Bloomberg reports Germany Foils `Massive' Bomb Attack: "German police arrested three people suspected of planning 'massive'' terrorist attacks on U.S. and other targets in the country, preventing the deaths of 'many, many people', the Chief Federal Prosecutor Monika Harms said."
Doesn't that sound like another 9/11 to you? Here are more details from the article.
As part of 41 raids by police anti-terrorist units, three men (2 Germans and 1 Turk) of a local cell of Jihad Union, a terrorist group claimed to have ties to al Qaeda, were captured in Westphalia. They had 1200 lbs of "peroxide-based liquid explosives" and planned to attack Frankfurt airport (Europe's 3rd busiest) and a U.S. military base in Ramstein which is the headquarters for the U.S. Air Forces in Europe and a NATO installation. "This plot was still in its very early stages.''
Doesn't sound quite so bad now does it? And it seems police can be effective at stopping terrorism, it doesn't have to be a military matter.
Also reported, "Danish police arrested eight 'militant Islamists' alleged to have al-Qaeda links and who were suspected of plotting a 'major' attack, the country's intelligence service said yesterday." While there were similarities to the German group, no direct links have been found yet.
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