Terror Plot in Germany

A commemoration of 9/11 is cancelled, with prejudice. From Der Spiegel:

The three suspected terrorists seized Tuesday were planning huge bomb attacks on targets in Germany. The bombs they were planning to make would have had more explosive power than those used in the Madrid and London terror attacks. [SNIP]

According to [German Federal Prosecutor Monika] Harms, the three men arrested Tuesday afternoon (more...) belong to a German cell of the terror group "Islamic Jihad Union" (IJU). They are accused of preparing terror attacks against US facilities in Germany.

The German authorities had been watching the suspects since January and waited until the suspects had all the components for the planned attacks before making the arrests. The probable targets? Ramstein Air Base and Frankfurt Airport, along with several other locations which Americans are known to frequent. The group had planned on producing a hydrogen peroxide bomb with the power of 1200 lbs. of TNT--surpassing the power of the Madrid bombings.

The authorities believed that the members of the cell knew about the surveillance and were shocked

when the group continued working on their plan even after the investigation was started. [SNIP] "That they nevertheless continued shows how determined they were," one investigator said. "We are dealing here with perpetrators who believe devoutly in what they were doing." The investigator also says that the men were prepared to sacrifice their lives to make their attacks a success.

Under the stating-the-obvious heading, the suspects are said to have a "profound hatred of U.S. citizens."