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Syrian, Iraqi militants said to have planned New Year attack in Munich
[REUTERS] Germany received a tip hours before midnight that Lions of Islam from Iraq and Syria were planning New Year attacks in Munich but police could not find the suspects and are not even sure if they exist or are in the country, the city's police chief said on Friday.Hubertus Andrae told a news conference that German officials had received a "very concrete" tip that suicide kabooms were planned on New Year's Eve at two train stations. Police closed the central and Pasing stations about an hour before midnight, and reopened them hours later. "We received names. We can't say if they are in Munich or in fact in Germany," Andrae said. "At this point we don't know if these names are correct, if these people even exist, or where they might be. If we knew this we would be a clear step further. We have no information that these people are in Munich or in Germany," he added. The alarm came as Europe entered the New Year under a state of heightened alert, seven weeks after Islamist Lions of Islam killed 130 people in shootings and suicide kaboom  s across Gay Paree.Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said the Munich tip, which media reports said came from French intelligence, indicated that the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... murderous Moslem group was behind the planned operation. Herrmann told news hounds later on Friday that the police presence at the train stations had been reduced. "We all know that there is a high risk of attacks in Europe and also here in Germany and Bavaria. But we don't have a concrete indication that there will be an attack today or tomorrow at a specific location," he said. Thomas de Maiziere, interior minister in the federal government of Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... , said: "The situation in Europe and also in Germany remains serious in the New Year. Security forces anticipate the high threat of international terrorism to persist." Police said they had received information that five to seven jacket wallahs were planning to take part in the attack. Posted by: Fred 2016-01-02 |
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