Arrests avert 'massive' bombs
Updated on 05 September 2007
Days before the 9/11 anniversary, security services in Germany arrest three men suspected of targeting US facilities there.
The threat was "imminent". The bomb attacks would have been "massive". And the targets American were facilities on German soil.
After six months of surveillance, Germany's security services arrested three men suspected of being on the brink of exploding co-ordinated car bombs only days before the anniversary of 11 September.
The two Germans and one Turk had amassed huge stocks of hydrogen peroxide - the same explosive used in the 7/7 and 21/7 attacks on London.
The arrests are thought to have taken place at a holiday home in the central German town of Oberschledorn. One suspect escaped from a bathroom window but was apprehended 300 yards away.
