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| Germany Expects Attacks Like Britain's Says Top Police Official |
| 2007-07-03 |
| (AKI) - Terrorist attacks similar to the failed attacks last week in British capital, London, and at Glasgow airport in Scotland, could occur in Germany, federal police chief Konrad Freiberger said on Monday. There are some 100 individuals living in Germany who may have "the intention and the capability" to carry out such attacks, Freiberger told the Passauer Neue Presse newspaper. He underscored the importance of strengthening security measures to thwart terror plots, the chances of which he said have increased since the German army's participation in peacekeeping missions in Afghanistan. Germany's interior minister Wolfgang Schaeuble in a TV interview on Sunday called for the number of closed circuit television cameras surveilling airports and other major traffic areas to be increased. Some opposition politicians have however criticised the plan, saying that widespread closed-circuit surveillance had not prevented the attempted attacks in Britain. Seven suspects have been detained in Britain following the attempted carbombing of Glasgow airport on Saturday - when fuel-loaded jeep was rammed into the terminal, bursting into flames - and two failed car bombings in London discovered last Friday. Two Mercedes containing petrol, gas cylinders and nails were found outside a nightclub in London's Haymarket district and in a nearby street. Police are linking the failed bombings and the UK remains on critical alert. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 I am not so worried about 7/7/7. The jihadis have shown, if anything, they are not bothered about pesky things like symbolic anniversaries. What they have shown - especially al-Qaeda proper - is a determination to attack the same targets again and again. I would be more concerned about former targets than former dates. Though working out their priorities is difficult even for those of us paying attention. Targeting "Ladies Night" is so barbaric, so alien, to our sensibilities it is difficult to fathom let alone anticipate. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-07-03 10:32 |
| #5 German troops out of Iraq, now! |
| Posted by: Maggie Sloter8904 2007-07-03 10:32 |
| #4 Only Muslims can acquire the motivation to murder innocents, in order to advance a political cause. Weather Underground Irish Republican Army Shining Path Red Army Faction Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia Real IRA Red Brigades Japanese Red Army Lord's Resistance Army Symbionese Liberation Army Black Panthers New Peoples Army Bader-Meinhoff Group United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia I'm sure I left a few out... |
| Posted by: Pappy 2007-07-03 10:25 |
| #3 Hey don't sweat it! The German governemnt have the will and laws to go after a dangerous religious group. OK so it's the scientologists, but I'm sure they'll start dealing with them soon... |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2007-07-03 09:13 |
| #2 There are some 100 individuals living in Germany who may have "the intention and the capability" to carry out such attacks Is that all we have 20X that at least thanks to Mr Blair!!!!!! |
| Posted by: Paul 2007-07-03 06:54 |
| #1 Anyone can buy or steal cars. Anyone can buy gasoline. Anyone can buy matches. Anyone can drive through the flimsy drop gates or climb over the unsecured fences that provide nominal guards to our petrochemical refineries. Only Muslims can acquire the motivation to murder innocents, in order to advance a political cause. But any majority can oppress and deport a Muslim minority. As I wrote yesterday, 7-7-7 is approaching. As is the anniversary - Aug 12 - of the collapse of the 1350 year old string of Caliphates. Muslims will have taken the Gas-Bomb jihad not as a lesson in failure, but of success in operating under the radar. I suspect - based only on the supreme symbolic value of 777 - that something huge will happen next month. If it does, then God help any Western leader who points the blame at our foreign policy, while whitewashing genocidal jihadism. We can talk of al-Qaeda's manual of jihad. However, that is only a research text based on the principal authority of all Muslim terror: the Koran. |
| Posted by: McZoid 2007-07-03 03:24 |