BERLIN, Germany (AP) – Germany is home to between 3,000 and 5,000 potential Islamic suicide attackers, a senior security official touted as the country’s next interior minister has been quoted as saying.
Guenther Beckstein, currently interior minister in the German state of Bavaria, said on Monday in an interview with the online Netzeitung newspaper that he was worried small cells of “fanatics” could prepare attacks without detection.
“In Germany we have between 3,000 and 5,000 of these Islamists who are prepared to use violence and do not shrink from suicide attacks,” Beckstein was quoted as saying.
He said they included individuals who are ready to fight in Iraq and Chechnya.
Beckstein is widely tipped to become federal interior minister, the country’s top security post, if opposition conservatives win Sunday’s parliamentary elections.
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s Social Democrats are trailing in the polls.
Beckstein, a member of the conservative Bavaria-only Christian Social Union, argues that security laws toughened after the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States are still too soft.
Hi. I’m new. This is my first post. I’m wondering if you people think this is true or more ‘fear mongering?’ Could Germany be following Australias lead?
Stop scaring us new indiana guy person...even if there are 5000 suicide bombers, people deserve to be blown up because of what's happeing in palestine and kashmir and philippines and chechnya and xinjiang , wait, not china because they love us even if they kill us just the same, they do it out of love.
I have been lurking here for about a month. I can't tell you how much I was hoping you would answer my question Mr. Danda. I believe your words in this place ring with eternal wisdom in all things. I simply do not feel worthy to engage in dialoge with one so obviously enlightened.
Seriously. Why would me posting this be an attempt to 'scare' you? The thought never entered my mind.
CIA's new strategy: Scour the countryside for depressed, alcoholic, goth suicidial hippies and recruit them for a Crusade against sand niqqers. A tit for tat response.
Amanda, like, no longer, like, needs to slit her wrist, cuz, like, daddy wasn't there for chior practice. Now, you can, like, strap a bomb around your waist and take the first flight out to Ramallah.
spoiler: elections are rite around the corner. the more scared the germans the better chances of winning. they have learned this great trick from the great U-ASS-A
This Beckstein is nothing else but the german form of Rumsfeld ..... infact he would like to throw every non german muslim out of the country if the latter fails to comply with things like, Pray in german, Speak only German in Mosques, Let police install cameras in mosques and anywhere muslims may gather etc. etc. ..... he is part of a rightwing party (also called conservative) ...... but everyone know they r not far behond the right-wing ..... this Mr. beckstein is simply a vocal idiot ...... he would jump on every "Terror-Alert" bandwagon from the FBI, CIA etc. etc. and would claim that Germany is the utmost endangoured country ..... he has often made a mockery of himself in the media with his baseless mostly idiotic comments but he still opens up his trap
