Njemačka Al-Quaida

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Germany has so far been spared a bloody Islamist terror attack. But it only took two planned attacks ... to persuade a majority of the population to support a massive dismantling of civil rights.
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In contrast to the United States (2,973 dead in 2001), Spain (191 dead in 2004), and the United Kingdom (56 dead in 2005), Germany has thus far been able to avoid an Islamist massacre on its territory. ... Al-Qaida strategists had good reason to want to spare Germany, given that Chancellor Gerhard Schröder had refused to follow President George W. Bush's lead.

...i sad tu slijede argumenti u prilog tvrdnji da to više nije tako. Odnosno, kako je realna opasnost da Njemačka postane meta islamskog terorističkog napada. Između ostalog:

Intelligence agents have also begun to note among Germany's homegrown terrorists the presence of young Germans who have recently converted to Islam. Many of these young converts feel the need to impress fellow Muslims by displaying extreme fanaticism.

...ali, poanta cijelog članka je...

Although the Italian mafia alone killed more people in Germany in a single year [2007] ... than all the Islamists living here have ever done [0], no other purported threat has made so many people willing to forfeit basic civil rights as the one evoked by the actions of Jihad and Fritz.

I još...

[Interior Minister Wolfgang] Schäuble initiated an effort to keep the issue in the headlines with a series of bizarre proposals that included allowing suspects to be tortured, issuing a license to kill persons who constitute a terrorist threat, granting permission to shoot down hijacked airliners and permitting use of the armed forces to fight terrorism within Germany's borders.

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