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| Muslim converts accused of holy war bomb plots (go to trial) |
| 2009-04-22 |
| Two Muslim converts and two Turks go on trial in a bomb-proof courtroom in Düsseldorf today accused of plotting to blow up German civilians and US soldiers. “The world will burn!” boasted an intercepted e-mail sent between the accused, who are alleged to have wanted to wage an Islamic holy war in the heart of Europe. Three of the men — Fritz Gelowicz, 29, Daniel Schneider, 23 and the Turkish national Adem Yilmaz, 30 — are accused of attending a training camp on the Afghan-Pakistani frontier run by an Uzbek-based terror organisation known as the Islamic Jihad Union. Intelligence services say that it has links with al-Qaeda. Using detonators — supplied, the state prosecutor claims, by Attila Selek, 24, a German citizen of Turkish origin — the gang prepared bombs with the explosive force of 410kg (904lb) of TNT, to be set off in and around the US Ramstein air base and other targets. The bombers in London on July 7, 2005, had 4kg of explosive. It is alleged that the gang wanted the attacks to influence a parliamentary debate extending the mandate of the German Army in Afghanistan in the autumn of 2007. The men were caught in an elaborate police sting operation in September that year. At the high point of the undercover surveillance, about 600 policemen were involved, fed with information from the German intelligence service and the CIA. When the alleged plotters rented a remote holiday home and allegedly started to gather material for the bombing campaign the police encircled the region, disguising themselves as villagers, foresters and petrol station attendants. As soon as the men left the cottage the police would change the vats of hydrogen peroxide for a diluted solution. They were following the example of Scotland Yard detectives, who while secretly monitoring terrorists planning a bomb attack on London five years ago switched a hoard of fertiliser for harmless cat litter. The cottage was bugged by the undercover squads and transcripts of the conversations will form part of the prosecutor's indictment today. “Ramstein sounds fine,” says Mr Gelowicz, according to the indictment in one of the eavesdropped cottage conversations. “We should have something on top of that, a pub or a disco. If each [of the devices] kills 50, injures a few, then that should be 150 dead.” At the time of the arrests Germans hunt 49 in ‘Fritz the Taliban’ terror plot. Looks like the Germans were not successful. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #1 WAFF > in the UK they were released and are about to face deportation. ION BRITANNIA. FOX NEWS AM > IIHC BRITAIN SEEMINGLY HAS JUST FORMALLY RAISED THE INCOME TAX BRACKET TO 45% OF THOSE EARNING US$200,000-PLUS A YARN??? Or twas it 60%??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-04-22 21:22 |