Reading this I have to wonder if the Germans have the same big fight over wiretapping and the monitoring of terrorists in Germany as we have in the US:

Detonators to be used in a foiled terror plot that was aimed at Americans and possibly included Ramstein Air Base, Germany, as a target may have been smuggled from Istanbul, Turkey, to Germany by a 15-year-old boy, according to investigators.

On Saturday, Spiegel Online International reported new details about the case against three suspected terrorists who were captured last month at a vacation home north of Frankfurt after a series of raids by German authorities.

“The investigators have also recently discovered how the 26 military detonators which were found in the Sauerland holiday home — and which indicated that a professional terror network was involved — were brought to Germany. A 15-year-old German of Tunisian descent from Wolfsburg named Aladin T., who testified before the court in Karlsruhe on Monday of last week, is believed to have been the courier,” Spiegel reported.  [...]

While Ramstein and certain pubs in Mannheim and Dortmund were identified by the online paper as potential targets, Spiegel also reported: “The Islamists rejected supermarkets as targets on the basis that too many women and children would be hit; they also felt that discotheques would be less than ideal targets.”

The three suspects first came to the attention of authorities because the men had been observing a U.S. military facility in late 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. [John Vandiver - Stars & Stripes]

It just makes you wonder how long it will be before some idiots like this crew successfully pull off an attack in the US.  Anyway great job by the German authorities breaking up this terror cell. 

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