German terror suspects 'plotted death 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 today.

“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.