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2021-10-21 Europe
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Prosecutors arrest two former German soldiers on terrorism charges
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[DW] Prosecutors have arrested two former Bundeswehr soldiers accused of being the ringleaders of an attempt to form a terror group. The planned paramilitary unit in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
would have put civilian lives at risk, they said.
German federal prosecutors said on Wednesday they had arrested two former Bundeswehr soldiers who are "strongly suspected" of having attempted to form a paramilitary unit made up of other former soldiers or coppers.
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In a statement, the prosecutors said the two men, identified according to German privacy laws only as Arend-Adolf G. and Achim A., had been primarily motivated by an expected monthly payment of around €40,000 ($46,560) to each member of the unit.
The unit was planned to consist of between 100 and 150 mercenaries and be under the sole command of the two men who have been arrested, the statement said.
According to the prosecutors, the two men wanted to deploy the unit to carry out combat operations in the ongoing civil war in Yemen with the aim of "pacifying" the region and forcing Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth . Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
rebels and the Yemeni government to negotiate.
In Yemen, a conflict has been raging for years in which Shiite Houthi rebels, generally believed to be backed by Iran, have been fighting the government. Saudi Arabia
 ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
has intervened militarily in the war on the side of the government to combat what it sees as an attempt by its regional archenemy, Tehran, to gain power in the region.
The two men were arrested in southern Germany, one in the city of Munich and the other in the Black Forest region of the state of Baden-Wurttemberg, the statement said.
Later on Wednesday, a judge with the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe approved holding the men on charges of trying to form a terrorist group. Germany's Justice Ministry also clarified that the two suspects' association with the Bundeswehr was at least 25 years in the past.
CIVILIAN DEATHS POSSIBLE
The two men were aware that the planned unit would have to kill people during operations and that civilians could also be killed or injured, the prosecutors said, adding that the suspects also had plans for the group to act as mercenaries in other conflicts.
According to the prosecutors' statement, the two ex-soldiers wanted to gain funding primarily from Saudi Arabia, with Achim A. having tried for some time to enter into dialogue with Saudi representatives — so far, in vain, as no one on the Saudi side had reacted.
Possibly suggesting there is no market for this product... Although the unit has not yet been formed, prosecutors said Arend-Adolf G. had already contacted at least seven people to sound out whether they were interested in joining.
According to German news magazine Der Spiegel, the two men worked for the controversial security firm Asgaard
...a German private military company founded in 2007, known for selling a contract to provide security to a minor Somali politician in 2010. This caused great distress in Germany, because it was discovered Germany had no regulations about such things, making it impossible to forbid the contract... after their time in the Bundeswehr as paratroopers. The magazine said that Arend-Adolf G. had at times been the managing director of the company.
According to Der Spiegel weekly, Arend-Adolf G. and Achim A. were paratroopers in the Bundeswehr and had later both worked for the controversial security company Asgaard.
Asgaard, which actively recruits former members of special units of the Bundeswehr and the police, came under fire in 2020 after German media exposed it as the hub of a wide-ranging right-wing murderous Moslem network. 
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