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Source: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,638456,00.html
Germany Warns of Terror Threat
[Der Spiegel-Germany] Jurgen Dahlkamp and Holger Stark - The German government has issuing the clearest warnings yet of a possible attack by Islamist terrorists. At the end of June police officers searched the residence of Ali R., 29, a Palestinian medical student who grew up in Gaza, finding documents on a USB storage device that included information on the use of bombs and booby traps, bomb-building instructions, and a propaganda video. The CIA notified Berlin in late May that al-Qaeda leaders in Pakistan had decided to attack Germany or German interests abroad. "Germany has been singled out," say officials in Washington. The German military's most recent offensive in northern Afghanistan only heightens this image of Germans as the enemy.