Photo Gallery Bombmakers Seized in Germany
BKA investigators and Germany's elite GSG-9 anti-terrorist unit arrested three suspected Islamist terrorists in Medebach-Oberschledorn in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia on Tuesday afternoon. The men were apparently planning massive bomb attacks in Germany.
A police officer inspects the area in Medebach-Oberschledorn.
The three men planned to make explosives out of chemicals based on hydrogen peroxide.
German Federal Prosecutor Monika Harms, shown here arriving at Wednesday's press conference in Karlsruhe, said that the men were planning massive bomb attacks.
The suspects were brought to the federal court in Karlsruhe Wednesday.
Masked policemen take the suspects to the court.
Investigators hoped to get more information from the suspects during interrogations.
One of the suspects had lived in this house in Ulm, a small city in the southern state of Baden-Württemberg.
Police searched the Islamic Information Center in Ulm Wednesday. The sign on the door reads: "Islam is Peace!"
Police take material from the Islamic Information Center in Ulm Wednesday.
Suspect Daniel S. was last registered as living in this building in Saarbrücken.
A sign in the courtyard of the Saarbrücken building where Daniel S. was registered reads "Omar Mosque." A Muslim prayer room is located behind the building where he lived.
