Germany's biggest terrorist trial of recent times has ended with jail terms of between 5 and 12 years for four Muslim radicals who plotted to blow up US military installations, airports and night clubs in the Frankfurt area.
"You planned a terrible bloodbath involving an incalculable number of deaths," said Judge Otmar Breidling, sentencing the men in a bomb-proof Duesseldorf courtroom. "There has never been an attack on such a scale on German soil, nor has any such plan been hatched."
The men, said Judge Breidling, were planning to bring the Islamic Holy war to the heart of Europe and spark explosions that would have been several times more destructive than the London Tube bombs of July 7, 2005. They collected about 750kg of hydrogen peroxide — the same substance used in the London attack — arranged for detonators and had scouted out targets. Thanks to electronic phone intercepts supplied by the CIA and a series of blunders by the plotters, the German police got wind of the gang, kept it under observation and secretly swapped the deadly chemicals for a harmless diluted mixture.
A whole 5 to 12 years behind bars for Muslim fanatics caught hatching a "second 9-11" ... don't we all feel safer?
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