Tag: Germany

A spy-vs.-spy race to secure naturally enriched uranium from Congo to fuel the Manhattan Project and keep the rare mineral out of Nazi hands.

The more IEDs you train on, the better you are prepared for the field.

Believing he was answering a holy call, Harry Sarfo left his home in the working-class city of Bremen last year and drove for four straight days to reach the territory controlled by the Islamic State in Syria. He barely had time to settle in before members of the Islamic State’s secret service, wearing masks over […]

As hundreds of police officers hit the streets of Munich last month fearing a terrorist attack, Germany’s defense minister broke a national taboo: She ordered soldiers to prepare to step in. After police found a lone teenage shooter, not a team of terrorists, killed nine victims and himself, the 100-strong army unit didn’t leave its base. […]

For the first time ever, the Bundeswehr is preparing joint exercises with the police to face terrorist scenarios in Germany. But despite conservative pressure, this decision will not require a constitutional amendment. Point four of the nine-point plan that Angela Merkel presented on Thursday to deal with potential terrorism suggested that Germany had crossed a […]

Special agents from the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command are investigating the theft of guns and other military equipment from a base arms room in Stuttgart, military officials said. “Several semi-automatic pistols, one small-caliber automatic rifle and a shotgun were among the items taken,” said Chris Grey, a CID spokesman. The Army did not identify […]

Germany’s Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian Radio) reports an explosion in Zirndorf, a small town near Munich. The so-called device appears to have been a suitcase stuffed with aerosol cans. It is reported burning remains of a suitcase was found in a garden and “several Arab-looking men” were seen fleeing from the scene. No motive is known. A police spokesman said there […]

The Islamic State on Wednesday claimed that suicide bomber who struck a southern German city had been an active fighter with the extremist group in the Middle East, and had drawn on his own expertise with explosives to craft the device. The militants’ Al-Nabaa newsletter published an obituary of the assailant, a Syrian asylum seeker […]

German police arrested a 16-year-old Afghan youth on Sunday on suspicion of a connection to the killing of nine people by an 18-year-old gunman in Munich, authorities said. The youth was under investigation for possibly having failed to report the plans of the gunman, who later shot himself, a police statement said. “There is a […]

At approximately 10:00 pm local time, a 27-year-old Syrian refugee detonated a suicide bomb packed with explosives and metal used in “wood manufacturing” (probably wood screws or bolts) inside a restaurant in Ansbach, Germany. According to the Bavarian interior minister Joachim Hermann, the man was denied asylum a year ago and has tried to commit suicide twice since then. The suicide bomber appears […]

An eye witness told the German newspaper, “The attacker was completely out of his mind. He ran with the machete behind a police patrol car.” He said a passing BMW managed to run him over and afterwards he “lay prostrate on the ground and didn’t move”.

He had been bullied at more than one school. He played violent video games, and developed a fascination with mass shootings. He kept a copy of the German edition of “Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters,” a study by an American academic psychologist, and he was treated for psychiatric problems. Somewhere along the way, Ali Sonboly […]