September 19, 2002

Germany bans 16 more Islamic groups under anti-terror laws

Germany outlawed another 16 organizations linked to a jailed Turkish militant Thursday, making use of anti-terror legislation passed after the Sept. 11 attacks to crush a network of Islamic groups the government considers a threat to domestic security and Germany's international relations.

Those EUro small sausages!
They won't fight with us in Iraq to remove Saddam according to their "fearless" Leader Gerhard Schroder, but they're frightened enough of Islamofacists already in their country to do this.

The government said the groups, spread from Tuebingen in the south to Osnabrueck in the north, were part of the Caliphate State organization run by Muhammed Metin Kaplan. That group, along with 20 affiliates, was banned last December under legal powers granted after the nation confronted the fact that the Sept. 11 attacks were plotted by Islamic extremists living in Germany.

I will give them credit for this: the Germans were WAY ahead of the curve on this one. I wish our government would follow their lead instead of trying to pick these dirt bags up a few at time, so that morons like Katie Couric can comment thusly,
"Aside from the fact that they were trained in Bin Laden's terror camps in Afghanistan, what proof do we have that they are terrorists?" (referring to the Buffalo Six who were just arraigned.)