Posted by
Catmman on Wednesday, September 05, 2007 12:40:09 PM
The German jihadists would leave us alone?
From Michelle Malkin:
http://michellemalkin.com/2007/09/05/jihadists-never-rest/The German suspects were reportedly plotting a hit on a U.S. base and other areas where Americans gather:
Three suspected Islamic terrorists from an al-Qaida-influenced group nursing “profound hatred of U.S. citizens” were arrested on suspicious of plotting imminent, massive bomb attacks on U.S. facilities in Germany, prosecutors said Wednesday.
German Federal Prosecutor Monika Harms said the three, two of whom were German converts to Islam, had trained at camps in Pakistan run by the Islamic Jihad Union, a group based in Central Asia. They had obtained some 1,500 pounds of hydrogen peroxide for making explosives.
“We were able to succeed in recognizing and preventing the most serious and massive bombings,” Harms told reporters. Harms declined to name specific targets, but said the suspects had an eye on institutions and establishments frequented by Americans in Germany, including discos, pubs and airports. Sudwestfunk televison, citing unnamed security sources in Berlin, reported that Frankfurt international airport and U.S. Ramstein Air Base were among the targets.
And it seems they had plenty of time on their hands, as the following shows:
Update 11:15am Eastern. Well, knock me over with a straw: The jihadi suspects were getting unemployment benefits (via Allah).
More from Michelle:
More from Der Spiegel:
They were still far from having a finished bomb, however. “It wasn’t a case of coitus interruptus,” commented one official. However, according to information obtained by SPIEGEL ONLINE, the men had all the necessary components ready — they had even already procured a military ignition mechanism for the explosive device. “An attack was imminent — it was only a question of time,” said one high-ranking security expert. Probably the men wanted to place the bombs in one or more cars and explode them in front of the target.
The goal of the men was clear. “The intention was to commit an attack and cause as many deaths as possible,” said the official. The investigators were mainly concerned that the three men had been acting conspiratorially in the last few weeks and possibly were planning to split up after the meeting in Oberschledorn and work further on their plan even more inconspicuously. Out of fear of losing track of the group and their activities, the police decided to strike.
One of the men attempted to escape through the bathroom window during the raid. He tore the gun out of the hand of a police officer who challenged him. In the following scuffle, a shot was fired and the police officer was lightly injured on the hand.
The arrests came after an extensive investigation carried out by federal prosecutors. Agents had been on the heels of the group surrounding 28-year-old Fritz G. — one of those taken into custody on Tuesday — since the end of 2006. Together with Daniel S. — likewise a German who had converted to Islam — and a 22-year-old Turkish man from Hesse named Adem Y., Fritz G. is thought to have founded an Islamist group that was even prepared to carry out suicide attacks in Germany.
And in a somewhat unrelated, but still connected note, if apologists are going to keep using blowback as an excuse, why have the French received none for
The Battle of Tours?
The jihadists constantly point to the Crusades as some loose justification for a lot of what they do, but it seems the French have been given a pass. Or is this type of justification selective in nature?
If jihadis (and their apologists) are going to keep pointing to the past to justify blowing up innocent people and wage global hostilities against the
'kaffir", then I think it's high time for these guy to stick it to France.
My ultimate point is that the blowback argument about jihadi hostility is pure nonsense. It's not about any perceived "occupation of foreign lands", or even revenge for past political mistakes made by various countries.
It's an cultural and religious idealogical struggle with conquest, not coexistance, as the goal.