Germany on Terrorism Watch

by Stephen Brown
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Germany is on a country-wide terrorism watch after is citizens voted in a center-right government under conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel in Sunday’s federal election. In days leading up to the election, Islamists had increasingly threatened terrorist attacks inside Germany, if Germans did not vote for withdrawal of their troops from Afghanistan.
To their credit, German voters would not be intimidated and elected Merkel who had stated German soldiers would probably stay in Afghanistan another ten years. But the terrorist threat to Germany was regarded as serious enough to warrant a travel warning from the United States government.
The most menacing, pre-election threat was made by a young al Qaeda spokesman dressed in western suit and tie with gel in his hair. Threatening Germans in a video from the wilds of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region, he said failure to vote the way al Qaeda wanted would cause Germans to suffer a “rude awakening.” A terrorist attack, he promised, would occur inside Germany within two weeks after election day.
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