September 07, 2002

Loose Talk Unraveled German 9/11 Anniversary Plot

An indiscreet remark helped police seize a suspected Osama bin Laden follower and his American fiancee who worked at a U.S. base as they plotted a September 11 anniversary attack, officials said on Saturday.
[...]"We have evidence that an attack was planned for September 11," Thomas Schaeuble, interior minister for the southwest German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, said on Friday night. "He seems to be a follower of Osama bin Laden who is deeply religious and harbors a hatred for Americans and Jews."

"According to our information she hated Jews as well."
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Officials said Eyzaguirre warned a friend working there to stay away from the store, which is on the closed military base, in the coming days. The friend told law enforcement officials who were then able to unravel the plot.

"One of her co-workers made the decision to go to the authorities," said Mitchell Edgar, a spokesman for the Army & Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES). "We applaud her for that."

We applaud her indeed for being unlike those murderous "Palestinian" Arab women who followed the bus that was going to blow up in Israel (knowing there was a bomb aboard), but who told and warned no-one.