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.
“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….