Terror suspects 'planned massive attacks'

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.

The three men, two German converts to Islam and a Turkish citizen linked to a group based in Central Asia, had some 1,500lb of hydrogen peroxide – enough to make a bomb with the explosive power of 1,200lb of TNT, prosecutors said at a news conference.