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German soccer match canceled after police discover bomb truck disguised as ambulance

Nov 17, 2015 3:14 pm By Robert Spencer

“And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may terrify the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them whom you do not know whom Allah knows…” (Qur’an 8:60)

German police Hanover soccer stadium

An update on this story. “Germany friendly with Holland cancelled 90 minutes before kick-off after ‘bomb truck disguised as ambulance’ was discovered as police confirm device was to be detonated inside the ground,” by Martin Domin, MailOnline, November 17, 2015 (thanks to Bulldog):

Germany’s friendly against Holland was cancelled just 90 minutes before kick-off after a bomb truck disguised as an ambulance was discovered near the stadium in Hanover, according to reports.

Police chief Volker Kluwe said there had been ‘a concrete threat scenario for all of Hanover’ and that there had been ‘serious plans to cause an explosion’.

He added that the the device was intended to be detonated inside the HDI Arena which has a capacity of 45,000.

‘We had concrete evidence that someone wanted to set off an explosive device in the stadium,’ Kluwe told German TV.

Referring to another bomb threat about an hour beforehand that turned out to be a false alarm, he said, ‘After the first object turned out to be harmless, we got a tip that had to be taken seriously that an attack was being planned.’…

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  1. Charli Main says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 3:19 pm

    I´m sure that the ” mother of the Muslims” won´t waste any time reassuring the German public that this is nothing to do with Muslims and Islam is the religion of peace.

    • Dr. Divinity says

      Nov 18, 2015 at 12:35 pm

      It is way past time for the world powers tfin world powers finally come to realize that islam is a CULT and not a religion..If what has happened to the world in most recent times is not enough then the world leaders are blind CULTS can be destroyed or in time they e.g. will destroy themselves..Islam is the only religion…(so called)…that teaches murder as it’s main line or thought and action. Close the CULT mosques ban the Koran or at least pass laws to monitor all CULT mosques but mainly declare them as a CULT and stop giving them religious privileges.Can’t the world powers see what islam really is?????

  2. Michael Copeland says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 3:20 pm

    This has nothing to do with Islam. Theresa May and David Cameron tell us.

    • jayell says

      Nov 17, 2015 at 4:33 pm

      Right. And the Pope isn’t a Catholic.

      • Angemon says

        Nov 17, 2015 at 6:17 pm

        The current one certainly isn’t.

        • Ami says

          Nov 17, 2015 at 10:49 pm

          agreed!!!!!!!

    • John says

      Nov 17, 2015 at 5:56 pm

      You’re joking? All of this is 100% about Islam the river of blood. Muslims are the sword. Muslims are REQUIRED to kill…, a nation must be stupid to let Islam take root. UAA is Obamastupid.

      • Diana says

        Nov 18, 2015 at 5:16 am

        Yes, he was joking. People often do that around here.

  3. ICH says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 3:22 pm

    notice no one ever talks about muhammed ?

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Nov 17, 2015 at 3:33 pm

      Yeah, which is especially ironic considering half of them are named Mohammed.

      ***

      I wonder if the attempted mass murder bombing at the Kansas St vs Oklahoma game in Norman would have made TV reports today. That was back in 2005, and the holy warriors of the Mujahidin have plowed a few troughs since then. After a certain point even a globo-socialist editor at ABC or NBC (i.e., a pro-Moslem) has no choice but to report the truth. It’s tough, but sometimes a guy’s got to cut bait and bite the bullet.

  4. Caroline says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 3:31 pm

    Mamma Merkel is welcoming hundreds of thousands of RoPers into Germany, and this is her thanks?

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Nov 17, 2015 at 3:35 pm

      There is no appreciation these days. Plus, my understanding is that many of these “Syrian” “refugees” have been told to live in temporary tent cities until they can build free apartments to house them, so naturally they’re ticked off.

      • The Buffster says

        Nov 18, 2015 at 12:49 am

        Naturally! Why didn’t Germany have free apartments already built just in case some Musliim refugees happened to need them in the future? Couldn’t the Germans see that this might happen? Sheesh!

        Or better yet, why can’t Germany turn out hundreds of thousands of Germans from their homes and put THEM in tents while the refugees get the houses and apartments?

        Stupid, inhospitable dhimmies.

        • Cecilia Ellis says

          Nov 18, 2015 at 12:59 am

          ?

