Germany warns of terror nuclear attack 

Published: 3:08PM Sunday September 16, 2007

Source: Reuters

The risk of a terrorist attack in Germany, possibly even a nuclear strike, is high despite last week's arrest of suspected Islamist militants, Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told a newspaper.
   
"The terrorist threat has not diminished," Schaeuble told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, according to extracts published in advance.
   
"I am no less worried since the arrests. We know more precisely that we are in the crosshairs of Islamist terrorism...the terrorists want to carry out more attacks," he said.
   
Schaeuble even warned of the danger of a nuclear attack, although it was not clear if he was referring to Germany specifically.
   
"Many experts are convinced this kind of attack is a question of when, not if," he told the paper.
   
Last week, Germany said its security forces had foiled a plan by Islamist militants to carry out massive bomb attacks.
   
Police arrested three men suspected of belonging to an Islamist terrorist group and who, officials said, were planning strikes on Frankfurt international airport and a major US military base.
   
Schaeuble wants to introduce new measures to combat the threat from international terrorism, but opposition is high in Germany where curtailing civil liberties is very sensitive more than 60 years after the fall of Nazism.


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