Truemors
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Police in Germany have thwarted what they are calling would have been the "Largest terrorist attacks ever on German soil.” The attack, which is said by officials to have been just days away, would have wreaked havoc on both civilian and military planes and could have possibly, killed hundreds. Police in Germany have arrested three men all German converts to Islam, and seized bomb making equipment and explosives from a residence.
The German arrests come just days after a large terrorism raid in Denmark netted 8 suspected Islamic extremists and also recovered bomb making supplies. European officials say that the two cases are un related. In a statement made to the public German federal prosecutor Monika Harms exclaimed "We have prevented what we believe would have been the worse terrorism attacks ever on German Soil." In a later interview Joerg Ziercke, the head of Germany's federal crime office described the suspects as having "A profound hatred for the United States." Sources have named Frankfurt International Airport and Ramstein Air Base as possible targets in the plot. At least one of the men is reported as having received terrorism training in Al Qaeda camps in Pakistan
Police have smashed a suspected al Qaeda terror cell nursing a "profound hatred of US citizens" plotting to bomb civilian and military jets.The force of the planned explosions would have been worse than the train bombings in Madrid and the Tube and bus attacks in London on 7 July, 2005, according to German security sources. Those attacks killed 191 and 52 people respectively.
Three men aged 22, 28 and 29 have been arrested in Germany days before they planned to strike, and bomb-making equipment and explosives have been seized.
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