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 17, 2015 at 5:26 pm

      and this is her thanks?
      …………………

      Of course it is. This is how Muslims treat dhimmi appeasers.

      • Georg says

        Nov 17, 2015 at 7:50 pm

        Exactly. They think if we just let the bear chew on our hand or calf for a bit it’ll be satisfied and on its merry way.

  5. Oliver says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 3:43 pm

    And didn’t Merkel recently say that Germany needs its Muslims and their mosques?

    They deserve it. My view

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Nov 17, 2015 at 4:11 pm

      There is some feeling of indebtedness to Islam among German elites. The Grand Mufti went up to Berlin at Adolph’s request, helped set up two or three all-Moslem SS divisions, and played a key role in figuring out the logistics of the Final Solution. I mean, killing and disposing of 6 million people is not an easy thing. After the war ended, a big beautiful mosque was built in Munich, I think as a thank you to the Ummah for its participation in what turned out to be an ill fated venture.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 17, 2015 at 5:29 pm

      In that case we *all* “deserve it”, Oliver, since there isn’t a single Western nation with a truly sane policy of keeping the Muslim invaders out.

      • Oliver says

        Nov 17, 2015 at 7:22 pm

        My comment was more to the way Germany MURDERED millions of people-for no real reason–JEWS; GYPSIES; HOMOSEXUALS; PEOPLE WITH BIRTH OR OTHER DEFECTS, ETC.

        They deserve payback for that.

        My view.

        Jews had and have 6 million reasons to despise Germany- but have you heard of Jews doing mass murder of Germans? Anytime from 1945-2015? I have not.

        And as for all western nations- right. And the Mus;lims should live with the elite and the leaders and those who support this nonsense.

        • TheBuffster says

          Nov 18, 2015 at 12:56 am

          And do you consider Americans today deserve to be enslaved or murdered for the destruction of the American Indian and for the slavery of Africans? Do YOU have any ancestors that did anything awful to people? Does that mean that you deserve payback for crimes of your father, grandfather, great-grandfather?

          That’s a collectivist point of view, not an individualist one. Highly irrational and tribal – and unjust to any reasonable mind.

    • Ami says

      Nov 17, 2015 at 11:00 pm

      Unfortunately, if Merkel can get away with this, other leaders will follow and are following, I.e. Obama. Her actions concern us all. Why was Merkel one of the persons on this list for Turnball to meet?

      • TheBuffster says

        Nov 18, 2015 at 12:57 am

        If only she were on the list so Turnbull could kick her @ss. But I suspect that’s not the reason.

        • Ami says

          Nov 18, 2015 at 1:06 am

          Hmmm….. don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Fingers crossed something big will happen in the two years for him to be booted out. But, he’ll probably play it safe for the next two years.

    • Ernie says

      Nov 18, 2015 at 3:18 am

      Oliver , I am a Dutchman , and my mothers family suffered a lot under the nazi’s during worldwar 2 . We have forgiven . We bear no hate against the German people . I’ve met lots of German people , and you know what ? We liked each other ! German does’t mean NAZI Oliver . And you know that very well ! So please , don’t make such hateful judgements against the German people in general . It doesn’t make sense . It says a lot about YOU .

  6. miriamrove says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 3:46 pm

    And of course the the PC German government is importing more of them. m

  7. Beagle says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 3:47 pm

    If the IS war on football, footie, futbal, soccer does not awaken Europeans out of their torpor, nothing will.

    • Westman says

      Nov 17, 2015 at 6:28 pm

      Amen.

  8. Don McKellar says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 3:47 pm

    You know what the problem is here: MERKEL ISN’T LETTING THEM FLOOD IN FAST ENOUGH!

    SCHNELL, FRAU MERKEL! SCHNELL WITH THE ISLAMIC COLONISTS!

  9. Resist says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 3:49 pm

    No article in the French news about this….people dont realize that we are under a major islamist threat because the journalists and politicians dont want the people to freak out. Of course in the schools they tell them that this has NOTHING to do with iSSlam the so called religion of peace killing everybody in the whole world.

  10. Roger says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 4:28 pm

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Wolves_(organization)

    Germany has 10 000+ Turkish Grey Wolves members living there. This is a nationalistic terror organisation that has/is taking part in terror attacks, last one was the recent Thai Buddhist Temple bombing.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 17, 2015 at 5:39 pm

      The Grey Wolves are only one Jihad terror group of many–ISIS, Al Qaida–not to mention all the “lone wolves” out there.

