Suspected Islamic Terrorists Arrested For Planning Bomb Attacks On US Sites In Germany

AP:

Three suspected Islamic terrorists from an al-Qaida-influenced group nursing "profound hatred of U.S. citizens" were arrested on suspicious of plotting imminent, massive bomb attacks on U.S. facilities in Germany, prosecutors said Wednesday.

German Federal Prosecutor Monika Harms said the three, two of whom were German converts to Islam, had trained at camps in Pakistan run by the Islamic Jihad Union, a group based in Central Asia. They had obtained some 1,500 pounds of hydrogen peroxide for making explosives.

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[HumeSkeptic]

This is exactly why the President is planning to attack Iran. Venezuela, you're next.

[accountability]

Don't they have to get Syria before Venezuela?

well, Hugo is pissing them off.

[HumeSkeptic]

Syria is a good target, but no oil. Syria must wait.

[sugarmoes]

bush: "seeeeee???? it's still 'over there'!!! told ya so!!! neener neeener neener!!!"

i can't wait to hear the spin about how:

a) this reeeeeeeeeally shows that terrorism is on the decline. "see??? it just declined!!!"

and

b) how the preemptive illegal war in iraq was responsible for this arrest.

seems like europeans are less bitches than a lot of americans (who still and did worship bush)

[StoptheNazis]

I recall a few years back when I lived in Luxembourg some pyscho had taken a school of children hostage in Luxembourg.

The Luxembourg police called in the Germans to help them.

The psycho wanted to talk to the press so the German police sent the press out with a photograph­er.....the photographer asked the hostage taker if they could take his photo for the papers. They guy said. 'Sure', Then they shot him.

The gun was built into the camera....­.LOL

Germans don't fuck around.

[CyrusBeaucephus]

I knew a guy that had a gun built into his wallet so he could shoot would-be muggers. To me that sounded like a good way to shoot your balls off by accident while sitting on the crapper

[accountability]

StoptheNazis
Germans don't fuck around.

Damn, those outfits alone would make me surrender.

And I don't mean in the good way.

[CyrusBeaucephus]

Bush always does the opposite of what he says. 'Nation Building' really means Nation destroying, No Child Left Behind really means tons of Kids Left Behind, Conservation=more pollution, Culture of Life means culture of death and torture, Homeland security means the governamnt can make you dissappear into some secret prison with no formal charges at whim, etc. etc. ad nauseum

What if we spent a trillion dollars on more border security, better port security, more training for covert operations, better linguistic capabilities, fast response strikes, etc.. that we would be safer than having blown the money in Iraq, while al Queada has already regrouped to surpass pre 911 strength????

Suprisingly there is almost no support among wingnuts for the above-mentioned common sense security measures--they want to moderate a civil war in Iraq instead.

Knowing your enemy and being able to infiltrate terror cells requires trained personnel and big budgets. Police and Intel work is the only effective way to stop terror, ansa has been proven over and over in other countries. WTF?!? Republicans are idiots. And I love how they say people like me sympathise with terrorists. Yeah right, everyone I know wants 'em caught, charged, taken to court, convicted and imprisoned. The good old fashioned way. Instead we get Gitmo where half or more were just rounded up to get a cash bounty, and have done nothing. What a crock of shit. All you have to do is read some of the moronic posts by idiots like BJ and his Freeper pals to realize how far they have their heads up their asses. Please vote and please write your Congressman. The War on Terror needs to be effective and efficient.

[HumeSkeptic]

Did the Germans and Danes suspend/bypass their laws to arrest these people ? -Andydp

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Good point. And I bet they never considered invading Iran either in retaliation of the planned bombings.

On the other hand, their approach will never yield any oil.

[CyrusBeaucephus]

Wow a terror attack stopped by ordinary police work while life goes on as it always has. If that happened in America we would probably use it as an excuse to put Democratic politicians under surveillance and as a justification to invade Venezuela

Its a good thing the rest of the world aren't a bunch of fearful pansies like American Neocons are

[ornery]

News flash: they already are under surveillance.

