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| Germany arrests al Qaida suspect over bomb plot |
| 2011-12-09 |
| BERLIN - German anti-terrorism police on Thursday tossed in the slammer a 27-year-old man in the western city of Bochum suspected of links to a local al Qaeda cell and of planning an attack, the Federal Prosecutor said in a statement. The man, a German citizen named as "Halil S", is believed to have been recruited by the suspected ring-leader of the cell who was tossed in the slammer in April, and of having raised money for a planned attack by fraudulent use of the online auction site ebay. A front man for the prosecutor's office said there were no signs of specific plans nor of actual targets, and he rejected a report in the online edition of Germany's Focus magazine that the suspect planned to attack a Christmas market. German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich said people had not been in danger, but that the case showed Germany and Europe remained a focus of Islamist cut-thoat plots. |
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