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...mission has become, a memorial service was held in the central town of Bad Salzungen on Thursday for three young soldiers killed in an attack near Kunduz, in northern Afghanistan, on June 23. They were the latest casualties of a war that has claimed the lives of 35 German soldiers. At the memorial, senior Cabinet ministers went on the defensive, pledging that German soldiers would stay in Afghanistan. "We're in Afghanistan because we have to protect the security of German citizens in Germany," said Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung. But that message is hard to sell in Germany...
...just concerned about the video messages," Deputy Interior Minister August Hanning told reporters after Thursday's meeting. "They're part of a wider strategy to take action against Germany." He stressed that authorities are taking the video threats seriously. "Germany and German citizens have for some time been a special focus for Islamist terrorists," he said. "We have to prepare for the fact there could be attacks against German installations abroad or here in Germany...
...According to authorities, recent intelligence shows a growing number of Islamic extremists leaving Germany to receive terrorism training at camps in Pakistan. Meanwhile, other reports have Islamic extremists setting off from Pakistan to carry out deadly attacks in Europe, possibly including Germany. According to a report on the German public television channel ZDF, intelligence officials received a tip in May that an al-Qaeda commando had left Pakistan to launch terrorist attacks in Western Europe. The commando is reported to be made up of 15 men - including Americans, Arabs, Chechens and four Germans - allegedly under the leadership of al-Qaeda...
...Sources at the Interior Ministry say they can't rule out the possibility that jihadist groups could be plotting an attack in the run-up to the election on September 27, or on election day itself, with the aim of pushing for a withdrawal of German troops from Afghanistan. Until now, Germany has been spared a major terrorist attack. But there is an ongoing and very real threat. German authorities say they have foiled at least six major terrorist plots since 2000. "Al-Qaeda has its eyes set on Germany," Guido Steinberg, an analyst at the German Institute for International...
...Amid fears of an imminent attack, German law-enforcement agencies are jittery and are set to tighten security at the country's airports and borders. Although government officials claim that Germany is well prepared to prevent a terrorist attack, the next few months leading up to the election will be tense times...