Breaking Fear: New Threat to US/German Bases

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Friday May 11, 2007 · 9:51 AM PDT

2007/05/11 · 09:51

ABC News is reporting this morning a breaking story that there is an imminent threat to the US/German opperated bases in Germany unless and Until Germany pulls out of the Nato involvement in Afganistan.

Law enforcement officials tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com that U.S. air marshals have been diverted to provide expanded protection of flights between Germany and the United States.

"The information behind the threat is very real," a senior U.S. official told ABC News.

German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schauble told reporters, "The danger level is high. We are part of the global threat by Islamist terrorism."

What strikes me as odd is the new infatuation with attaching bases. Has the target shifted from civilians (9/11, Bali) to military (Beruit in the '80's)?

Of particular concern, according to U.S. and German law enforcement officials, is Patch Barracks, the headquarters for U.S. European Command, near Stuttgart.

Security at all U.S. military and diplomatic facilities has been increased in the last month following reports that suspected terrorists had conducted surveillance of the Patch Barracks facility.

"The attack would be designed to create high numbers of casualties among both Germans and the US military," said ABC News consultant Richard Clarke, a former White House counterterror official.

Interestingly this is in Germany, where the rule of civil rights still holds true...

"In a democratic state like Germany, you just can't go out and arbitrarily arrest people because they are under suspicion," Pratt said.

If only it were this way in the USA where we like to set up our terrorists, ala Fort Dix... where entrapment is a developing concern with some of the terror suspects not seeming to be too terrorist like... and basically partaking in notifying law inforcement about potential terrorism before themselves being accused of terrorism...

Also, one of the men, [Serdar Tatar, 23], called a Philadelphia police officer in November, saying that he had been approached by someone who was pressuring him to obtain a map of Fort Dix, and that he feared the incident was terrorist-related, according to court documents.

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