Germany says foiled "massive attacks" on U.S. sites
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German security services foiled a plan by Islamist militants to carry out "massive bomb attacks" against U.S. installations in Germany and arrested the three men behind it, officials said on Wednesday.
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British security services thwarted planned Sept. 11-style terror attacks on Heathrow Airport and skyscrapers in Canary Wharf, a financial district of London, according to two media reports.
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Foiled terrorist plots, according to the Director of National Intelligence and President Bush's speech on Wednesday:
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German police launched a major operation at the US military airport at Spangdahlem after US forces received threats by telephone, police in the west German city of Trier said on Tuesday.
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The Azerbaijan government today said they had thwarted a 'large-scale horrifying terror attack' by Islamist radicals against targets believed to include the US and UK embassies in the capital, Baku.
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German authorities have stepped up  vigilance against possible terror attacks on German soil, an  interior ministry spokesman said on Friday.
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In a Sept. 5 story about the arrest of three terror suspects in Germany, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung specifically mentioned the U.S.
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(InfoWorld) - The German government has agreed to implement a sweeping set of security measures aimed at protecting critical IT infrastructure in the country. The measures are part the National Plan for Protection of Communications Infrastructure approved more than two years ago by the German federal government and applicable to all federal departments and agencies. The move to implement the plan follows last week's German media report about continuedÂ efforts by Chinese hackers to plant Trojan horse programsÂ on government computers. Security experts from Germany's Federal Office for Information Security and Federal Data Protection Office discovered in May Trojan horse programs in computers used in several government ministries, including the Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of Economics and the Research and Development Ministry, as well as Chancellor Angela Merkel's office, and say theÂ attacks by Chinese hackersÂ continue, the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel reported on Aug. 27. The IT security policies that the federal government will implement have been developed in cooperation with more than 30 large German companies that offer critical infrastructure services such as electricity, natural gas, banking, and telecommunications, and depend on secure and reliable communication systems to operate their networks. The companies have also agreed to implement the IT security measures within their organizations. With Islamic radicals targeting German troops and others working in Afghanistan in recent weeks, government officials, including Federal Interior Minister Wolfgang SchÃ¤uble, point to a heightened threat level that makes IT security an issue of increasing urgency. Additional information about the IT security plan is available on the federal government's Web site. Â
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New evidence has emerged that high-profile al Qaeda prisoners may have been secretly held at a U.S. base in Germany, a British legal charity representing U.S. detainees said on Friday.
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German authorities concede only luck prevented terrorists from blowing up two trains last month &#151; an admission that has set off a push for stronger security measures, including more video cameras, a new anti-terrorism database and even armed marshals.
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The US director of intelligence says eavesdropping helped foil a bomb attack by suspected Islamists in Germany.
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German authorities called for increased  vigilance on Friday against possible terror attacks, saying the  kind of threat detected before the September 11, 2001, attacks  on the United States had resurfaced.
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Germany's justice minister plans to extend the country's anti-terror laws. In the future, preparing an attack or receiving explicit training for a violent act will be punishable by up to 10 years in prison. The worldwide threat of terrorist attacks includes Germany, according to the country's Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries. "We cannot exclude a terrorist attack in our country," Zypries told reporters in Berlin on Tuesday, Sept. 18. "As regrettable as this realization is, it is unfortunately by no means new."
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German authorities believe Al Qaeda is targeting Germany for possible attacks and that German Islamists have been traveling to Pakistan for "terrorist training", a top security official told a newspaper.
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Department of Defense officials announced this week the return of properties across Germany to the German government, part of a decade-long effort to trim America's post-Cold War military posture here.
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BERLIN, Sept. 6 -- Authorities said Thursday that they are investigating at least seven more people suspected of aiding a multinational cell of Islamic militants plotting to bomb American interests in Germany, including two who may have trained at camps in Pakistan.
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Three men have been arrested for planning attacks on the U.S. military base in Ramstein and Frankfurt's international airport, a German broadcaster reported Wednesday.