The German government rejected suggestions it intentionally misled the public about the US’s willingness to negotiate a “no-spy” agreement between the countries.

A SUSPECTED bomb in a suitcase that was to be put on a German-bound plane was intercepted in Namibia, German police said yesterday, a day after Berlin issued an alert on a tip about an imminent attack.

GERMAN police commandos arrested two Somali -born terror suspects on a KLM aircraft yesterday who are reported to have had links to a group behind a foiled 2007 plot to attack US interests.

Islamic extremists who trained at terrorist camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan may be plotting attacks in Germany, the head of the country’s federal crime office said in comments released today.