U.S. and German officials fear terrorists are in the advanced planning stages of an attack on U.S. military personnel or tourists in Germany.
Law enforcement officials tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com that U.S. air marshals have been diverted to provide expanded protection of flights between Germany and the United States.
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Of particular concern, according to U.S. and German law enforcement officials, is Patch Barracks, the headquarters for U.S. European Command, near Stuttgart.
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The 9/ll hijackers planned their operation out of Hamburg, Germany, and the country continues to be known as a staging area for al Qaeda and groups affiliated with it.
“There are 300 to 500 people who are suspected to be part of al Qaeda cells in Germany,” said Col. Andrews Pratt (Ret.) of the George Marshall Center in Germany.
“In a democratic state like Germany, you just can’t go out and arbitrarily arrest people because they are under suspicion,” Pratt said.
The whole irony of this is that the American military continues to occupy Germany. Our occupation exerts subtle pressure on the German body politic to continue and promulgate racially egalitarian policies, and that itself is the reason why Germany is a hotbed of AQ cells, which, as you read, helped plan 9/11 from there, and now wants to hurt American military installations in the country.
Not only that, the American State Department is seeking to undercut right-wing nationalist European political parties, who would crack down on radical Islam on their own home fronts. Instead, our great idea is to help the very people that would bomb our German military bases.
If one wants to imply, that Col. Pratt means with his last statement that the American military would pressure the German government not to engage in racial profiling against Middle Eastern Muslims, and the result of that would be that the George Marshall Center would get blown to pieces, the irony would be even more stark.
Bring the American troops stationed in Germany home, and put them on the Southern Border. That way, we will be more secure, and the German government can help us and themselves be more secure from terrorism.
UPDATE 2:20 PM: The German government does want to help us fight terrorism. If they were as “anti-American” as some people in this country claim they are, then they would have never bothered to prosecute men who used Germany as a base to execute a terrorist attack on American soil.
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