Der Spiegel has the inside gouge (and really, rather more about specific law enforcement techniques than one could hope for):
Operation Alberich began last October, when the US National Security Agency, the NSA, began intercepting suspicious emails between Germany and Pakistan. It ended last week in the central German Sauerland region, with the arrests of two German converts to Islam, Fritz Gelowicz, 28, the son of a southern German doctor, and 22-year-old Daniel S., who had learned how to handle weapons during his military service in the western German city of Saarlouis. His neighbors in nearby Saarbr?ºcken had noticed that he prayed to Allah “often and very loudly.” The third man arrested in the sting was Adem Y., a 28-year-old Turkish national. The trio was caught in the act of mixing chemical ingredients to make explosives at a vacation house in the mountainous Sauerland region.
It’s a tale of close cooperation and coordination between nations and agencies which averted a devastating attack, or series of attacks. We were good this time.
We have to be good all the time, though: The hate crowd only has to be lucky once.
The “hate crowd” has had FAR too much luck in the past 30 years…it’s about time we won one for OUR side.
Keep ‘em coming.
Wait, you mean to tell me that there are reasons for NSA wiretaps other than to advance Bush’s mad quest for power? And some dozens or hundreds of innocent people (not just people but foreigners, who we all know are better than us evil Americans) are still alive because of it?
But that can’t be, because MoveOn and the Democratic Congresscritters have been saying otherwise for so long.
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