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Trial reveals an Al-Qaeda cell in Dsseldorf
A recommended German article, although the Google translation is not perfect, on a current trial in Germany:http://ojihad.wordpress.com/2012/07/...werden-helden/
What is of note is how the primary suspect was identified:
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The profiles of hundreds of violent Islamists were analyzed. In the end, a man stuck in the grid....
There is no simple answer, and there are no quick answers
A superb FT article on the context for the neo-Nazi or extreme nationalist fringe in Germany and those who use violence:http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/dfda3010-3...44feabdc0.html
The article asks:
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What does the case reveal about the rise of the far right in the former GDR?.....the affair has also revived an equally fundamental concern: why has far right ideology gained a foothold in the former GDR, attracting young people who emerged from the wreckage of communism?
Interesting angle in:
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Bernd Wagner was an East German policeman who began hunting neo-Nazis in the East in 1964, long before unification, when he was based at Berlin’s infamous police headquarters in the Alex#an#d#er#platz.....now runs an organisation called Exit from a nondescript office in east Berlin, dedicated to helping young people escape from the far-right “scene”. “We are a contact group for people who want to break with their ideology,” he says. “We’re here to help them give up.” It is not an easy task. “Don’t think these are just young people. Today’s activists are 25 to 55. They have ‘recruiters’ in the music scene, the clubs and culture scene. It’s a spider’s web right across Germany.
IED at Bonn railway station
I'd not heard of this incident, but ICSR @ Kings College, London has provided a short commentary and asks:
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The wider significance of this incident will become clear once investigators have determined whether Abdirazak had succeeded in joining a foreign terrorist group, received training, and acted on its behalf. If not, this incident might be a further example of the strategy of “lone actor” terrorism, which has been actively promoted by Al Qaeda.
Link:http://icsr.info/2012/12/icsr-insigh...n-bonngermany/
West German Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysis and Reaction to the Red Army Factio
West German Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysis and Reaction to the Red Army Faction
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German Jihad: On the Internationalization of Islamist Terrorism
A new book by a respected author; this is the publisher's website:http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-2...0/german-jihad
The lady Nazi leader - of a three person cell
An interesting report, although probably familiar to Germans. 'German neo-Nazi trial gives insight into secret life of Beate Zschpe', sub-titled:
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To her neighbours in the quiet German town of Zwickau, she was the "friendly, sociable and generous" young woman who liked to drop by for a glass of prosecco. To her comrades on the German far Right, she was a smart, assertive and violent member of their secret terrorist militia.
Link:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...e-Zschape.html
"We have not gone away" - after an eighteen year gap
A statement by Gerry Adams about the Provisional IRA IRRC, but this time applies to Germany:
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Three fugitive members of a notorious communist terror cell who have been on the run for 18 years have been traced to the scene of a botched armed robbery. Police believe three people who held up a security van last summer are former members of the far-left Red Army Faction (RAF), also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang...The terror group disbanded in 1998...
Link:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...ime-scene.html