| Submit your comments on this article |
| Europe |
| Police Foil Neo-Nazi Bomb Plot Against Munich Synagogue |
| 2003-09-12 |
| EFL. Follow up from yesterday German federal prosecutors said Friday that neo-Nazis arrested for planning a bomb attack on a Munich synagogue had additional targets in mind. Munich police have arrested a group of neo-Nazis that were planning a massive bomb attack on the construction site of the city’s planned synagogue. Working on an informant tip, police raided the Munich apartment of a suspected neo-Nazi and found more than 14 kg (30 lbs) of bomb-making material, including 1.7kg of the explosive TNT, weapons and a metal pipe. They arrested four suspected members of a Munich band of neo-Nazis, charging them with a planning a bomb attack and membership in a terrorist organization. "Everything was there for a bomb, only the alarm was missing," a police official told the SÃŒddeutsche Zeitung. Reports indicated the attack was going to take place during a cornerstone-laying ceremony attended by Rau, Bavarian Premier Edmund Stoiber and high-ranking members of the Jewish community on Nov. 9. The interior minister, however, said investigators weren’t sure Nov. 9 was the target date. On a personal note: I have been invited to attend the ceremony as well. Police say the seizure of bomb-making material was the largest found in Germany in the last decade and the largest in connection with right extremists since the end of WWII. Federal Prosecutor Kay Nehm said Thursday night his office was going to take on the case and was going to investigate the group of round 25 neo-Nazis, called the Kameradschaft SÃŒd - AktionsbÃŒro SÃŒddeutschland, to which the four belonged. Nehm also said Thursday that a case against three suspected members of the Islamic terror cell Al Tawahid, who had also planned attacks against Jewish targets, would head to trial in the coming months. Violent antisemitism, Islamists and Neo-Nazis: When shall the two meet? Or have they already? |
| Posted by:True German Ally |
| #10 I might add though that I can see that antisemitic islamists show sympathy for the Nazi ideology. The question is, will the two actually work hand in hand? The Neo-Nazis hate Turkish (and other immigrants) as passionately as the Jews. (Neo-Nazis also have a pronounced anti-American stance.) But maybe they come to an "useful idiot" agreement? |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2003-9-12 9:52:00 PM |
| #9 Yes indeed. Also the "cartoons" about Jews and Israel you can find in Arab newspapers seem to follow the "best" Stürmer tradition. |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2003-9-12 9:43:50 PM |
| #8 "Violent antisemitism, Islamists and Neo-Nazis: When shall the two meet? Or have they already?" A good question, TGA, I'll let one of your countrymen answer it: That old link between Islamism and Nazism, explained in Germanic detail |
| Posted by: Ernest Brown 2003-9-12 9:28:12 PM |
| #7 Bulldog, I WILL attend, be sure of that! I read about this in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung: "Wenn in Berlin junge Neonazis „Sieg-Heil“ skandieren, greift, wie es sich gehört, die Polizei ein. Wenn jüngere Männer ersichtlich arabischer Herkunft unter Sieg-Heil-Rufen über die Brücke marschieren, schaut die Polizei zu." The commentary says that Neo-Nazis get stopped by police when they shout "Sieg Heil", but complains that the same doesn't happen when "men of visible Arabic descent" do the same. The commentary was written by a very trustworthy senior correspondant of that serious newspaper. So these things obviously happen. |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2003-9-12 8:15:28 PM |
| #6 ...Watch yourself on the 9th, OK? You're not indestructible! |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2003-9-12 7:57:20 PM |
| #5 TGA, that's incredible. Do you have links to any accounts of pictures? |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2003-9-12 7:55:17 PM |
| #4 I might add that there HAVE been Arab demonstrants in Berlin shouting "Sieg Heil". |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2003-9-12 7:32:30 PM |
| #3 The enemy of my enemy... Old story. Read about Egypt and Hitler. You don't have to like each other to kill Jews. |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2003-9-12 7:06:57 PM |
| #2 Why the surprise, Rafael? These groups have been bosom buddies since the 30s. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-9-12 6:49:33 PM |
| #1 Islamists and Neo-nazis??? Yeah right!!!! |
| Posted by: Rafael 2003-9-12 5:56:57 PM |