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MariaThinks

(2,495 posts)
Thu Jun 2, 2016, 11:28 AM Jun 2016

Germany Arrests Three Syrians Over Suspected ISIS Bomb Plot

Source: Huffington Post

BERLIN, June 2 (Reuters) - Three Syrian men with suspected links to Islamic State have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of planning an attack here, the federal public prosecutor said on Thursday.

It said in a statement that 27-year-old Hamza C., 25-year-old Mahood B. and 31-year-old Abd Arahman A.K. had been arrested in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Brandenburg and Baden-Wuerttemberg. Their homes were being searched.

The federal public prosecutor also said that an arrest warrant had been issued for another Syrian man, 25-year-old Saleh A.

Two of the accused - Saleh A. and Hamza C. - had joined IS in Syria in the spring of 2014 and received the task from IS leaders to carry out an attack on the old town of Duesseldorf, a city in western Germany, the federal prosecutor said.


Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/germany-isis-syrians_us_57502ef3e4b0eb20fa0cd314

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Germany Arrests Three Syrians Over Suspected ISIS Bomb Plot (Original Post) MariaThinks Jun 2016 OP
Glad they were caught! I wonder how those three Syrian men came into Germany? Coventina Jun 2016 #1
refugees? MariaThinks Jun 2016 #2
Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany saidsimplesimon Jun 2016 #3
seems that way. MariaThinks Jun 2016 #4
How nice of them to show their gratitude! smirkymonkey Jun 2016 #5
Western colonialism made them do it. romanic Jun 2016 #6
also enabled the rapists at the soccer game. The suspects are from pakistan. MariaThinks Jun 2016 #7

saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)
3. Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
Thu Jun 2, 2016, 11:58 AM
Jun 2016

made a very generous offer to help Syrian refugees when other EU members were building fences. "No good deed goes unpunished"?

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