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Islamist extremist suspected after bomb found at Bonn rail station
December 11th, 2012
07:45 PM ET
Islamist extremist suspected after bomb found at Bonn rail station
By Paul Cruickshank
German authorities suspect Islamist extremists were responsible for planting an
explosive device Monday beside a track at the main railway station in Bonn, a
German intelligence official tells CNN.
The explosives were found after a 14-year-old reported the bag to police,
according to the official, who said the device was "not sophisticated" in
design.
The official said whoever left the bag remains at large. Initially, German
police arrested two Bonn residents soon after recovering the explosive
components, the official said. The official identified them as Omar D., who's
long been on German security services' radar because of his alleged links to
Islamist extremists, and Abdifatah W.
Both, however, were released without charge after just a few hours in custody.
The official said authorities have not ruled out Omar D. as a suspect but do
not have enough evidence to hold him.
On Wednesday German police released a composite sketch of the suspected
perpetrator based on a description from the 14-year-old. A German official told
CNN the sketch describes a tall, thin, dark-skinned man in his early 30s.
Several German newspapers Tuesday reported that German police had arrested a
German citizen of Somali origin, identified as Omar D.
Yassin Musharbash, an investigative reporter at Die Zeit, told CNN that
security services had been aware of Omar D. for several years because he is
believed to have links to Islamist extremists in the Bonn area.
Omar D. and a Somali associate from Bonn were arrested by German police in 2008
at the Cologne Bonn Airport as they prepared to travel to Uganda, according to
a briefing prepared by the London based-International Centre for the Study of
Radicalisation. It stated that German authorities suspected the duo planned on
waging jihad in Somalia or Pakistan, but they were soon released.
Der Spiegel said the bag left at the Bonn station contained butane gas,
ammonium nitrate, a metal pipe, an alarm clock and batteries. Die Zeit's
Musharbash told CNN that according to investigators, an initial assessment
indicated that the device was rudimentary in design. He said it will probably
take several days to judge how dangerous the device was.
He said investigators had yet to find a detonator among the recovered
components, calling into question whether the device would ever have worked.
Based on a preliminary investigation, Musharbash said it should not be ruled
out that a bomb disposal team that responded Monday unwittingly destroyed the
detonator. Investigators are said to be looking into this possibility, but this
seemed like only one possible scenario, he said. A German intelligence official
told CNN on Wednesday that no detonator had yet been found but that a water
cannon used to make the device safe may have destroyed the detonator.
Musharbash told CNN it was not yet clear if the bombing attempt was merely the
work of homegrown "amateurs" or had connections to overseas terrorist groups.
In October 2011, a militant left-wing group claimed responsibility for placing
several incendiary devices on railway lines in Berlin. The German intelligence
official said that while it could not be completely ruled out that a similar
group left the explosives at the Bonn railway station, the nature of the device
found in Bonn was significantly different from the devices planted by the
left-wing group in Berlin. Whereas the Berlin devices had been built to disrupt
train services, the Bonn device, though it may never have been viable, appeared
to have been built to "blow people up" as they boarded or exited trains, the
official told CNN.
Terrorists inspired by or affiliated with al Qaeda have a track record of
targeting rail lines in Europe.
Several weeks after the Madrid bombings in 2004, the cell that carried out the
attack attempted to blow up a bridge on the Madrid-Seville high-speed train
line. The plot was abandoned after the terrorists realized they had been
spotted by nearby workers, who alerted police, a Spanish official told CNN. The
official added that hundreds could have been killed given the quantity of
explosives left at the scene.
In 2006, two pro-al Qaeda Islamists placed bombs on two commuter trains leaving
the Cologne area, but the attack failed when the devices didn't detonate.
Authorities later said the devices could have killed up to 70 people if they
had been properly constructed.
Intelligence materials recovered from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's
compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, revealed that in 2010, al Qaeda discussed an
idea to derail a train in the United States by obstructing tracks, several U.S.
officials told CNN.
Post by: By CNN Terrorism Analyst Paul Cruickshank
Filed under: Europe Germany Terrorism
© 2012 Cable News Network. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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