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Germany: Major Terror Attack foiled just in Time / Suspect a Syrian Refugee

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Update:
1. The German interior minister Lothar De Maiziere gave a short press briefer on the foiled attack of today.

2.
Terror suspect wanted to kill as many as possible
An original translation from Die Welt.

  • A Syrian was arrested on suspicion of preparing an attack motivated by Islamism. According to the federal prosecutor’s office, he had made up his mind to “kill a number of people, as large as possible”.
  • Thomas De Maiziere said that the arrest in Schwerin prevented “a grave terror attack”.

A Syrian was arrested in Schwerin on the strong suspicion of preparing an explosives attack, motivated by Islamism. This is what the federal prosecutor’s office announced on Wednesday morning (CET). Special forces of the Federal Police and the Federal Criminal Police Office were deployed in the action.

Additionally, the apartment of the suspect, and more apartments in Schwerin and in Hamburg were being searched, as Welt learned from police sources. One investigator told Welt: “The arrest of this man, particularly on Reformation Day, when there is a large event in Wittenberg with many top politicians, gives food for thought.”

According to investigations, the 19 year old accused is strongly suspected of having planned, and already concretely prepared, an islamistic-motivated attack in Germany with a highly potent explosive. Apparently, the authorities had the young man in their sights for a period of time. Already in July 2017, he had made up his moind to detonate an explosive device in Germany, to injure and kill a number of people as large as possible.

According to information by Die Welt, the Syrian Yamen A. came to Germany in October 2015. Currently, it does not appear that the 19-year-old already came to Germany with an order to prepare an attack. At the moment, [authorities] assume that he radicalized in the country.

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) accordingly came across suspicious commumication on the internet, which led to a Facebook profile. Upon this, according to security authorities, Facebook was asked to disclose the user data of the terror suspect, but it took a while, until the suspect could be identified without doubt, and, finally, localized. The data contained extensive chat communication with a person who is deemed an “IS follower” and who calls himself a “soldier of the Caliphate”. This is congruent with Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière (CDU) who pointed out the importance of the internet for the arrest.

The federal prosecutor’s office confirmed early Wednesday afternoon (CET) that the suspect had contact over the internet ot a person who called himself “soldier of the Caliphate”. “But we do not know who this person is, and we do not know if he encouraged him (the suspect) in his plans”, said Frauke Köhler, spokesman of the federa prosecutor’s office.

Therefore, at the moment, charges are not laid against the Syrian for membership in a terrorist organization, but for preparing a grave subversive crime [translator: “eine schwere staatsgefährdende Straftat”, a grave subersive crime, is the technical term for a terror attack in German Officialese], Köhler said.

Special forces arrested the 19 year old Syrian in the early morning hours under the suspicion of preparing an islamistic-motivated bomb attack. Apartments are searched in Schwerin, and in Hamburg.

At the moment, no hints to membership in a terrorist organization

He allegedly begun in July to gather technical components and chemics that are needed for building an explosive devicde. It were still unclear if the accused already had a concrete destination for his explosive attack. As for the moment, the federal prosecutor’s office would not yet have hints of a membership of the accused in a terrorist organization.

There have been repeated arrests in Germany of suspects who were preparing attacks out of Islamistic motivation. The latest was the arrest of a 40 year old last Wednesday in Berlin, whom investigating authorities deem a member of Islamist circles. In July 2016, a 27 year old Syrian refugee self-detonated on the square in front of a music festival, 15 people were injured.

The office of the federal prosecutor announced a release on the state of the investigations in the afternoon.

In lieu of any photo material of the arrest, a picture of the rather pleasant city of Schwerin; capital of the northeastern German federal state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. / (photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Note: we will be updating this post when new information comes in.

 

Italian psychiatrist and journalist decimates the usual deceptions on Islam and terror

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All of us reading from the Anglosphere. Ask yourselves if you have ever seen this quality of debate on TV ever on this subject.

Our own Buck left a comment under this video at Youtube which expressed my feelings on first watching it exactly. He, like I, was fully angered that BBC/CBC never would dare show something this honest or democratic in nature.

This one deserves to be spread as much for the amazing illustration of what the rest of us do not have, as much as the excellent content. Remember, chances are Youtube Sandboxes or otherwise grey lists this video in some way. Its up to us to spread it directly.

Thank you Elle for this translation.

 

Is this a terror attack in NYC?

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H/T ML

Sassy sends this update: No. It isn’t.

Convicted gun felon on parole tries to steal FDNY fire truck after causing seven-car pileup in Manhattan which injured nine people
(I wonder what a “gun felon” is though.)

Shocking video has captured a driver trying to steal an FDNY fire truck after causing a seven-car accident in Manhattan on Sunday.

The clip shows Devon Brandon, 36, dressed in a green T-shirt, arguing with firefighters in the front cab of the fire truck. 

He then frantically climbs into the driver’s seat as seven firefighters work to pull him out, causing the engine to shake.

