Germans nab Syrian with plans for train bombs on his laptop

AP/Washington Post:

A third suspect detained in a failed attempt to blow up two German trains is a Syrian national who researched plans for the bombings on the Internet, prosecutors said Saturday.

The Syrian, whose name was given only as Fadi A.S., 23, was detained in southern Germany on Friday _ allegedly with a computer carrying the plans for the bombs which he and his alleged accomplices downloaded from the Internet.

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Harms' office said Saturday that the Syrian, together with the two Lebanese, "used his computer to research bomb-making instructions in the Internet." The bombs found in the cases "were built according to these instructions," it said in a statement.

Fadi A.S. also helped the two other suspects, Youssef Mohamad el Hajdib and Jihad Hamad, flee Germany to Lebanon via Turkey and Syria hours after the failed attack, the prosecutors said.

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Hopefully, the laptop will lead to other suspects. The Germans seems less certain about alleged links to al Qaeda than the Lebanese who captured another of the plotters. They appear to have the same objectives as al Qaeda, but they also appear to be at best the "B" team.

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