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Islamic State threat prompted New Year’s Eve closings of Munich train stations

Jan 1, 2016 7:09 pm By Robert Spencer

The whole world on edge. The Qur’an commands Muslims to “strike terror in the enemies of Allah” (8:60), and the cowed and frightened West is showing that it’s working.

Munich train station

“Suicide attack threat prompted Munich train station alert,” by Frederik Pleitgen, Ben Brumfield and Margot Haddad, CNN, January 1, 2016:

(CNN)Police in Germany said Friday a New Year’s Eve terror alert that closed two busy Munich train stations was prompted by the threat of suicide attacks linked to ISIS.

It was not immediately clear exactly how the alert was linked to the terror group.

Threats were made against the central Hauptbahnhof station and the Pasing station west of the city, Police Chief Hubertus Andrae said.

The stations were evacuated on Thursday evening and service stopped for around eight hours.

Authorities told the public additional officers were being called in to find possible suspects. On Friday, 100 additional officers were still on duty, Andrae said.

The information police received referenced five to seven possible attackers and included personal information for some of them. Those details included names and referred to both Syrian and Iraqi nationals, the chief said.

Initial police checks of the information turned up nothing, and no one has been detained, Andrea said.

Another country’s intelligence agency reported the plot and the ISIS connection to German federal police, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann told journalists. Andrae would not confirm reports that the intelligence that sparked the alert came from U.S. and French intelligence.

Early Friday, police allowed both train stations to reopen, they announced in a tweet….

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  1. Jay Boo says

    Jan 1, 2016 at 8:26 pm

    With so many Germans kissing Muslim butts it seems unlikely they will attack Hitler’s old hangout.
    http://www.tracesofevil.com/2008/01/munich-reich-press-office.html

    Then again with Merkel raising expectations so high and then considering temporarily restricting unlimited inflow of Muslims ISIS may be warning Germany to bow again to Allah or else.

    • Mitchell says

      Jan 2, 2016 at 7:08 pm

      Interesting site- it actually shows how Hitler envisioned Munich’s main station and what’s left of it today through some interesting gifs

  2. Peter says

    Jan 1, 2016 at 10:01 pm

    Heil Muhammad!
    Sieg Islam!

    Thomas Mann (Der Zauberberg):
    „Toleranz wird zum Verbrechen, wenn sie dem Bösen gilt“
    (tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil).

  3. Matthieu Baudin says

    Jan 1, 2016 at 10:42 pm

    It is their aim, at their own will, to grind our activities to a halt. This is the Urban Guerilla Warfare that ISIS has instigated with a view to a long term campaign operating from small independent cells. In France, I think circumstances have moved sentiments past the stage of ‘annoyance’, and the state, with its independent defence establishment, is truly now engaged in war with this elusive foe. The Germany of Madam Merkel seems to be still floundering along wishfully believing that these disruptive activities are manageable annoyances and that life can continue along much as before. And this is also where Obama’s America seems to be stuck, somehow wishing that it would all just go away; one has to wonder how the nation has managed to airbrush the 9/11 civilian slaughter out of its historical consciousness.

    • Jay Boo says

      Jan 1, 2016 at 11:19 pm

      Step 1 (extortion threats)
      The openly radical Muslims will hint that to resist catering to Muslims and asylum seeking Muslims will invite more attacks.

      Step 2 (twisted logic)
      The “moderate” imams in Germany will caution that to stop flow of refugees is to give the terrorists what they want.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Jan 2, 2016 at 5:44 am

      This is a war. Islamic State has declared it. Armoured cars are in the squares and troops on the streets. Police are being openly armed. Events are cancelled, cities put into lockdown, stations closed.

      This is self-evidently a war. The one thing, though, that Western leaders will not do is to say so.
      Denial and pretence are their public response, even as they increase budgets for intelligence gathering.

  4. Westman says

    Jan 2, 2016 at 3:18 am

    There is a solution that governments will never allow yet is the only permanent solution to terrorism and Jihad. Arm the citizens, remove political correctness from civil law, and never cancel anything out of fear.

    This would render civil government protective services, though already ineffective and delayed, somewhat redundant, yet still useful after the fact. When seconds count, they will be there in only minutes.

    There is an element of aristocratic ego, desiring dependent citizens, that continually messages that only big government can solve problems and protect the people. They, frankly, don’t care if some citizens die in order to keep themselves in office. They govern by statistics which ignores the anecdotal prices paid by individual citizens. They literally govern by polls.

