"Germany convicts 4 of ‘bloodbath’ plot" by Melissa Eddy, Associated Press | March 5, 2010
DUESSELDORF, Germany - Two German converts to Islam and two Turks were found guilty yesterday of plotting a thwarted attack that a judge said could have killed large numbers of US soldiers and civilians in “a terrible bloodbath.’’
The four defendants received reduced sentences ranging from five to 12 years because they agreed to detail in wide-reaching confessions how they were recruited, trained, and persuaded to carry out the attack by the radical Islamic Jihad Union.
The case rattled the public in Germany, which has not seen a large-scale terror attack, and highlighted the allure of Islamic extremism to disillusioned young people in the West.
I guess they are due for one then, huh?
“Increasingly, violent Islam has a devastating pull over young people in our society,’’ Judge Ottmar Breidling said in his ruling, calling international terrorism “the scourge of our time.’’
Just today, or.... ??
“This case has shown with frightening clarity what acts young people who are filled with hatred, blinded, and seduced by wrong-headed ideas of jihad are prepared and able to carry out,’’ he said.
You mean like the Zionists of Israel, too, right?
The four men operated as a German cell of the radical Islamic Jihad Union, a group the US State Department has said has ties to Osama bin Laden and fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar. They plotted to attack American soldiers and citizens at facilities including the US Air Force’s Ramstein Air Base in Germany, the Duesseldorf state court found.
Had they succeeded, “there would have been a terrible bloodbath with an incredibly high of number of dead and injured,’’ including civilians, Breidling said.
Defendants Fritz Gelowicz, 30, and Daniel Schneider, 24, both German converts to Islam, were convicted of membership in a terrorist organization along with Turkish citizen Adem Yilmaz, 31. Attila Selek, a 25-year-old Turkish citizen, was convicted of the lesser charge of supporting a terrorist organization.
All four also were convicted of conspiracy to commit murder and preparing an explosive device with the power equivalent of 904 pounds of TNT.
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I'm sorry, readers, but it ALL SMELLS of BULLS***!!!
And here is a kind of party you don't want your pooper in, kids:
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"See Vatican pair removed in homosexual prostitution inquiry.
Pope Benny is the wildest party-Pope since Pope Alexander VI!" -- Wake the Flock Up
Also see: Berlin to German speakers: Danke!
For what?
