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| Terror suspect plotted plane attack on Bundestag |
| 2011-06-19 |
| An Austrian terror suspect arrested this week was plotting to crash a plane into the German Bundestag, a report said on Saturday as officials said a German with links to the suspect was detained. The suspect, who has been named only as Thomas al-J. and is a 25-year-old Austrian national who converted to Islam, was arrested Wednesday in his Vienna flat on suspicion of recruiting for terror training camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan and of financing a terrorist organisation -- the German Taliban Mujahideen (DTM). Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung reported on Saturday that the suspect had been plotting to crash a plane into the German parliament in Berlin, the Bundestag, and had been training on a flight simulator. Austria's interior ministry also said on Saturday that a German terrorism suspect had been arrested in Austria on May 31 and had links with the alleged recruiter. The 26-year-old German, originally from Berlin, is in the process of being extradited to Germany, where he is suspected of being a member of a terrorist organisation, ministry spokesman Rudolf Gollia said. Three other suspects who were arrested at Vienna airport Wednesday apparently on their way to a terrorist training camp in Pakistan were released from custody that evening. Police said there were no grounds to detain them further. Austria last year passed a law that foresees up to five years in prison for any person attending a terror camp abroad. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #1 has been named only as Thomas al-J How odd, I suspect the J is Jurgen... the al is like von... so we're looking at a Thomas Van Jurgen. |
| Posted by: Zombie Hillary Lover 2011-06-19 06:09 |