      • Roger says

        Nov 17, 2015 at 6:19 pm

        The grey wolves are not an illegal organisation to be a member of nor has the organisation been banned in Turkey or Germany or any other Western nation.

        10k is a large number of potential militia fighters Germany could possibly have to deal with in future.
        Let alone their supporters and direct physical support from Turkey.

        Read the link, they are monitored and branded as extremists in Germany but they are openly spreading jihad across the Caucasus and syria and defending islam across europe

        Isis, al qeda etc are proscribed illegal organisations.

        Interesting that the Grey Wolves haven’t been banned across the western world…….again, Turkey’s strategic location as a buffer to Russia and Turkey’s influence within NATO.

  11. DeMolay says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 4:31 pm

    On this occasion non story. No bombs etc found. This story was misinformation. A bit like the Muslim security guard claiming to have prevented the suicide bomber entering the stadium then it turned out he wasn’t even there!

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 17, 2015 at 5:43 pm

      DeMolay wrote:

      On this occasion non story. No bombs etc found. This story was misinformation.
      ………………………….

      DeMolay, the *first* bomb threat was a hoax–the ambulance bomb *was not*. From the MailOnline story above:

      “Germany friendly with Holland cancelled 90 minutes before kick-off after ‘bomb truck disguised as ambulance’ was discovered as police confirm device was to be detonated inside the ground”…

      “Referring to another bomb threat about an hour beforehand that turned out to be a false alarm, he said, ‘After the first object turned out to be harmless, we got a tip that had to be taken seriously that an attack was being planned.’…”

      • DeMolay says

        Nov 17, 2015 at 5:50 pm

        Ah OK. Thanks for the update.

      • Martin says

        Nov 17, 2015 at 6:10 pm

        You are wrong:

        From the MailOnline article above: [Lower Saxony Interior Minister Boris] “Pistorius said there was no confirmation of rumors that an explosive device was placed in an ambulance or another vehicle inside or outside the stadium.”

        • gravenimage says

          Nov 17, 2015 at 7:31 pm

          The article also says that police confirmed that there was such a device:

          Germany friendly with Holland cancelled 90 minutes before kick-off after ‘bomb truck disguised as ambulance’ was discovered as *police confirm device was to be detonated inside the ground*. (Emphasis mine–GI)

          The New York Daily News reports:

          “The German newspaper Kreiszeitung reported there was an ambulance filled with explosives outside the stadium, a detail officials have not confirmed.”

          It may be that Kreiszeitung was mistaken–or it may just mean that officials are slow to confirm this.

          http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/soccer/germany-netherlands-soccer-game-evacuated-canceled-article-1.2437889

  12. Martin says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 4:47 pm

    “German soccer match canceled after police discover bomb truck disguised as ambulance”
    I believe that is a canard. I cannot find this information in German news.

    • marc says

      Nov 17, 2015 at 5:02 pm

      They don’t call them the “lying press” over there without good reason http://www.dw.com/search/en/lying+press/category/9097/

      We have some serious bias issues here, but Germany has something even worse going on.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 17, 2015 at 7:43 pm

      Martin, this story *has* been covered by the German press.

      Kreiszeitung reported this story, as has Sky Deutschland.

      https://twitter.com/kreiszeitung/status/666695147644715008

      There are probably other outlets.

  13. Martin says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 4:56 pm

    “Police chief Volker Kluwe said there … that there had been ‘serious plans to cause an explosion’.”
    Yes, he said that. But he did not tell that an explosive device had been found.

    • marc says

      Nov 17, 2015 at 5:34 pm

      maybe they mean some other device “He added that a device was intended to be detonated inside the HDI Arena which has a capacity of 45,000”

      • Martin says

        Nov 17, 2015 at 5:48 pm

        Please read here (the Hannover police on Facebook):
        https://www.facebook.com/Polizei-Hannover-aktuell-289267767806104/

        Quote (39 min ago): “Seit der Absage des Spieles hat es einige Überprüfungen von verdächtigen Gegenständen gegeben, die sich alle nicht bestätigt haben – d. h. es wurde kein Sprengstoff gefunden.”
        That means that no explosives have been found.

