German police raid plane for terror suspects

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.

Security forces boarded the Amsterdam-bound plane with 48 passengers on board at Cologne-Bonn at 6.55am and took a 23-year-old Somali and a 24-year-old German citizen of Somali origin into custody, police spokesman Frank Scheulen said.

He said the two men had left notes in their apartments saying they were prepared to die in “holy war” and that they had been under police surveillance for several months. The two men were not named.