Germany 'bomb plotters under al-Qaeda orders'

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Source: BBC

One of the three men held in Germany on Friday on suspicion of planning a bomb attack had received orders from al-Qaeda, prosecutors have said.

A senior al-Qaeda figure on the Afghan-Pakistan border reportedly gave the order but the target had still not been chosen.

The three suspects were arrested in the cities of Duesseldorf and Bochum after allegedly buying bomb-making chemicals.

They had reportedly been under surveillance for several months.

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