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German police arrest Syrian terror suspect who 'bought bomb-making materials'
Perhaps one day this obstreperous gentleman will be publicly identified, and we’ll be allowed to know whether he had arrived legally, whether his asylum request had finally been rejected... all the usual stuff.
[DW] German authorities say they've arrested a Syrian observed in chat networks seeking ingredients to make the explosive TAPT. When and where the suspect, allegedly with Islamist leanings, was planning an attack is unclear.

Special federal police units detained a Syrian man in his Berlin apartment early Tuesday on a charge of preparing a text aimed at perpetrating a terror act endangering the state, prosecutors said.

Federal prosecutors said the suspect had begun to procure the "requisite components and chemicals for the construction of an bomb" with the intention of killing as many people as possible.

"This was intended for detonation at an unknown point in time and at an unknown location in Germany," they added.

In August he had purchased hydrogen peroxide and acetone ‐ two chemicals used to synthesize the high explosive TATP.

UNDER OBSERVATION
Berlin prosecutors said that since early 2019, the Syrian had been observed nine times in an electronic message group affiliated with the terror militia "Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
" (IS).

Topics had included instructions on plastic explosives, packet and magnet bombs, and booby trap-explosives, followed by Kalashnikov K-47 guns and machine pistols.

German public broadcaster ARD said initial tips had been given by an unidentified foreign secret service to Germany's domestic intelligence agency (BfV).

EMPLOYED AS CLEANER
The suspect was employed as a cleaner at one of Berlin's primary schools and had been under observation since early this year, according to Berlin city-state's interior senator Andreas Geisel.

The Berliner Zeitung daily said the suspect lived near the town hall in Berlin's district of Schöneberg.

Before working at the school, he had been employed at Berlin's renowned Bode Museum.
Posted by: trailing wife 2019-11-20
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