Failed German train bombing
Disrupted Attack| Event Details | |||
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 | Primary Organization | Unknown | |
 | Means of Attack | Suitcase bombs1 | |
| Target | Regional passenger trains1 | |
| Location | Monchengladbach, Germany1 | |
| Additional Location | Hamm, Germany1 | |
| Time | July 31, 20061 | |
| Victim Deaths | 0 | ||
| Victim Injuries | 0 | ||
| Attacker Deaths | 0 | ||
| Participants | Yousef Mohammed El Hajdid1, Jihad Hamad | |
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| Narrative and Notes | |||
| Reliable | German police found suitcases filled with propane gas explosives that were set to go off on the trains around 2:30 p.m. July 31 but failed due to a technical defect in their design. The suitcases were discovered further down the line in Dortmund and Koblenz. A Lebanese university student was arrested Aug. 19 in connection with the failed attack. The student was detained on a tip from Lebanon's intelligence service, which reportedly tracked the man's telephone call to his family. A second suspect turned himself in Lebanon a few days later.1,2 | |
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| Sources | |||
| 1Landler, Mark. 'Plot Shows Germans Are Also Terror Targets.' The New York Times, Aug. 21, 2006. | |||
| 2"2nd suspect in German terror plot is arrested in Lebanon." The Associated Press, Aug. 24, 2006. | |||
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