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German train bombs may have terrorist link | |
2006-08-19 | |
(Xinhua) -- Two suitcases containing bombs found on German trains last month were very likely to have been part of an attempted act of terrorism, a German investigator said on Friday. The daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported Friday, quoting security experts, that the amount of explosives contained in the bombs would have had the same devastating impact as last year's London underground bombings, which killed more than 50 people. The bombs, made with gas canisters, were found on July 31 on trains in Dortmund and Koblenz, said the Chief of the German Criminal Police Office (BKA) Joerg Ziercke in a press conference in Wiesbaden. They were apparently supposed to explode 10 minutes before the trains' arrival at the stations, Ziercke said.
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Posted by:Fred |
#11 Right, 6 - it's a Norfolk & Western (US) Class J 4-8-4. I believe one of them still runs today, and that might be its' picture. Very near the pinnicle of steam locomotive technology. |
Posted by: Bobby 2006-08-19 21:57 |
#10 "may" ??? |
Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever) 2006-08-19 20:51 |
#9 Didn't take 'em long to figure that out, did it? :-) |
Posted by: gorb 2006-08-19 16:09 |
#8 German train bombs may have terrorist link The Arabic shopping list they found in one of the suitcases was a dead giveaway. |
Posted by: Zenster 2006-08-19 15:18 |
#7 Purty train, but I don't think it's Cherman. |
Posted by: 6 2006-08-19 15:14 |
#6 For all that's worth, bombs made fom gas canisters - filled up with liquid explosives, and possibly shrapnels (? The french police had a detail about nails and bolts given to the msm, along with phony sketches, so it would focus on it and let them work alone) - was what the gia used in the 1995 Paris subway bombing wave. |
Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-08-19 14:52 |
#5 A bomb on a train in the Rhine Gorge would probably close everything on one side of the river for hours, if not days. There are some places along the river where there's barely room for the rail line and a road. Since the bombs were found in Dortmund and Koblenz, it's more likely that segment (from Koblenz to Dortmund) was targeted, where the areas are a little flatter and the Rhine riverbed runs through rolling hills. Glad it didn't work - I've ridden the trains through that area several times. |
Posted by: Old Patriot 2006-08-19 13:51 |
#4 No kidding? |
Posted by: gromgoru 2006-08-19 10:08 |
#3 The Netherlands did used to own Indonesia, after all. They brought back lots of cooks and such (who later brought all their friends and relations, of course) when they decolonized. |
Posted by: trailing wife 2006-08-19 09:53 |
#2 Koblenz, trains, gas canisters....spooky. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2006-08-19 05:33 |
#1 German weekly Focus sayz one of the suspects looks Indonesian an might be linked to The Netherlands. A number of Indonesian extremists seems to be living there. German authorities will expand the search to this group. |
Posted by: Crolush Flomonter7869 2006-08-19 03:29 |