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...Pakistan on the border with Afghanistan where he received training in weapons and explosives and met Schneider, who later became one of the other operatives in the Sauerland cell. On their return to Germany, Gelowicz's lawyer says the men discussed a number of high-profile U.S. targets, like Ramstein Air Base. "They had clear goals - they wanted to kill U.S. soldiers in Germany and they wanted German troops to pull out of Afghanistan," Uden says. (Germany's Doubts About Afghanistan Grow After Revelations About Air Strike...
...Fritz Gelowicz, 30, and Daniel Schneider, 24, both Germans; Adem Yilmaz, a 31-year-old Turk; and Atilla Selek, a 25-year-old Turkish-German - had confessed to all of the charges against them. Prosecutors detailed how they had plotted to bomb U.S. military bases in Germany, such as Ramstein Air Base, as well as places like discos and pubs where U.S. service personnel were known to go. The attacks were planned for October 2007, just before a parliamentary vote was scheduled on extending Germany's troop deployment in Afghanistan. Had the men succeeded, Breidling said there would have been...
...prosecution charged that Nasr, an imam at a Milan mosque, was grabbed in the street, driven to the U.S. air base in Aviano, put on a plane to Ramstein in Germany, and thence to Cairo. He was released in 2007, after allegedly being tortured. Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, had been linked to the Egyptian terrorist group Jemaah Islamiah. But the Egyptian authorities brought no formal charges against...
...late afternoon, Obama was making the rounds of the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, the central clearinghouse for the wounded and sick among America's overseas military. In an average month, between 600 and 800 new patients are admitted, landing on planes at nearby Ramstein Air Force Base. Since the initial U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, the hospital has treated 10,820 battle wounded. While Obama toured the grounds, the public-address system played a children's nursery chime. It signaled that a woman at the hospital had just given birth; soldiers say it happens all the time. (See pictures...
...Atilla Selek, 24, and the one Turkish national, Adem Yilmaz, 30, were planning a series of car bombings in Germany that could have been deadlier than the attacks in London and Madrid. And according to prosecutors, the men had specific targets in mind: U.S. military bases including Ramstein, and Germany's biggest airport in Frankfurt, as well as discos, pubs and restaurants. So far, the suspects have remained silent, so their answer to these charges is not yet known. (See pictures of a Jihadist's journey...