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...start, says a German investigator focused on home grown Islamic radicals, the 1970s group and today's German terrorists share similar motives, including a deep-seated loathing of the U.S. and a passionate opposition to unpopular wars (Vietnam then, Iraq...
...Young men like Breininger are dangerous for what they can do, of course. But they are also dangerous for what they represent: the first generation of German terrorists since the Baader-Meinhoff gang formed the left-wing Red Army Faction (RAF) in the 1970s...
...Ulrike Meinhof, a RAF co-founder, told a German court in 1976 that her group's actions were directed against the U.S. military presence in the Federal Republic of Germany. U.S. bases in Germany were a lifeline to troops in Vietnam - U.S. bombers on their way to Hanoi made a stopover in Wiesbaden just as those same bases support U.S. troops in Iraq today. (See pictures of life returning to Iraq's streets...
...third man are alleged to have formed the core of a cell known as the Sauerland Group linked to the Islamic Jihad Union, an Uzbek terror organization with ties to al-Qaeda. The group is believed to have been focusing on striking at U.S. targets as well. German police say that they observed the men purchasing and storing highly concentrated peroxide, which Germany's federal prosecutor believes was for making car bombs. The police further allege that the men scoped out U.S. military facilities or clubs where they believed frequented by Americans, according to a summary of the federal prosecutor...
...Stefan Aust, a former editor of the German magazine Der Spiegel and author of the Baader-Meinhof Complex, was friends with Meinhof and some of the other 1970s radicals before they became terrorists. Reflecting on the emergence of Islamic terrorism in Germany, Aust says: "There is an uncanny similarity to what happened back then." If you take terrorists today "and imagine them 30 years ago, they would probably have wound...