Posted by
Gabrielle Cusumano on Sunday, September 09, 2007 4:02:50 PM
"Three suspected Islamist militants who were planning to attack American targets in Germany had orders to act by September 15 and knew police were hot on their trail before their arrest, a magazine said on Saturday. "
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"According to surveillance details published in Der Spiegel magazine, the men had been given a two-week deadline for their planned strikes in a late August call from northern Pakistan that was monitored by German police."
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"In another detail to emerge on Saturday, a spokeswoman for the Federal Prosecutors Office in Karlsruhe confirmed a Focus magazine report that the suspects had obtained three small used vans in France and brought them to Germany. " More of this story. By Erik Kirschbaum for Reuters:
at :http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070908/wl_nm/germany_security_dc;_ylt=ArVU84KoyCq0IUzdxDtRfB.s0NUE
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Full names of suspects reported in "Germany says terror plot may be wider," by Alexander G. Higgins for the Associated Press:
They are (Excerpted) "The two German suspects have been identified as Fritz Martin Gelowicz, 28, described as the leader of an Islamic Jihad Union terror cell in Germany, and Daniel Martin Schneider, 22. The third man has been identified as Adem Yilmaz, 29, born in Turkey but living in Germany.
Excerpted from :http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070909/ap_on_re_eu/germany_terror_1;_ylt=ApDIea2_3OmSSdZRHPQrYJCROrgF
Opinion: All Americans and American Islamic groups and communities in the United States should step up their vigilance and commitment to the fight against terrorism.