Report: Official says up to 5,000 potential suicide bombers in Germany

[sabra]

http://www.wstm.com/global/story.asp?s=3837868&ClientType=Printable

Report: Official says up to 5,000 potential suicide bombers in Germany

BERLIN A German security official is quoted as saying nearly five-thousand potential Islamic suicide attackers could be living in Germany.

The Bavarian interior minister (Guenther Beckstein) tells an online newspaper these include people ready to fight in Iraq and Chechnya. He says such cells of "fanatics" could prepare suicide attacks without detection.

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Beckstein has long argued that security laws toughened after the September eleventh attacks in the United States are still too soft.

[jpgray]

1. I have a list of more than 200 Communists working in the State Department

We need to crack down.

[cindyw]

2. Ohhhh, better invade Germany.

[Enraged_Ape]

8. Maybe can do it with the Salvation Army

That seems to be the only army we have now that isn't tied up in Iraq, Afghanistan, or the Gulf Coast.

[havocmom]

3. what was bush*s poll numbers yesterday?

expect more terra news

[RedCloud]

4. So if they all joined arms and spread across germany that day..

Yep all our terra dollars are going to waste. 5,000 and growing I suppose.

Remember when mayors could lose their jobs for allowing crime rates to increase? I bet if some heads start to roll for incompetence we will see that number back down to 50 or so.

[CentralEuropeanDude]

5. Beckstein will be new minister of the interior ...

if the conservatives (CDU/CSU) win the election on sunday.

[Javaman]

6. Hmmm, bullshit meter going wild...

So let's see, 5k, huh? so 10% of 5k is 500, and 1% is 50 so roughly if you want to marginalize the truly radical among the bunch at a 1/4 of 1% that would be roughly, 12.5 people. Given this number, one would think that there would have been at least 12-13 bombs blown up somewhere in Germany by now. In the here and now, that's quite a few bombs going off, so where are they?

[Bridget Burke]

7. Did he announce plans to round them up?

Are any of the old camps still standing?

[Demeter]

9. What An Admirable Census!

In this country, we can't even guess how many people as a whole we have! Nor even count the ballots properly!

[ToolTex]

10. And we can't even count dead bodies littering the streets!

n/t

[Kellanved]

11. Actually that is conservative pre-election anti-immigration fearmongering

Beckstein is hoping to get a cabinet position; xenophobic nonsense is the traditional conservative way to finish an election campaign.

[Lecky]

12. Interesting, how did this German security official come to the conclusion

that someone is a potential Islamic suicide attacker?

My bullshit bells are ringing...

[enigma000]

13. Here's a solution

Round up the offending suspects in question and ship them by train to . . .

um.... wait.... that rings a bell....