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RC Plane Attack 'Foiled,' Say German Authorities

Posted by timothy on from the they've-got-bruce-schneier-in-the-batcave dept.

garymortimer writes with this excerpt from Sky News as carried by Yahoo UK: "German authorities are holding two men of Tunisian origin who they say are facing possible charges for the 'preparation of a serious, state-threatening act of violence.' Prosecutors say the men are suspected of 'procuring information and objects to commit Islamic extremist explosive attacks with remote-controlled model airplanes,' prosecutors added. Police investigating the terror plot on Tuesday launched a series of raids in Stuttgart and Munich in southern Germany and Saxony in the east. They also carried out one raid in Belgium. No-one was arrested. The suspects had been under surveillance for more than a year and authorities had recently detected 'an increased interest in explosives and model aircraft,' according to an unnamed security source quoted by a German news agency."

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  1. Hyperbole, anyone? by Muad'Dave · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...state-threatening act of violence.

    Unless the model plane is the size of a 747 or the explosive is anit-matter, how is that a "... state-threatening act of violence." Is Germany in such dire straits that a single model aircraft can topple a whole country?

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    Tiller's Rule: Never use a word in written form that you've only heard and never read. You will end up looking foolish.
    1. Re:Hyperbole, anyone? by __aaltlg1547 · · Score: 3, Interesting

      They could attack government people and do significant harm to infrastructure.

      But here's the real question: they raided some homes and --- arrested nobody. So that makes me think that when they raided the homes, they found no real evidence and maybe there was no real plot. A bunch of Islamic guys who met at the mosque, send each other email and discovered a common interest in say, pylon racing and who also read e-news about bombings in their homelands does not constitute a plot against the government.

  2. What Is This Hypnotic Propaganda? by mrpacmanjel · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "..became radicalised by watching jihadist propaganda on the internet..."

    Became "radicalised"??!! WTF?

    You'd have to be mentally unstable in the first place to believe that kind of thing.

    The only "propaganda" is blaming the internet in the first place.

    Mind you I've seen Iron-man 3 so hey you never know.