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...Munich and converted to Islam when he was 16. Though he became a devout Muslim, he appeared to lead the life of a normal teenager - he even played quarterback on an American football team. Things changed, however, when he started visiting an Islamic center in the southern city of Neu-Ulm and found himself outraged over the photos of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq and the terror suspects being held at Guantanamo Bay. "This Islamic center was a meeting place for young Muslims and they felt a sense of belonging and security there," says Thomas Wandinger, a security...
...Turks came here to work," says Turan. "We were Gastarbeiter - guest workers. And there was work. But it changed very quickly after the Wall came down." As Ossis moved west in search of jobs, Turks found themselves ousted and isolated. Their children then refused to assimilate. In Kreuzberg and Neu Kölln, the Turkish flag is everywhere: in windows, on shirts, draped across shoulders and heads. "The kids are interested in Islam and think of themselves as Turkish," says Turan. "They say if the Germans don't want us, we don't want them...
...none are Arabs, and two are German citizens (though all are Muslims)—and thus wouldn’t have been snared by a simplistic campaign of racial profiling. Complicating things further, the preliminary stages of the plot were conducted in the neighboring towns of Ulm and Neu-Ulm, which, despite being on opposite banks of the Rhine river, are in different states and are policed by separate departments. But unlike in America, where, before 9/11, FBI agents in Minneapolis couldn’t easily communicate their concerns about a terrorist plot with their counterparts in Phoenix...
...Indeed, news reports suggest that one of two German converts arrested, a 28-year-old being identified as Fritz Martin G., was the leader of the busted cell. He is believed to have converted and come under the influence of extremists in the southern city of Neu-Ulm, whose large militant community has concerned officials for years. Investigators say the operational cells were formed after the trio had undergone training in Pakistan by the radical Islamic Jihad Union, and received periodic logistical support as they advanced their plot from a score of people also being sought. If accurate, that description...
...House”—but that song’s teenagers have matured into musicians on an uncool continent, jabbing back at the accented discotheque acolytes across the Atlantic. Which is funny, since Murphy owes a lot to European influences. They pop up everywhere: The Human League, Neu!, Bowie—the list goes on, and Murphy keeps self-consciously adding to it. But what else can he do? These are the albums he owns; it’s the music he likes; and making more of it is what he does best. So all Murphy...