Terror suspects Samir A. and Noureddine El F. wanted to obtain materials in Germany to make a bomb belt and carry out a suicide attack in the Netherlands, the Amsterdam trial court was told on Friday.Crown witness Lahbib B. — who also stands accused in the Piranha investigation — said Samir A. asked him in the summer of 2005 — shortly after the arrest of El F. — to travel to Germany with him. He said A. wanted to see how many checks were carried out along the border. B. said further that Samir A. wanted to obtain the "ingredients of a bomb belt" in Germany.
El F. — who was arrested with a loaded automatic pistol in Amsterdam West — allegedly showed the witness on CD-ROM how to make a bomb belt. B. could not tell the judge how the suicide attack would be carried out.
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