Al-Kaida targeting Germany
According to the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), the German equivalent to the CIA, so called Al-Kaida sleepers have plans to bring down an aircraft in or out of a major German TMA by means of shoulder fired missiles or radio controlled aircraft filled with explosives. The most likely target is believed to be FRA but although the threat is imminent no concrete plans have been discovered so far. Also no definition of the carrier targeted was made, though an Al-Kaida radio transmission intercepted in Afghanistan a while ago indicates that the main target is to inflict casualties and damage to a German city.
Bundesgrenzschutz (Border police) as well as the Bundeskriminalamt BKA, (FBI), are on high alert and the German airspace is being secured on a somewhat higher than usual level.
Source: Various German news media
Last edited by N380UA; 13th June 2002 at 09:14.