More on this story, from Agence France-Presse:
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US counter-terrorism official on Friday said authorities had information suggesting Islamic extremists were plotting a terrorist attack against American targets in Germany.
US media reported German and American officials believed a terrorist attack on US targets in Germany was imminent.
The counter-terrorism official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP the information was not specific in terms of timing or precise targets, but was of enough concern to prompt the US Embassy in Berlin to issue a threat warning on April 20.
Asked whether the threat involved attacks with bombs and small arms as reported, the official said, "Threat information is suggesting that is a possibility. But again the information wasn't specific with regard to timing and location."
US media reported that an Al-Qaeda cell was thought to be behind the threat.
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Security has been beefed up at all US military and diplomatic facilities following reports that suspected terrorists had had Patch Barracks under surveillance.
"The attack would be designed to create high numbers of casualties among both Germans and the US military," Richard Clarke, a former White House counterterror official, told ABC.
An unnamed senior US official was quoted by CNN as saying that the group was believed to be an affiliate of the Al-Qaeda terror network, and was thought to possess bombs and small arms.
But a State Department spokesman could not confirm that there had been a new threat, although an alert had been posted by the US embassy in Germany on its website a couple of weeks ago.
"The information that they received caused them to have some concern about the safety of some facilities in Germany including our diplomatic facilities," spokesman Sean McCormack said.
People were asked "to exercise extra vigilance and caution, although at that point, they did not have a specific credible threat."
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Tiny Minority of Extremists Alert:
"There are 300 to 500 people who are suspected to be part of Al-Qaeda cells in Germany," retired colonel Andrews Pratt of the George Marshall Center in Germany told the ABC.
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Fight them over there [in Iraq] so we won't have to fight them over here, except all over Germany, and London, and Madrid, and Amsterdam, and Moscow, and Paris, and Strasbourg, and Buenos Aires, and Falls Church and Phoenix and Portland and Lackawanna and Fort Dix, New Jersey and....[this just in, today, next week, next month].
"Fight them over there, at a cost of $880 billion so far in past, present, and future committed expenditures. Fight them over there at a cost, that is, that is more than the combined total spent on all of the wars, World War II excepted, that America has ever thought."
"Fight them over there so the number of willing troops who enlist or re-enlist goes steadily down, and the quality of new recruits plummets -- to the regular army, to the Reserves, to the National Guard."
"Fight them over there so that the National Guard can be without 40% or 50% or 60% of its equipment, left in Iraq apparently forever, so that our "allies" in Iraq can use them.
"Fight them over there so that, as a Taiwanese minister said, China -- which presumably has as much reliance on Middle Eastern oil, and should presumably, therefore, be as "worried" as we appear to be about "chaos" and impending "catastrophe" if "we pull out" but seems not at all concerned, in fact has not lifted a finger in Iraq, and certainly has not spent $880 billion -- can quietly build up its own armed forces, while American forces steadily degrade in all the ways where money counts, and in all the ways where money does not count (those who have been ill-treated by the Army, ordered back a second or a third time, will not forgive and will not forget the promises broken, and the way their lives have been disrupted by a stupid and callous policy -- above all those who constitute the civilian army of Reservists and National Guard, and never expected to be called upon, and more than once, in such a way).
"Fight them over there so that everyone over here thinks only of Iraq and of using military force in this so-called 'war on terror' and gives not a moment's thought to the money weapon used to pay for mosques, madrasas, and armies of Western hirelings, by their Saudi paymasters, nor to well-financed cleverly-targetted campaigns of Da'wa, nor to demographic conquest."
"Fight them over there because only cut-and-runners would ask for us to get out, such cut-and-runnres as, for example, Major General John Batiste, who commanded troops in Iraq in 2004, or General Sir Michael Rose, the former head of the English SAS (Special Forces), who has declared that the United States and Great Britain have suffered a "defeat in Iraq" and should promptly get out, for it is, in his opinion, madness to remain.
"Fight them over there because, you see, the Administration is still intent on bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to "ordinary mombs and dads" in the Middle East, and bedause that little Sunni-Shi'a split is oh-so-recent, and so trivial, that Condoleeza Rice herself counsels the Iraqs to "just get over it."
"Fight them over there because it is only this little group called Al-Qaeda, and no other group, and once you have removed that group, then there will no problem, not with the good Sunnis who do not support bad Al-Qaeda, not with the good Shi'a, all of whom support democracy and freedom and are immensely grateful for all American soldiers have done for them.
"Fight them over there because Bush and Cheney believe that 'we will prevail' if only we stay long enough, and by 'prevail' they mean we, the Americans, will keep Sunnis and Shi'a together, we will prevent them from fighting with each other, we will convince them to make the necessary compromises that civilized, advanced, Western non-Muslim man is used to, and isn't the avoidance of internecine warfare within the Camp of Islam an Important American Goal? Of course it is.
