Terrorism: Germany on high alert

BERLIN, March 15 (UPI)

While no concrete attack plans are known to the authorities, the current terror threat in Germany is the highest in years.

Terrorist experts of the German Federal Criminal Office, or BKA, have advised the German government to raise the threat level, the Financial Times Germany newspaper reported Thursday, without citing sources.

The terror threat in Germany a few months ago was considered to be much lower than in the United States, the United Kingdom and Israel. "According to the top police agency, that gap has dramatically closed," the newspaper wrote.

The BKA believes that a video which surfaced on an extremist Web site last weekend, warning Germany and neighboring Austria of terror attacks if they didn't pull out their troops from Afghanistan, is a direct threat from al-Qaida.

Posted on 16 March 2007 @ 15:48