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| Anti-War Leftist Terrorist Organization Plants Bombs On German Railways |
| 2011-10-12 |
| German police have discovered another explosive device designed to derail trains in Berlin - the third in two days. Two of the devices were found on Monday - one on a high-speed line and another near Berlin's main station. The third was discovered on Tuesday on the track of a suburban railway line south of the German capital. A previously unknown left-wing group, calling itself the Hekla Reception Committee, said it planted the devices. The explosive devices are made of bottles of flammable liquids attached to fuses. The discovery of the third suspected fire-bomb follows the explosion on Monday of a device on the high-speed line between Hamburg and Berlin, where trains reach speeds of 200km/h. There were no casualties, but rail traffic was disrupted. Another device was discovered on Monday before it went off at the mouth of a tunnel leading to Berlin's main station. It consisted of seven bottles, filled with flammable liquid, bundled together and linked to a fuse. The leftist Hekla Reception Committee said in an online statement that it had planted the devices in protest at the presence of German troops in Afghanistan. Police said they were not familiar with Hekla, which is also the name of an Icelandic volcano. Germany has about 5,000 soldiers deployed in Afghanistan as part of Nato's mission, most of them in the north of the country. Last November, Berlin's transport system was severely disrupted when signalling cables were set on fire. There have also been arson attacks on a number of expensive cars in the German capital. But these latest attacks on high-speed railway lines take the potential destruction to a new level of danger. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #10 Ahh, the democrat party |
| Posted by: newc 2011-10-12 11:53 |
| #9 F*cking for virginity. Hey I thought the left was into peace and love, make love not war, yada, yada, yada. So we are back into the Bill Ayers-Bernardine Dohrn Weatherdork era? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-10-12 09:47 |
| #8 Anti-war protests by committing violent acts. Makes perfect fucking sense.... Can we throw these guys out the back of a C-130 at 33,000ft before they reproduce please? |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2011-10-12 09:30 |
| #7 I get the feeling that anyone who effs with the trains in Germany will get it. I saw a protest by nougetnazis at a station, basically all well and good protest unless someone rushed the station where I saw NFL worthy tackles and smiling eyebrow raising escorts...somewhere. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2011-10-12 08:49 |
| #6 If they promote violence, certainly |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2011-10-12 08:22 |
| #5 Come on gromky, nobody in Germany wants to get blown up in a train, left or right. But will they start persecuting leftwing bloggers? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-10-12 06:42 |
| #4 Come on gromky, nobody in Germany wants to get blown up in a train, left or right. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2011-10-12 04:40 |
| #3 So, certainly, German society will come together to reject these sorts of acts. Nah, Anti-War Leftist Terrorist Organizations are the good guys. |
| Posted by: gromky 2011-10-12 04:18 |
| #2 No, this was Page 1 on every major and not so major paper and news site in Germany.. Nobody has ever heard of that group though |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2011-10-12 03:07 |
| #1 If it were right-wingers doing it, German and international media would be all over it. But, it's those lovable leftist terrorists, so it's the bottom of the column on page G24 and the terrorists get a sympathetic hearing for their viewpoint. |
| Posted by: gromky 2011-10-12 02:26 |