BERLIN – German police on Friday arrested three suspected members of the
al-Qaida terrorist organization who officials say posed a "concrete and imminent
danger" to the nation.
Authorities did not say whether the three had planned specific targets and
offered few details, but security officials said that all three suspects were of
Moroccan origin. They also said that two were arrested were in the western
German city of Duesseldorf and one in nearby Bochum. The arrests were based on
suspicion they were planning a terror attack, they said.
The arrests "succeeded in averting a concrete and imminent danger, presented
by international terrorism," German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich said
in a statement. They showed "Germany remains a target of international
terrorists." AP
