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cClatchy Newspapers German considers increased spying on Muslims
By Matthew Schofield, McClatchy Newspapers 1 hour, 3 minutes ago
BERLIN — After thwarting what might have become a "massive" attack on American installations, German authorities will review ways to fight homegrown terrorists, including a proposal to allow Internet spying on all German converts to Islam.
The search for seven other suspected members of a German cell of the Pakistan -based Islamic Jihad Union continued into Thursday night, with investigators saying only that they knew whom they were seeking.
Anti-terror police arrested three men in a village in central Germany Tuesday, outside a vacation cabin where they were building a bomb. Germans were shocked to learn that two of the bombers were native-born and had common German names, Fritz and Daniel. All three were unemployed and living on German government benefits, but other details are sketchy.
Fritz came from an upper middle class background, and German media reported that he converted to Islam about 10 years ago. His mother was a doctor, his father owned a successful business, and he's married and attends a technical college in Ulm.............
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