[AnNahar] German police have arrested five Tajik nationals on suspicion that they were members of an 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....
group terror cell that had been planning attacks on US forces stationed in Germany, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Four of the suspects were arrested after dawn raids on Wednesday targeting several apartments and six other locations in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Another Tajik national was previously detained.
Based on the fact that the four were subsequently arrested, the first gentleman can be assumed to have sung like a bird. The five were also allegedly planning attacks on individuals they deemed critical of Islam, prosecutors in the city of Karlsruhe said.
The suspects -- named as Azizjon B., Muhammadali G., Farhodshoh K., Sunatullokh K. and Ravsan B. -- are accused of joining the Islamic State group in January 2019 and initially planning to carry out attacks in Tajikistan.
They then switched their focus to Germany after receiving instructions from two high-ranking IS leaders in Syria and Afghanistan, prosecutors said.
The five men had been planning to attack targets including US air bases and had already ordered bomb parts online, as well as stocking up on firearms and ammunition.
They also planned an liquidation attempt on a person they believed had expressed Islam-critical views in public, and had already begun spying on the intended victim, prosecutors said.
Two of the suspects are also accused of travelling to Albania to carry out an liquidation attempt in exchange for $40,000. However,
the hip bone's connected to the leg bone...
the project failed and they returned to Germany.
Germany's security services estimate there are around 11,000 Islamic snuffies in Germany, some 680 of whom are deemed particularly dangerous and capable of using violence -- a five-fold increase since 2013.
The arrests, by tactical arms teams, were made early on Wednesday. Apartments, as well as six other locations, were targeted in the dawn raids in the western German cities of Essen, Neuss and Siegen, as well as the district of Heinsberg.
The suspects, who are due to be charged with membership of a terrorist organization, were reported to have been between the ages of 24 and 32.
German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel reported that the men's alleged leader, a 30-year-old Tajik man identified only as Ravsan B., has been in prison on firearms charges since last year.
Prosecutors said the men swore allegiance to IS in early 2019, and that they had contacts with high-ranking figures from the group in both Syria and Afghanistan. 
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