The truck, which was stopped on 10th Avenue and 43rd Street, had been responding to the car accident when the incident occurred. 

 

A tale of two tweets

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Both of these tweets are from women with what appear to be Jewish names. I only point this out to show the irrelevance of it, as they are opposite in value and intention.

1. The Islamic State insists that the Vegas shooter is one of theirs and names him.

2. A Prof. in Canada gives a near perfect example of postmodern thought in order to deflect any responsibility from Islam for the jihad attack in Edmonton the other day, and make it about white supremacists. It is some of the most obnoxious intellectual slight of hand I have ever seen.

I responded:

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This is a brilliant example of the most pernicious of postmodern thought. Ignore what is true, reverse the onus of guilt, crisis exploited

The professor has made her tweet private now. Hopefully out of shame. Here it is:

Edmonton attacker and ethnicity named so police do not seem evasive

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From Global News:

Thirty-year-old Abdulahi Sharif of Edmonton is the man being held in connection with Saturday night’s vehicle attacks in Alberta’s capital, multiple sources told Global News.

Sources said Sharif is expected to be charged with five counts of attempted murder as well as terrorism-related charges after an Edmonton police officer was hit by a car and stabbed outside Commonwealth Stadium and several people were hit by a U-Haul van in downtown Edmonton.

From Edmonton Sun Twitter Feed:

 

Oktoberfest: Dramatic Drop in Visitors

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An original translation from German news magazine Focus.

Oktoberfest Munich
Disastrous Stats: This is the bitter balance of ‘Wiesn’ 2016
07.09.2017

The city of Munich has announced the accounting for the Oktoberfest 2016 in a statistics publication. Visitors, beer, bratwurst – there was a strong decline just everywhere.

Only 5.6 million visitors came to the largest volksfest in the world. A record low of the last 16 years. Affairs were bleak for the Wiesn-Innkeepers, too: only 66.231 hectolitres beer were drunk in 2016, 15 percent less than in previous years.
Bratwurst sales dropped from more than 500,000 to less than 300, 000.
Innkeeper Speaker Toni Roiderer cites the bad weather at the start of the Wiesn, and the fear of terror as reasons for the decrease.
But there is good news, too
But there is good news, too: The number of crimes and the number of rescue missions by paramedics and firefighters sunk, compared to previous years. And the number of crimes reported sunk by 25%, compared to the last five years. There were 15% fewer “drunken bodies” than in previous years.

Suspicious locals getting examined at the Oktoberfest gates. Why would a little control, a fence, and a bit of a terror alert, put anyone off from having fun, anyway? (photo: Merkur/Schlaf)

 

Berlin: Syrian ‘Unaccompanied Minor’ Arrested For Planning Terror Attack

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An original translation from Berliner Zeitung (B.Z.)

Arrest Warrant Against ISIS Sleeper
Youth Planned Terror Attack with Kalashnikov in Berlin
Berlin – September 4, 2017

A young Syrian is in court: he came to Germany to commit an attack: not an attack with knife or vehicle, but “something larger”.

The district court Halle has issued an arrest warrant in the case against a young terror suspect from Syria. The chamber substantiated this with flight risk. It stood to reason that the plaintiff, who is, according to his own statement, 16 years old, had not abandoned his attack plans, and could only put them into action by fleeing. The case was submitted to the Senate For State Security at the Supreme Court.
The case against the 16-year old was opened in Halle two weeks ago. Because of the young age of the plaintiff, the proceedings were not public. The Senate For State Security at the Higher Regional Court Berlin is in charge of terror offenses in Berlin, Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt.

Syrian Entered Germany in Autumn 2015 as Refugee
The youth is charged with preparing a severe subversive violent crime. The Syrian had entered Germany in autumn 2015 as unaccompanied minor refugee, and allegedly sympathizes with the Jihadi militia Islamic State (ISIS). The proceedings had begun in Halle end of August in closed session.

Did he plan a terror attack in Berlin as an ISIS sleeper?
The plaintiff had, according to charges, volunteered as a so-called sleeper for ISIS since he entered the Federal Republic [of Germany], by showing serious willingness to commit a terror attack in Berlin. Furthermore, he was collecting and distributing ISIS propaganda materials.

Moreover, he downloaded a 94-page manual for building a Kalashnikov from the internet to his mobile phone, with the intention to use it for an attack in Berlin.

Terror Plans: Building an Automatic Rifle, Constructing an Explosive Belt
According to investigations, he enquired in chats how to build an explosive belt without coming under suspicion.

He allegedly revealed to an informant of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution [German Intel – translator], who was working as a covert chat partner, that he did not come to Germany to live here, and neither to kill one or two people with a knife. Instead, he were planning something larger.

The Senates for State Security at the Supreme Courts are in charge of proceedings with such charges. The Senate for State Security at the Superior Court Berlin is in charge for the states Berlin, Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt.

Translator’s footnote:
German Justice Minister Heiko Maas’ famous statement of November 16, 2015 comes into mind:
“There is no connection, not a single traceable connection, between terrorism and refugees.”