EUROPE:  Germany Wakes Up to Terror Threat
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BERLIN, Aug 23 (IPS) - A man who attempted to bomb a German train has been  caught but his accomplice is still at large, waking Germany up to  the reality that terror attacks can strike at home.
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The European Commission is to draw up plans to bolster co-operation in the fight against terror.
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An upsurge in far-right attacks is causing concern in Germany as the soccer tournament nears
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The risk of terror attacks in Europe is high and is increasing, France's leading anti-terrorism judge said, warning that a recent alliance between al-Qaida and a North African terrorist group poses a grave threat.
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The leader of Germany's foreign intelligence agency warned Tuesday night of an increased likelihood of a major terror attack by al-Qaida in the weeks before the American presidential election.
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Britain's struggle to contain Muslim extremism points up a chilling trend across Europe: the rise of radical Islam, and with it, a willingness among a small but dangerous minority of young people to answer the call to jihad.
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Islamic militants threatened to attack Germany and Austria unless the two European nations break ranks with the U.S. and withdraw their personnel from Afghanistan, according to a Web statement.Comment
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Germany, fearful of being the next major target for Islamic terrorists, is edging away from its deep aversion to intrusive and harsh enforcement tactics.
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The threat of terrorism in Europe remains very high due to anger over the Iraqi war and the growing influence of North African groups linked to al-Qaida, a leading anti-terrorism judge warned Thursday.
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There is an increasingly fashionable assumption in Europe that terrorism cannot be defeated, only appeased through a process of negotiation that concedes core elements of the terrorists' agenda.
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The Christian Science Monitor - Just days before the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks against the United States, European security forces in Germany and Denmark uncovered two terrorist cells that officials said Wednesday were planning massive attacks even more deadly than the bombings in Madrid and London.
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The German press reacts with shock to the arrest of suspected Islamists allegedly involved in a major bomb plot.
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A law allowing security officials in Germany to create the largest and most comprehensive pool of personal data ever amassed in the country goes into effect Thursday as the European Union's largest member state moves to protect itself against possible terrorist attacks.
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An image from the London bombings European intelligence and security chiefs are said to be on "tenterhooks" over the "extremely high" threat of a Christmas terror attack by Islamic militants.Comment
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In the wake of the latest British scare, Germany has erupted in a rancorous dispute over how to deal with a terrorist threat.
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A U.S. Air Force base in Germany received a bomb threat hours before the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, military officials said.
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COLOGNE - More than 20,000 people, most of them Muslim, have demonstrated in Germany against terrorism and for world peace. The crowd held aloft a sea of Turkish, German and European Union flags during speeches in downtown Cologne at the end of a march.