  14. quotha raven says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 6:09 pm

    I find this article inconclusive and look for a follow-up soon with some more details and more clarity.

    That said, a few weeks after 9/11/01 I was speaking with a medic from Dutchess Cty NY who had volunteered to work at Ground Zero. He told me about the nightmare created by the possibility of some fire trucks and ambulances being hijacked and re-fashioned as bomb carriers. I had never heard of such a thing, and I have never heard this idea expressed anywhere since…until now, when it is (rather vaguely, “according to reports.”) alleged, perhaps by the Hanover police chief, Volker Kluwe, although this is not clear, that an ambulance housed a bomb destined for a terrorist attack on the football game.

    My own admittedly limited context for knowing anything about ambulances being converted into terror-mobiles makes me think this might well be true.

    However, as I write this, I am hearing on Fox radio news that “no bomb was found”.

    What is one to believe?

    Cheers!

    Quotha Raven

    • Cecilia Ellis says

      Nov 17, 2015 at 6:17 pm

      Quotha, Hamas did the same thing years ago with ambulances — provided by the United States — to approach Israeli targets. The ambulances were packed with explosives, known as VBIEDs (vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices). Nothing is too depraved for those who desire to kill for Allah.

      • quotha raven says

        Nov 17, 2015 at 8:02 pm

        Cecilia – Very interesting. I hope I made it clear that the medic from Dutchess Cty who first informed me of such activities involving ambulances was totally credible, and thus what he said supported the suggestion that an ambulance with a bomb had been discovered at the Hannover (The German Hannover, btw, is spelled with two “n”s,auto spellcheck notwithstanding.) game.

        Thanks for your additional input, Cecelia. It also appears that a lot is happening right now in Germany that we across the pond are not hearing about. See somebody’s earlier comment here about the German media, said to be more compromised that ours.

        Cheers!

        quotha r

        • quotha raven says

          Nov 17, 2015 at 8:04 pm

          correction – typo – more compromised THAN ours…

        • Cecilia Ellis says

          Nov 17, 2015 at 8:07 pm

          Quotha, you were perfectly clear and right on! Also agree with your comment regarding the German media.

    • Oliver says

      Nov 17, 2015 at 7:29 pm

      Besides ( and recently) trying to use ambulances as bomb carriers in Israel, I BELIEVE that they also tried to do the same in Sinai, and kill Egyptians.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 17, 2015 at 7:45 pm

      Yes–using ambulances for this purpose is especially heinous.

    • Charli Main says

      Nov 18, 2015 at 2:39 am

      Ambulances have big red crosses on them and are therefore offensive to Allah/Mohammed, making them legitimate targets for destruction by Muslims.

  15. Kev says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 7:10 pm

    The police have actually held a conference stating that there were no explosives found in the area of the stadium, and that a German newspaper had reported incorrect information regarding the ambulance.

  16. Oliver says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 7:30 pm

    And next week, or in two weeks or whatever, there will be a threat, and the germans will ignore it. But, then it will be for real, and hundreds or more will be killed.

  17. Annak says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 8:19 pm

    Its got nothing to do with Islam because it has everything to do with the New World Order

  18. Mathew Solo says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 10:09 pm

    Remember The German People…Look for a very Persuasive and potent leadership rising amongst them even now…so completely different from the present leadership…Other Countries Will Join Them…The Roman Catholics … The Protestants …Eastern Orthodox can put aside any differences…This may lend support to a powerful organized multi-national Alliance…watch what This Power Does… In the Middle East some Broad Leadership should form there and This Power may try to cooperate with this Middle Eastern leadership…until it is provoked…then watch the result…a whirlwind is coming….Watch and see…Remember The German People…Never Underestimate Them…they have been known to go from one mode to a completely different mode rapidly and decisively…Watch Who is willing to ally with them…it could be so formable…and determined to project its power.

    I might be wrong on the details…But I am Still watching…the potential is there.

  19. Andy H says

    Nov 18, 2015 at 5:16 pm

    We really need to keep Guantanamo open and perhaps enlarged a bit and turned into an insane asylum for the likes of Merkel, Obama, young Trudeau, the British PM, the whole Swedish government – there really is no shortage of these fruitcakes who, in a sense, are as dangerous to the world as ISIS itself.

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