BERLIN—A suspected Islamist mole in Germany’s domestic intelligence service has been detained, officials said Wednesday, sparking criticism of an agency that has been on high alert following a string of attacks and foiled plots this year.
Prosecutors in Düsseldorf said they had arrested a 51-year-old German national and recent Islam convert on suspicion of preparing an attack on the agency’s headquarters in Cologne and attempting to violate professional secrecy.
Officials said the man had offered to help other Islamists launch an attack, but there was no proof he had started work on a plot. “So far there is no evidence the man had posed a concrete risk to the agency or its employees,” said a spokesman for the intelligence agency. A spokesman for the prosecutor’s office said no weapons or explosives were found in searches of the suspect’s home.
The suspect was intercepted sharing agency secrets in an online chat and offering “fellow believers” access to its headquarters for an attack, the prosecutor’s office said. His chat partner was in fact an undercover agent.
The suspect said he was “ready for anything to help his brothers” and that an attack against “infidels” was “in the interest of Allah,” according to the prosecutor’s office.
The office said the man had confessed to infiltrating the agency to warn “fellow believers” about investigations into them. The discovery of an infiltration at one of Germany’s most secretive institutions comes at a difficult time for the country’s security agencies. Germany hasn’t adopted the drastic surveillance laws introduced by Britain and France and its agencies’ work have been complicated by some of the world’s most extensive privacy-protection laws.
Yet a series of violent attacks this summer and the foiling of numerous plots since, most of them by recently arrived refugees, showed the country was a prime terror target. The arrival of well over a million refugees, mainly from the Middle East, since the beginning of last year has stretched the agencies’ already limited surveillance capacity.
The domestic intelligence agency started a recruiting drive recently to try to keep up. The suspect was hired in April 2016 after a change of career and was part of a team observing followers of the fundamentalist Salafi branch of Islam. The number of Salafits in Germany has tripled since 2012.
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In an effort to Curb Islamist activities and a Million refugees, it appears the German intelligence agency hired a Muslim whose sentiments weren't as they thought.
Germany Arrests Suspected Islamist Mole in Spy Agency
Prosecutors said they had arrested a 51-year-old German national on suspicion of preparing an attack
By RUTH BENDER - WSJ
Nov. 30, 2016 7:38 a.m. ET
Germany Arrests Suspected Islamist Mole in Spy Agency - WSJ
non sequiturshould we change the law to allow water boarding and lashing of terrorists?
non sequitur
but apparently quite good at it.:2razz:im unfamiliar with this technique
but apparently quite good at it.:2razz:
Nobody accused you of waterboarding anyone. As to the other practice, here ya go (edumacate yerself)im not an interrogator so ive never waterboarded or non sequitered anyone
im not an interrogator so ive never waterboarded or non sequitered anyone
and mke sure to spell it properly or none of all that is going to be of any help at all.:mrgreen:Whenever you and your partner engage in non sequiter, make sure you have a safeword prepared and plenty of lube.
Whenever you and your partner engage in non sequiter, make sure you have a safeword prepared and plenty of lube.
The Pourne Identity.
I already have a string on this in This section, and his 'gayness' already pointed out in it.BERLIN — Two weeks ago, German intelligence agents noticed an unusual user in a chat room known as a digital hideout for Islamic militants. The man claimed to be one of them — and said he was a German spy. He was offering to help Islamists infiltrate his agency’s defenses to stage a strike.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...48fda772306_story.html?utm_term=.10404839716a
Damn! A German spy/porn actor/Islamist. The world is getting so complex! :lamo
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