Militant Islamic suspects brought three vans into Germany, but it has yet to be established whether they intended to use them as car bombs in an attack on US and other targets, an official said today.

German authorities were today searching for 10 suspected supporters of an Islamic group linked to al-Qaida who are believed to have assisted the three militants arrested earlier this week in their foiled bomb plot.

Three Islamic militants from an al-Qaida-influenced group nursing a “profound hatred of US citizens” were arrested on suspicion of plotting imminent, massive bomb attacks targeting Americans in Germany, prosecutors said today.

Three suspected Islamic terrorists were arrested for plotting “massive” bomb attacks on Frankfurt’s international airport and the Ramstein US Air Base, German authorities said today.