    Terrorism will never be stopped by big government due to the law of diminishing returns. The larger DHS becomes the less effective it will be; most of its funds going for supporting its own infrastucture and administration. The effort to locate the needle in the haystack by making larger haystacks is destined to increase vulnerability. DHS can’t even keep terrorist suspects off its own payroll.

    Without enlisting the citizens the terrorism will never stop. If they actually felt their efforts were wanted and mattered, patriotic citizens might even take less interest in the Kardashians.

    • Westman says

      Jan 2, 2016 at 10:20 am

      In case anyone thinks I might be gun advocate, I don’t even own a gun. It’s simply logical that only citizens can protect themselves from cell and random violence in the early moments of that violence.

      Arming citizens means more about educating them and the protective services about the actual ideology of Islam used by Jihadists to justify their actions than arming citizens with physical weapons.Throwing out the training of knowledgeable people like Mr. Spencer gave a green light to misdirection by Islamic apologists and put our citizens at greater risk.

      Arming citizens also means government replacing the ridiculous, “If you see something, say something, but we won’t protect you from repercussions; you’re on your own”, with “Here is a list of activities for which citizens should watch, and if reported, the government will protect the citizen against all lawsuits and attempted retaliation.” Hundreds have died because others were afraid to report activity.

      Don’t hold your breath. If you died from apoplexy over the situation, it wouldn’t cause a quiver in the poll meter of politicians. If it doesn’t affect the probability of reelection or put the pleasant life of aristocracy in jeopardy, it won’t result in change.

    • Billy Wright says

      Jan 2, 2016 at 11:58 am

      The only way to permanently end the jihad threat is the way Ferdinand and Isabella did it in Spain in the 15th Century – give Muslims two options. They can either convert to Christianity or they can leave.

      Might not be seen as practicable today, but as long as you have significant numbers of Muslims, you will have jihadis.

      And the more Muslims you have, the more jihadis they will produce.

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Jan 2, 2016 at 4:46 pm

        You wrote – “…as long as you have significant numbers of Muslims, you will have jihadis.

        And the more Muslims you have, the more jihadis they will produce.”

        Yep.

        Got Muslims? – Sooner or later, Got Jihad.

        Therefore, the logical conclusion for all Infidel-majority Infidel-government countries, **worldwide**, first-world AND third-world, western *and* eastern, should be thus: “We don’t let any more Muslims into our countries no. matter . what” and “We find some way of moving out the ones we’re currently afflicted with”.

        Muslims inside *any* non-Muslim country = Fifth Column of the Ummah or Mohammedan Mob, the de facto Empire of Islam.

  5. Michael Copeland says

    Jan 2, 2016 at 5:25 am

    It is not possible to protect against suicide bombings. Cancelling events and closing locales will, it is true, prevent there being victims there, but these are not viable long term strategies: people need to travel and to gather.
    This is a war. Strong swingeing reprisals are called for. Islamic State’s handbook is titled “The Management of Savagery”. Savagery has no place in the West.

  6. Tommo says

    Jan 2, 2016 at 5:55 am

    The cost to the state to keep us safe is escalating out of hand. Hundreds of police are employed to guard government buildings, railway stations, shopping centres and events such as the New Year fireworks display. Not only is the cost of employing so many extra security forces high, an additional cost of surveillance and security planning and equipping is running into millions. This is the burden placed on us by Islamic savagery and governments living in denial of the intent of Muslims they insist in allowing into our countries.

  7. epistemology says

    Jan 2, 2016 at 4:28 pm

    The Germans reaped what they sowed. I don’t feel any compassion. They let all the muzzies in and the other Europeans are not amused.

  8. Glen says

    Jan 4, 2016 at 4:58 pm

    We will carry on life as normal, those nasty people who have nothing to do with the RoP will never beat us, we’ll light candles, we’ll hug people to death, we’ll……what’s that? A threat?…ARRGHHHH, run away, close the whole town, shut the shops the airports and the train stations…hide under the tables and keep quiet and maybe they’ll leave us alone!!

    Those lefties are soooo brave aren’t they!!

  9. Angemon says

    Jan 5, 2016 at 10:58 am

    Police in Germany said Friday a New Year’s Eve terror alert that closed two busy Munich train stations was prompted by the threat of suicide attacks linked to ISIS.

    Too bad they didn’t threat to bomb a police station – that seems to acatually get people arrested.

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