"Fight them over there because the Sunnis will not only eventually reconcile themselves to their new, diminished status, and learn to live with the Shi'a, but so too will all the Sunni Arab rulers and peoples around, for they will have learned the art of political compromise, just the way they have demonstrated in their dealings with the Infidel state of Israel, or in Darfur, with both non-Muslims and non-Arab Muslims.
"Fight them over there because the Administration has no idea how to get out, how to stop things, how to remove troops safely from the Sunni Arabs and the Shi'a Arabs who will attempt to attack them as they attempt to leave, in order to seize as much American weaponry as they can. Unlike the Viet Cong, who did nothing to impede the Americans from leaving, the Arabs will do everything they can to seize what they can, and the Americdans will be forced to defend themselves against the assorted local "allies" they have on whom that $880 billion has been spent, spent for nothing, spent for a colossal fiasco, a fiasco made all the more maddening because had the Americans withdrawn promptly at the very beginning of 2004, or at any time since, they would have had the only "victory" that made or makes or will make any sense: the victory of seeing the Sunni Arabs refuse to acquiesce, and the Shi'a Arabs refuse to give up their power, and endless hostilities, not necessarily mass warfare, but something like what goes on today, with Sunni suicide bombs, and internecine Sunni strife, and Shi'a militias, and Shi'a internecine strife, and then co-religionists from outsdie sending in money, men, materiel, all to be used up, as the Americans have for the past four eyars and nine months used up their men, their money, their materiel, and the victory will be that of dividing and demoralizing and thereby weakening the Camp of Islam.
"Fight them over there" because....well, because Bush can't think of anything else to do, and hallucinates, and Cheney doesn't want to consider anything else to do, and hallucinates still, while not they, but others are asked to fight, use up their lives, are wounded, even die, for the colossal ignorance about Islam and about Iraq, of others whom no one forces to fight, some to be wounded, some to die, with many to be permanently scarred in other ways.
"Fight them over there" because trying to even figure out what to do about Da'wa and demographic conquest, or the OPEC trillions, is just too much, beyond the wit of those whose duty it is to instruct and protect us. They need instruction themselves.
"Fight them over there" in Tarbaby Iraq because, because, because.
Hugh, can I just say how much I admire your writing, your energy and style?
Keep up the good fight; there are people listening! (Even if you keep writing faster than I can keep up! :-)
Fight them over there [in Iraq] so we won't have to fight them over here, except all over Germany, and London, and Madrid, and Amsterdam, and Moscow, and Paris, and Strasbourg, and Buenos Aires, and Falls Church and Phoenix and Portland and Lackawanna and Fort Dix, New Jersey and....
And just who are the permanent governement federal bureaucrats who insist on admitting Moslems onto our sacred shores? What are their names? May we see head shot pictures of these decision-makers? Do we have street addresses of their offices? Email addresses? Where did they go to college? What is their rationale? What are their politics? Who supervises them? For God's sake, who makes these disastrous decisions, and on what basis? And what are the statistics of recent intentional Moslem immigration? Does C-Span broadcast the hearings during which these decisions are made, for exapmle, to bring in no blue eyed Europeans but instead all brown eyed Moslems? Is there a written record of these proceedings as conducted and made over the last 3 decades?
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These questions are, by a very wide margin, the most important to anti-Dhimmitude research.
Yet, I have seen not one goddamned word from anybody, anywhere, on any of this. It's as if the decision to fill my beautiful home of Mpls-St Paul up with defiant lazy tax-mooch Sharia-intent Moslems, to take one small example, was made in an ethereal place to which I am not only denied admittance, but am also denied visibility.
I love this website, but have seen no work here on this all-important subject, at least that I've seen. Apparently immigration policy makers from Princeton are off-limits.
Is researching Amercian immigration policy rocket science? Have we no public record on this?
Thanksgiving weekend is one of the biggest shopping times for Christmas for Americans.
On a Sunday, Thanksgiving weekend in the 1980's a car bomb was exploded in the parking lot of a PX/Commissary complex in Germany. It was nearly closing time so no deaths and it didn't even make the News stateside.
I only mention it because of what happened as I was buying Valentines Day cards the following February.
In the PX Hallmark Cards area someone dropped something on the metal floor of the upstairs stockroom. A loud Boom caused a toddler in the shopping cart next to me to sigh and say "Another Bomb!"
Think about this story when you read about alerts at overseas Post/Bases/Diplomatic locations. Remember that our fellow Americans are living under the most difficult circumstances imaginable.
They are threatened daily because of the Religion of Peace.
You can't win a war if you refuse to name the enemy.