Syrian suspect in Germany bomb plot found dead in cell
A Syrian man arrested on suspicion of plotting a jihadist bomb attack on a Berlin airport was found dead in his cell Wednesday after an apparent suicide, sparking outrage over a “judicial scandal”. Jaber Albakr, who was arrested two days earlier following a nationwide manhunt after police found explosives in his apartment, was discovered hanged in his jail cell in the eastern city of Leipzig, reported Germany’s Bild...
German Police Say Arrested Syrian Bomb Plot Suspect
German police said Monday they have arrested a Syrian man suspected of plotting a jihadist bomb attack, after a massive manhunt lasting almost two days. “We’ve succeeded, really overjoyed: the terror suspect (Jaber) Albakr was arrested overnight in Leipzig,” police said on Twitter about the 22-year-old. Source: AFP
German city on terror alert over bomb plot suspect
The German city of Chemnitz was in lockdown Saturday after armed police launched a huge manhunt for a Syrian suspected of planning a bomb attack, as the country grapples with a weakened sense of security following recent terror assaults. Police, who told people to stay in their homes, named the suspect as 22-year-old Syrian Jaber Albakr. Photographs posted on social media showed armed police clad in black balaclavas and helmets at an...
FBI: New York bomb suspect apparently acted alone
The suspect in the bombing this month in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood appears to have acted on his own, with no connection to an extremist movement, the FBI said Tuesday. “We see so far no indication of a larger cell or the threat of related attacks,” FBI director James Comey testified at a Senate committee hearing. The suspect in the September 17 bombing that left 31 people wounded, Ahmad Khan Rahami, was...
Paris … Women terror suspects and their failed plot
Here’s what we know so far about the women who apparently wanted to blow up a car near Notre Dame before allegedly planning an attack on Gare de Lyon train station. The French president said today that a terror cell had been “destroyed and an attack had been foiled”. Here’s what we know so far about three women who had planned the latest atrocity in France. Who are the women arrested? The three have been...
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