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German police arrest Russian man over alleged terror bomb plot
[IsraelTimes] Suspect with ties to Berlin Christmas market attack allegedly intended to 'maim or kill the greatest possible number of people'German police commandos tossed in the clink I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! Wednesday a Russian suspected Islamic terrorist accused of having plotted an explosives attack in the country. Identified only as 31-year-old Magomed-Ali C., he was allegedly an accomplice of Clement Baur, who was arrested in Marseilles shortly before the 2017 French elections accused of plotting an imminent attack. The Russian man "is suspected of having plotted, together with Clement B., detained in La Belle France, a serious act of violence against the state," German federal prosecutors said in a statement. Commandos of the elite police unit GSG 9 stormed the man’s Berlin apartment in an operation which prosecutors said was linked to the Baur case. "No explosives were found during today’s search operations," federal prosecutors’ spokeswoman Frauke Koehler said. Baur and another suspect, who had both pledged allegiance to 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.... group, were arrested in April 2017 in a Marseilles apartment.
The German prosecutors said that Magomed-Ali C. and Baur planned an explosives attack "at an unknown location in Germany, meant to maim or kill the greatest possible number of people." For this purpose, Magomed-Ali C. had kept in his Berlin flat "a substantial amount" of TATP since at least October 2016. However their plan was foiled by an unspecified German "preventive police operation," which led the accomplices to split up and Baur to travel to La Belle France, said the prosecutors. TERROR CONNECTION Prosecutors added Wednesday that a phone number used by Baur had been found saved in a mobile phone belonging to Anis Amri, the perpetrator of a December 2016 truck rampage at a Berlin Christmas market that left 12 people dead. "We now know that Anis Amri was in contact with Clement B.," prosecutors’ spokeswoman Koehler said. What’s more, Amri and Magomed-Ali C. both regularly visited a Berlin mosque known as Fussilet 33 that authorities later closed down over fears it was a meeting place for terrorists.
a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... Koehler added there was "no indication" either that Magomed-Ali C. and Baur were involved in planning the truck attack, or that Amri helped them with their explosives scheme. Since the Christmas market rampage ‐ Germany’s bloodiest in recent years ‐ the country has been targeted repeatedly by attacks with radical Islamist motives. Posted by: trailing wife 2018-08-23 |
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