[sugarmoes]

or yield a bonanza of bullshit contracts for work either never performed or so shoddily performed that the "structure" would actually be better if it simply wasn't there in the first place i.e. the construction had never been performed.

good money bein a bush crony... if you can stay outta prison long enough to spend it.

[exflatlander]

On the other hand, their approach will never yield any oil.

Neither has ours.

[Andydp]

Just random musings:
Its a very large world out there populated with very bad people.
Did the Germans and Danes suspend/bypass their laws to arrest these people ?
Is it just me or are other countries arresting "real" terrorists while the US arrests money laundering Imams and pizza makers ?
Yes, we have to be vigilant, yes we have to be ruthless sometimes. Remember the words of Ben Franklin:
Those who are willing to give up some rights for security will find they soon have neither.

[HumeSkeptic]

As we have always said, good police work beats illegally invading other countries, as far as catching terrorists and other criminals is considered.

Of course, you don't get any oil doing it that way.

[StoptheNazis]

Cheney and Bush are livid....t­heir excuse for attacking Iran is gone.

They are regrouping to come up with something else FAST!!

[HumeSkeptic]

The need no stinkin' excuse. They invent reasons, out of thin air, those fucking fascists.

[accountability]

StoptheNazis
Cheney and Bush are livid....t­heir excuse for attacking Iran is gone.

They are regrouping to come up with something else FAST!!

Maybe they'll try Germany.

Gotta fight 'em over there...ya­dayadayada­yada

[exflatlander]

So. Does this mean we now have to invade Germany to make sure we're fighting them there and not here? Or Great Britain? Or Spain? Italy? Dang! They just won't sit still in Iraq for us, will they? That's right. These guys trained in Afghanistan. Remember Afghanistan? The place with no oil? When will these silly jihadists remember that they're only supposed to fight us in oil-rich countries where we can "protect" oil fields?

[HumeSkeptic]

concerned, not considered. Although, considered works almost as well, sort of.

[pillowcase]

This point should be hammered over and over again until the people of this country understand that diligent police work keeps us safe from terrorists, not the military. But our fearless Leader just doesn't get it. Just another example of the Bush administration spewing BS instead of actually doing the things necessary to keep us safe. When the next real terrorist attack succeeds, and it will, maybe people will realize what a total incompetent Bush has been.

[exflatlander]

Europeans have been dealing with terrorist attacks for decades. Too bad the Shrub was too much of a Rambo to consult with them about how to protect their people. This German arrest shows that a country a LOT closer to the Middle East with open borders can nab terrorists simply by keeping their eyes and ears open - and without stripping citizens of their rights.Rem­ember when Condi said,"Who would have expected an attack by commercial planes into a building?" (Close paraphrase) Well, the French had already thwarted such an attack on the Eiffel Tower early in the 90s. But we can't learn anything from them; they're the FRENCH!

[StoptheNazis]

Damn!! Wipe out Ramstein and Rhein Main? Both shitholes I have been stationed at......

[jashu51]

"Pak-pak-pak. Pak-pak-is-tan". McCain can try those lyrics out.

[Destin]

I agree, and you're the first I've seen so far that even noticed that this plot originated in good old Pakistan, staunch US ally and a country that Bush loves to kiss the ass of. Bush is about as gullible as they come. All the attacks, and potential attacks, including Madrid and London, were all done via Pakistan and in alot of instances, helped along by the Pakistani ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence).

So what's Bush gonna do?? Attack Iran instead and blame everything on them. LMFAO!!

[SmellyOne]

From Yahoo! News:

"The three had no steady work and were drawing unemployment benefits while their main occupation was the plot, officials said. "This group distinguishes itself through its profound hatred of U.S. citizens," Ziercke said."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070905/ap_on_re_eu/germany_terror


"Profound hatred of U.S. citizens." That includes the HuffBots.

[HumeSkeptic]

Profound hatred of U.S. citizens." That includes the HuffBots. - SmellyOne

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Imagine that !

