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With Germany going to the polls in a general election in three months, authorities are on high alert after detecting an increase in online warnings of terrorist attacks targeting the country...
...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 operatives Abu Abdul Rahman al-Najdi, who was born in Saudi Arabia, and a Californian convert to Islam, Adam Yahiye Gadahn...
...series of talks the government is holding regularly with different intelligence agencies. Another meeting, with federal Interior Ministry officials, is planned for July 9, aimed at coming up with a new national-security concept. While the government insists it has no knowledge of any concrete plans for a terrorist attack in Germany, it's clear the authorities are concerned that Islamic-extremist activity is intensifying. Germany's security forces have been on high alert since the beginning of the year, and government authorities believe that intelligence chatter about a possible terrorist attack on Germany has been getting louder...
...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 and Security Affairs, tells TIME. "We've seen...
...course, there was the black box of United Flight 93, which recorded 30 minutes of fearful struggle as passengers overpowered terrorist hijackers and crashed the plane into a Pennsylvania cornfield on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. United 93's passenger voice recordings were the only tapes ever to be made available to victims' family members...