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Islamist Plot to Attack German Synagogue on Yom Kippur Foiled
(AP-Washington Post) Kirsten Grieshaber - German officials received "very serious and concrete information" that there could be an attack on the synagogue in Hagen during Yom Kippur, said Herbert Reul, the interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia state. The tip pointed to "an Islamist-motivated threat situation." A Syrian national who lives in Hagen was detained. He acknowledged having had contact with a bomb-building expert via Telegram. Der Spiegel reported that the tip came from a foreign intelligence service. It said the Syrian told someone in an online chat that he was planning an attack with explosives on a synagogue.