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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