The Anatomy Of A Foiled International Terror Plot

An interesting run-down of the Bush administration working with the CIA, the NSA and German officials (up to and including Chancellor Merkel) to stop a terror attack.This is a side of the war on terror the public doesn’t often get to hear about.With the help of the CIA, German investigators foiled what would likely have been the most devastating terror attack of its kind in the country’s history.The plans of a fanatical group of Islamists trained in Pakistan reveal just how great a risk Europe faces.Fritz Gelowicz is assumed to be the ringleader of the German terror cell.It was early June at the G-8 summit in the German seaside resort of Heiligendamm, and climate protection and hedge funds were the key issues on the agenda. But then there came the moment when the news of a potential terrorist plot reached Chancellor Angela Merkel.Not a word of it was mentioned in the summit’s official communiqués.Merkel and US President George W. Bush met alone to discuss what he called “the Pakistan matter. ”America felt threatened, and the threat,US intelligence agents told their president, was coming from Germany—once again, just as it had on Sept. 11, 2001.Bush,who was well briefed about the plot, even knew the names of the suspects. He made it clear to Merkel that he was taking the matter very seriously. Her officials at the Chancellery were all too familiar with what the US president was talking about. “Operation Alberich,” as the intelligence agencies called the case, had top priority.For months the operation was discussed almost every Tuesday at a weekly meeting conducted by Merkel’s chief of staff, Thomas de Maizière. What began with vague information soon turned into the biggest police operation since the so-called “German Autumn” of 1977—a political thriller rarely seen in postwar Germany.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...The President actively involved in the on-going investigation. The CIA helping German authorities track down the perpetrators. The NSA using decidedly non-ACLU-approved email-intercept programs to get intel on the bad guys. And how does it all come together? The bad guys are captured before they can perpetrate a major terror attack.Kind of almost makes you think that Bush and his people know what they’re doing with this terror stuff. http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/the_anatomy_of_a_foiled_international_terror_plot/

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