German police have discovered another explosive device designed to derail trains in Berlin - the third in two days. Two of the devices were found on Monday - one on a high-speed line and another near Berlin's main station.
The third was discovered on Tuesday on the track of a suburban railway line south of the German capital.
A previously unknown left-wing group, calling itself the Hekla Reception Committee, said it planted the devices. The explosive devices are made of bottles of flammable liquids attached to fuses.
The discovery of the third suspected fire-bomb follows the explosion on Monday of a device on the high-speed line between Hamburg and Berlin, where trains reach speeds of 200km/h. There were no casualties, but rail traffic was disrupted.
Another device was discovered on Monday before it went off at the mouth of a tunnel leading to Berlin's main station. It consisted of seven bottles, filled with flammable liquid, bundled together and linked to a fuse.
The leftist Hekla Reception Committee said in an online statement that it had planted the devices in protest at the presence of German troops in Afghanistan. Police said they were not familiar with Hekla, which is also the name of an Icelandic volcano.
Germany has about 5,000 soldiers deployed in Afghanistan as part of Nato's mission, most of them in the north of the country.
Last November, Berlin's transport system was severely disrupted when signalling cables were set on fire. There have also been arson attacks on a number of expensive cars in the German capital. But these latest attacks on high-speed railway lines take the potential destruction to a new level of danger.
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If it were right-wingers doing it, German and international media would be all over it. But, it's those lovable leftist terrorists, so it's the bottom of the column on page G24 and the terrorists get a sympathetic hearing for their viewpoint.
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I get the feeling that anyone who effs with the trains in Germany will get it. I saw a protest by nougetnazis at a station, basically all well and good protest unless someone rushed the station where I saw NFL worthy tackles and smiling eyebrow raising escorts...somewhere.
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F*cking for virginity. Hey I thought the left was into peace and love, make love not war, yada, yada, yada. So we are back into the Bill Ayers-Bernardine Dohrn Weatherdork era?
[An Nahar] A Finnish police probe into terrorist funding and recruitment has uncovered at least two more suspects, police said Tuesday, just over a month after making two arrests in raids in Helsinki.
"Police suspect at least two new people of funding terrorism in addition to the earlier two suspects," the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) said in a statement.
The NBI said one of the new suspects was a Finnish citizen and that both were currently outside the country, although not believed to be fleeing authorities.
On September 7, Finnish police tossed in the clink a man and a woman on suspicion of funding and recruiting for overseas terrorist organizations, while the daily Ilta-Sanomat quoted unidentified police sources saying both were Finnish citizens of Somali origin.
Intelligence officials launched the probe in 2009 after a routine police check caught their attention.
"The case involves many individuals, some of whom are abroad... during the course of the investigation many witnesses have been interviewed and requests for international legal help have been made," the NBI said.
Police added that the woman who was tossed in the clink in September had been freed but was ordered not to leave the country.
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Instead of permitting a huge terror industry to develop, it would appear the Finns are going about their anit-terrorism program in the correct manner, that being to follow the money. We not only ingnore the money, but the sponsoring state as well. Even more troubling, we continue to fund the state.
[USA Today] Ukraine's former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Tuesday was sentenced to 7 years in prison on charges of abuse of office in signing a gas deal with Russia, a verdict immediately condemned by the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... as politically motivated.
Tymoshenko, the driving force of the 2004 pro-democracy Orange Revolution and now the nation's top opposition leader, denounced the trial as rigged by President Viktor Yanukovych in order to get rid of a popular political opponent.
The case has galvanized the opposition. A crowd of several dozen angry Tymoshenko supporters clashed following the verdict with helmeted riot policed who flooded the city center, but they were quickly pushed away and it was unclear if the protests would last.
Judge Rodion Kireyev declared Tymoshenko, 50, guilty of exceeding her authority as premier when she signed a natural gas imports contract with Russia in 2009. He also banned her from occupying government posts for three years after the completion of her prison term and fined her 1.5 billion hryvna ($190 million or euro140 million) for the damages her actions cost the state.
Tymoshenko, clad in a beige dress and wearing her trademark blond braid around her head, has called the trial a "lynching." She appeared unfazed by the verdict and began addressing news hounds in the courtroom without waiting for Kireyev to finish reading the lengthy ruling.
She said Yanukovych wrote the verdict himself and compared it to the show trials and horrific purges by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.
"The year 1937 has returned to Ukraine with this verdict and all the repression of citizens," she said. "As for me, be sure that I will not stop my fight even for a minute. I will always be with you as long as it is necessary."
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If she has $190 million, she certainly belongs in jail.
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