German terror plot ‘on 9/11 scale’

FOUR men accused of a foiled German terror plot were fuelled by hatred and aimed to cause destruction on the scale of September 11, a court heard yesterday.

“The defendants were driven by the will to destroy the enemies of Islam — particularly US citizens — in Germany and to reach the scale of the September 11 attacks,” prosecutor Volker Brinkmann said as he opened the trial at Duesseldorf state court.

The four, two Germans and two Turks, were moved by “profound hatred of the USA as the greatest enemy of Islam”, said another prosecutor, Ralf Setton. He said they aimed to kill “as many people as possible”.