{"id":56047,"date":"2017-02-09T19:10:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T18:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=56047"},"modified":"2017-02-09T19:10:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T18:10:35","slug":"nigerian-algerian-arrested-germany-plotting-terror-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/nigerian-algerian-arrested-germany-plotting-terror-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian, Algerian Arrested In Germany For Plotting Terror Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some 450 German special commandos made 12 co-ordinated raids <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_820020882\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Thursday<\/span><\/span><br \/>\nand arrested a Nigerian and an Algerian suspected of planning an imminent<br \/>\nIslamist attack, police said.<br \/>\nReuters reports that guns, munitions and a machete were recovered in the<br \/>\nswoop launched on the basis of indications of a \u201cpossible concrete<br \/>\nimpending terrorist attack\u201d by Salafists, ultra-conservative Islamists,<br \/>\nmostly in the university town of Goettingen.<\/p>\n<p>No concrete plans of a targeted attack or evidence of links to Islamic<br \/>\nState were found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe came to the conclusion that there was an imminent danger that had to<br \/>\nbe averted,\u201d Goettingen police chief Uwe Luehrig told a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>The men arrested were a 27-year-old Algerian and a 23-year-old Nigerian.<br \/>\nBoth were born in Germany and were neither refugees nor seeking asylum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was quite clearly a dangerous situation,\u201d Luehrig said. \u201cThey had<br \/>\nweapons and munitions. They could have staged the attack at any moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s BND foreign intelligence agency was one of several security<br \/>\nagencies that collaborated in the raids, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Prosecutor\u2019s office also said <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_820020883\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Thursday<\/span><\/span> that it had earlier<br \/>\nthis month charged three Syrian men, aged 18, 19 and 26, of having joined<br \/>\nIslamic State in the Syrian city of Raqqa.<\/p>\n<p>It said the three were send by the militant group with the possible goal<br \/>\nof carrying out an attack in Germany. They had applied for asylum upon<br \/>\narrival in 2015 and were arrested in September last year.<\/p>\n<p>Germany has been on high alert and there have been numerous police raids,<br \/>\nespecially since an Islamic State-inspired attack by a Tunisian refugee on<br \/>\na Christmas market in Berlin that killed 12 people in December.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_820020884\"><span class=\"aQJ\">On Wednesday<\/span><\/span>, a 36-year-old Tunisian asylum seeker was arrested on<br \/>\nsuspicion of planning an Islamist attack. 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