Terror arrests in Germany
German authorities arrested three men who planned to carry out massive, casualty-heavy bombings against U.S. institutions and other targets in Germany that could have been more deadly than the Madrid and London attacks, officials said Wednesday.German Chancellor Angela Merkel praised security authorities for their “great success,” adding the arrest showed that “the terrorist threat in Germany is not abstract, but very real.”
The three men, two Germans and a Turkish citizen ages 22 to 28, were planning “massive bomb attacks” that could have been more deadly than the Madrid and London bombings and surely would have killed “many, many people,” Federal Prosecutor Monika Harms said Wednesday in the southwestern German city of Karlsruhe.
The three men planned to simultaneously detonate self-made explosives loaded in cars at “several locations throughout the country,” Harms said. As possible targets, she named “discotheques, pubs and airports frequented by Americans.”
Obviously, the foiling of these attacks is a very good thing, but it is also a reminder that the threat remains real and signifigant.
