I’m not sure what to make of this latest busted terrorist plot in Germany:
BERLIN – Three suspected Islamic terrorists from an al-Qaida-influenced group nursing “profound hatred of U.S. citizens” were arrested on suspicious of plotting imminent, massive bomb attacks on U.S. facilities in Germany, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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Sudwestfunk televison, citing unnamed security sources in Berlin, reported that Frankfurt international airport and U.S. Ramstein Air Base were among the targets.
Ramstein is one of the largest U.S. airbases in the world. If the Cold War had turned hot, it would have been attacked by Soviet bombers and missiles. I don’t think a handful of guys with a few hundred pounds of explosives could do much damage.
Then again, the main base is probably surrounded by softer targets, and even just killing a few guards at a checkpoint would probably play as a win for the terrorists in all the places they care about.
Also, with the recent arrests of suspected terrorists in Denmark, there certainly seems to be a lot of terrorist activity going on this close to another 9/11.
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