England and now Germany.
Like the Nazis ,who first came for the Gypsies and then the Jews, by the time they came for the Christians there was no one left to protest. Fascists always try to divide and conquer and world conquest remains their goal.
Posted by: concerned | Jun 24, 2007 4:52:56 PM
America was founded by people that endured extreme hardships, deprivation, and death in order to have a place to call home in which they could practice the religion of their choosing without persecution from the government.
Why can we not honor this and let all of us co-exist in the United States of America and in all of the World.
No-one needs the New World Order (which is based only on greed, wealth, and power for the extremely intelligent and wealthy) to create the ultimate happy hunting grounds for the people that work for a living and are too dumb (according to advocates of the New World Order) to know what they want or need.
It is time, once again, for the majority to decide which rules prevail. Stop the Congress from making rulings based on the musings of minority misfits, such as Madeline O'Hare, that are responsible for the loss of freedoms to everyone.
Posted by: Joe Hollinger | Jun 24, 2007 5:49:00 PM
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