German security services arrested three Muslim activists on Tuesday and foiled a plan to carry out "massive bomb attacks" against US installations in Germany, officials say. Monika Harms, federal prosecutor, said on Wednesday in Karlsruhe that the men, two German nationals and one Turk, had been on the verge of launching their attacks after acquiring enough material to make a bomb with explosive power equal to 550kg of TNT. [More]
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The three belonged to the Islamic Jihad Union (also referred to as the Islamic Jihad Group), which is a splinter group of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and has been responsible for several high profile bombings in that nation. The IMU, while a separate organization, has very close ties with al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, from whom it has received substantial sums of money. The IJU's al-Qaeda ties appear to be even closer, due to the extreme sophistication of their attacks. The IJU's apparent branching out into Europe is disturbing, to say the least, as is the temporal proximity of these events to the anniversary of 9/11. Al-Qaeda had originally planned to launch a follow-up attack on US soil on September 11, 2002; it looks like they may have taken that idea back out of cold storage. When considered in conjunction with the recent arrest of eight terror suspects in Denmark, an ominous trend begins to emerge.
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Thought you might be interested in this. The Taliban is starting to re-take the region that the Canadian armed forces fought so hard for last year, then turned over to the Afghan army and police to maintain.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/09/05/canadian-mission.html
"While Afghanistan's army is generally seen as disciplined and largely reliable, the police are poorly trained and say they haven't been paid in three months. The force is plagued by corruption and officers sometimes show more loyalty to gangs, warlords or the Taliban than their government."
Hopelessly frustrating.
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