They seem to have a lot in common with the Right Wing of USA.

[SmellyOne]

I don't think the Right Wing of USA even know that the HuffBots exists.

[StoptheNazis]

Perhaps they had been reading the posts of LindaMart and other assorted Nazis.... that will just about make anyone have profound hatred.

[exflatlander]

That's right. Before Bush there was a serious lack of anti-Americanism, but now, thanks to his enlightened warfare tactics, EVERYBODY hates us. Well, he succeeded as something anyway.

[StoptheNazis]

I see Pakistan is involved ....time to attack Pakistan.

I don't see anything about Iran....th­ere must be some mistake.

Cheney is pissed off because that was his excuse for attacking Iran... He is sending a letter of reprimand to German security officials.

[Grunty1]

Afghanistan was involved the first time, that didn't stop us from attacking the wrong country.

[HumeSkeptic]

It is well known that the Germans were trained in Pakistan with Iran's help. Besides, Iran is the next Nazi Germany, regardless.

Onward to Iran, Christian Soldiers!

[HumeSkeptic]

This is another result of the surge. Without the surge, these would have never been caught.

[HumeSkeptic]

This place is for rent.

[HumeSkeptic]

Where' the Capt'n? I'm getting concerned.

[ornery]

Speak of the devil and the devil will appear.

[SmellyOne]

Well, without the surge the Anbar province would probably still be under al Qaeda control.

[Grunty1]

PS: nothing to do with the Surge.

[HumeSkeptic]

No, it wouldn't be, you sweet gullible one.

[CyrusBeaucephus]

I'll let Cenk Uygur(Sounds like a Muslim don't SmellyOne) bitch slap you, since he does it so well:

our strategy in the Anbar province has NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING to do with the surge. It doesn't involve more U.S. troops. It involves less U.S. troops!

Can someone please use their minds? Has anyone thought for more than three seconds about what our strategy in Anbar is? It is to turn the Sunni insurgency from our enemies to our allies -- so that they do the fighting for us! We do not have more troops fighting in the Anbar province now, we have less.

[prscnt1]

You are true to your name, SmellyOne!

There was no al-queda in Iraq. What you have are middle eastern thugs (like charlatans of jews) who were always there, and they moved in the power vacuum created by bushboy. So, Anbar Sunnis will join US in controlling the thugs and then turn on Shia, Kurds, and unfortunately our soldiers, while bushboy will be talking al-queda, al-queda, mine enemy's enemy my friend till he goes in his grave.

[gcallaghan]

The key question at this stage is whether each of these terr'ists already had shoes or if the undercover cops were to supply them with shoes and weapons.

[ExposingCommunists]

A "101" COMMENTS ON TERRORISTS WHO WERE GOING TO BLOW UP U.S. INTERESTS AND THEN "1000PLUS" FOR CRAIG WHO IS NOW GETTING REAR ENDED BY HUFFERS?

WAR AGAINST REPUBLICANS IS FAR MORE IMPORTANT THAN FIGHTING AGAINST TERRORISTS WHO WOULD LOVE TO CUT YOUR HEAD OFF IF THEY HAD A CHANCE?

[CyrusBeaucephus]

Nothing your Party does has reduced terror. Your tactics are moronic. Al Queada is stronger now than before 911. This is per the most recent National Intelligence Estimate. The Bush strategy is useless. Our borders are wide open, and they have poured money and lives into policing the Civil War of a country that never was a threat to America. Save you stupid posturing for the next talk-radio call in. Another false statement that Your Praty loves to make is that we are at war with all of Islam. Excepting of course our good allies like Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan, which is where almost all of the would-be terrorists have trained. I grew up next door to Muslim immigrants. They were good Americans, and would never support terror. most are like that. Why not focus on the small percent that realyy are terrorists and round them up using proven Law Enforcement techniques, you fuckin moron???

[dadw5boys]

Well this be the one thing CHENY needs to get rid of FICA COURT? Freewheeling wiretapps?