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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The Islamic Jihad Union, a little-known group from Uzbekistan with links to Al-Qaeda, has said it was behind a recent plot to attack a major US base and other targets in Germany, the interior ministry said Tuesday.
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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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BERLIN, Sept. 11 -- A terrorist cell broken up in Germany last week was planning to attack the huge Ramstein Air Base, a U.S. and NATO facility, and a U.S. consulate by the end of the year, German authorities reported Tuesday, citing an assertion of responsibility posted by a Central Asian milita...
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German territory and airspace may have been used to detain inmates transferred to the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a British organization said Friday, citing reports from prisoners.
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"For me, it is a unique case in federal German legal history for a minister to say, 'this verdict doesn't interest me, I will violate it,'"  Germany's defense minister said he might order the shooting down of hijacked airlines to avert a Sept. 11-style attack, drawing widespread criticism Monday after the country's highest court threw out a law permitting such action.In a weekend magazine interview, Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung argued that, despite the ruling, shooting down a plane would be possible 'in cases of common danger or danger to free and democratic basic order.''If there are no other means, I would give the order to shoot down (a plane) in order to protect our citizens,' he said. Read more
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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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Close work between German and U.S. authorities was key to uncovering what German police say would have been "massive" bomb attacks by militant Islamists, German media and a diplomat said on Friday.
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German authorities called on Friday for increased vigilance against possible terror attacks and said the kind of threat detected before the September 11, 2001 suicide hijackings in the United States had resurfaced.
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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 &quot;terrorist  training,&quot; a top security official told a newspaper.
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German security forces arrested three Islamic men reportedly in the act of mixing chemicals for bombing Frankfurt airport and a U.S. military base. via Imedinews
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A Sunni Muslim group affiliated to al  Qaeda has said it was behind planned attacks in Germany that  were foiled by police last week, Germany&#39;s Interior Ministry  said on Tuesday.
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Germany has arrested three men it suspects of belonging to an Islamist terrorist group and planning attacks on Frankfurt international airport and a major U.S. military base, German officials said on Wednesday.
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German security officials are searching  for 10 men they believe provided support for a foiled plot to  attack U.S. installations in the country, a senior government  official said.
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BERLIN, Sept. 5 -- German authorities said Wednesday that they had disrupted a "massive" bombing plot targeting American interests in Germany, and they expressed alarm at evidence that the three local suspects had visited militant camps in Pakistan -- the latest example of people traveling from...
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German state security officials urged the government Friday make training at a terror camp a crime, following a foiled bomb plot by alleged Islamic radicals believed to have undergone paramilitary training in Pakistan.
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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.