Germany arrests three over 'serious and massive bomb plot'
Mark Tran and agencies
Wednesday September 5, 2007
Guardian Unlimited
Three men have been arrested for allegedly plotting "massive bombings" greater than the explosions in Madrid and London, German officials said today.
Monika Harms, the German federal prosecutor, said the three suspected terrorists had trained at camps in Pakistan and obtained some 680kg (1,500lb) of hydrogen peroxide for making explosives.
[...]The three suspects first came to the attention of authorities because they had been observing a US military facility at the end of 2006, officials said.
All three had undergone training at camps in Pakistan run by the Islamic Jihad Union, and had formed a German cell of the group. The Islamic Jihad Union was described as a Sunni Muslim group based in central Asia that was an offshoot of an extremist group called the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
[...]The website of the German news magazine Der Spiegel said investigators made the arrests yesterday afternoon after the men were observed moving chemicals from one storage place to another.
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