One thing you can count on from terrorists: They will eventually get around to trying to kill people in every nation on earth.
This time, it was Germany's turn.
Two suitcases containing bottles of gasoline, propane gas and a detonating device that were found abandoned in German regional trains last month were bombs primed to go off and kill a ``high number'' of people, police said.
``We're accusing as yet unknown suspects of having tried to ignite unconventional flammable and explosive devices on July 31, 2006, in the cities of Dortmund and Koblenz with the aim of killing a high number of people,'' Federal Prosecutor Rainer Griesbaum said at a press conference in Wiesbaden, Germany, today. The perpetrators are suspected of being members of a ``domestic terrorist organization,'' Griesbaum said.
A suitcase found abandoned on a regional train from Aachen to Hamm in western Germany was turned in by the train's conductor in Dortmund. It contained a propane gas bottle, three bottles filled with gasoline and a detonating device, the Federal Prosecutor's Office said Aug. 1. On the same day another piece of luggage was found on another regional train from Moenchengladbach to Koblenz about 75 miles to the South. It too contained a propane gas bottle.
``We have to take this event very seriously,'' Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said in a faxed statement today. ``We have to expect that the danger of a repeat attempt still exists.''
Is everyone in the decent, civilized world ready to unite and fight the cancer of terrorism yet, or will we have to suffer many thousands more casualties before we get serious and start pulling together?
Here are blurry -- but better-than-nothing -- images of the suspects in the attempted German train station bombing:
Germany was a favorite playground for Commie terrorists not so long ago. Now the Islamists find it fertile ground as well. No surprise there. Will Germany get the point? Or will they go all "Spain" on the terrorists?
Posted by: benning | August 20, 2006 at 05:19 PM