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• German Police Arrest Two in Connection With Islamist Web Site

  22 December 2008, by Deutsche Welle
  German federal police arrested two men Tuesday, Nov. 25, for operating a radical Islamist website and they are likely to face charges of supporting terrorism, prosecutors said. The German-language website, GIMF, which stands for Global Islamic Media Front, contained videos from al-Qaeda, Mesopotamian al-Qaeda and the radical group Ansar al-Islam. It also contained two videos made in Germany demanding the withdrawal of German and Austrian troops from Afghanistan, the prosecutor-general’s office in Karlsruhe said.

• TERROR INVESTIGATION: German Islamist Resurfaces by Video from Afghanistan

  22 December 2008, by Spiegel Online
  Eric Breininger has been one of Germany’s most-wanted men since he joined the Islamist Jihad Union terrorist organization. He’s now resurfaced in a video from Afghanistan. His message: He has no plans for an attack against Germany. German officials have been looking for the young man for months. It is a search that has spanned the globe, but which had largely been fruitless. Until Tuesday that is, when Eric Breininger, a young German man from the western state of Saarland, popped up in an Islamic Jihad Union (IJU) terror video claiming he is currently in Afghanistan.

• Hundreds of Potential Terrorists Live in Germany, Official Says

  16 December 2008, by DW World
  There are roughly 700 people in Germany who the interior ministry believes may be involved in extremist Islam circles, the ministry’s deputy head said. Dozens of them are under intense surveillance.

• Germans deploy manga-style comics to sway Muslim youth in war of ideas

  16 December 2008, by World Tribune
  The German government has published a comic book designed to dissuade Muslims from turning to Islamist extremism although U.S. officials say the effectiveness of the effort is questionable. The comic was issued by the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia that seeks to educate young people about the differences between Islam and Islamic extremism and danger posed by Islamic terrorism.

• Grundeinkommen statt Hartz 4. Zur politischen Soziologie der Sozialreformen

  10 December 2008, by Opielka Michael
  The essay examines the german workfare legislation (Hartz) within the frame of the EU flexicurity program. The article underlines critically the negative effects on precarious publics and groups, such as single women, unskilled unemployed, etc. and discusses the wider, political sociology of the reform program. Yhe author suggests to define new legal standards concerning precarious labour conditions.

• Social Justice statt Kultur der Kälte

  18 November 2008, by Weinbach Heike
  The author’s purposal is to confront two main traditions within the german culture, the concept of social justice versus the «social coldness». Therefore, she sketches a history of these phenomena and shows the philosophical roots of the problem. Another aspect of her argumentation is the analysis of social movements and public policies in Germany.

• GERMAN TERROR ARRESTS: From the Rhine River to the Jihad

  29 October 2008, by Spiegel Online
  The arrest of two Muslim extremists at the Cologne-Bonn airport last week shows that German converts continue to volunteer for the jihad. Investigators fear that some are on their way back now that they’ve received training. It was Friday morning, shortly before 7:00 a.m., and all passengers had boarded KLM flight 1804 at the Cologne-Bonn airport. The small Fokker 50 was ready for takeoff. This particular Friday was a special day for devout Muslims, being one of the last days of the holy month of Ramadan.

• Prekäre Arbeit

  14. Oktober 2008, von Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Berlin
  The study shows a growing proportion of non-standard jobs in both parts of Germany. Although the various types of precarious labour are different in each part of the german society, both eastern and western average rates rise yet up to 29%.

• Germany Arrests 2 Suspected in Terror Plot

  8 October 2008, by Washington Post
  German police arrested two men near Frankfurt on terrorism charges Friday, alleging they were involved in a cell that had plotted to blow up U.S. targets in Germany a year ago.

• Germans raid plane, arrest 2 terror suspects

  8 October 2008, by PR Inside
  Armed police officers boarded a jet just minutes before takeoff Friday and arrested a pair of ethnic Somalis, saying they found a suicide note from the men that claimed the pair wanted to fight in a holy war and die in a terrorist attack. A 23-year-old Somali and a 24-year-old German born in Somalia boarded the KLM Flight 1084 without incident after the surprise early morning raid at Cologne-Bonn Airport, police said. Police said authorities did not think the men planned to hijack the plane.

• Germany on alert for 2 terror suspects

  8 October 2008, by Associated Press
  German authorities are searching for two men linked to a group of terrorist suspects whose alleged plot to blow up American targets in Germany was foiled in 2007.

• German commandos arrest two terror suspects on aircraft: police

  8 October 2008, by AFP
  German police commandos arrested two Somali-born terror suspects on a KLM aircraft Friday who media reports said 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 6:55 am (0455 GMT) and took a 23-year-old Somali and a 24-year-old German citizen of Somali origin into custody, police spokesman Frank Scheulen said.

• Atypische Beschäftigung auf dem Arbeismarkt

  16. September 2008, von Statistisches Bundesamt
  The part of precarious forms of labour, the so called «bad jobs», increased rapidly in Germany during the last ten years, from 15% to 26% of all jobs. While the number of employed persons grew (mostly due to a high number of pensioners), it appears in the same time that bad jobs replaced traditionnal, stable jobs.

• Report: Berlin fears German being groomed as suicide bomber

  1 July 2008, by Earth Times
  Police fear that a convert, Eric B, 20, is being groomed by Jihadists to become the first German suicide bomber, according to the news magazine Der Spiegel on Saturday. German police had lost track of B several weeks ago in the wilds in or near Afghanistan, where he was in training with Islamic Jihad Union (IJU), an Uzbek-origin terrorist group regarded as just as threatening as Arab-based al-Qaeda.

• Islamist Angst: How Germany Is Dismantling Civil Rights amid Terror Fears

  30 June 2008, by Spiegel Online
  Germany has so far been spared a bloody Islamist terror attack. But it only took two planned attacks in Germany to persuade a majority of the population to support a massive dismantling of civil rights.

• Fraunhofer Symposium Future Security

  25 June 2008, by Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
  These annual conferences were initiated by defence research institutes. They hope that the internal security programme launched by the federal government in 2006 will make good for the shrinking defence research contracts.

• Europe’s internal and external borders

  25 June 2008, by cilip
  It offers an excellent comprehensive update of the emerging border control regimes in Europe with particular reference to Germany

• Ein Blick in die Mitte. Zur Entstehung rechtsextremer und demokratischer Einstellungen in Deutschland

  24. Juni 2008, von Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Berlin
  Im November 2006 publizierte die Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung die Studie «Vom Rand zur Mitte». In dieser Repräsentativbefragung wurde mit einem Fragebogen das Ausmaß rechtsextremer Einstellungen in Deutschland erhoben. Erneut unter der wissenschaftlichen Leitung der Leipziger Wissenschaftler Dr. Oliver Decker und Prof. Dr. Elmar Brähler ist nun eine Nachfolgestudie im Auftrag der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung entstanden, die die Frage nach den Ursachen für rechtsextreme Einstellungen vertieft behandelt.

• German Government Approves Plan To Share Information With US

  9 June 2008, by NSDAQ
  Germany Wednesday approved a disputed plan to share more information on terror suspects with the U.S. in a deal Washington hopes will be a model for cooperation with other countries. Separately, the cabinet also granted sweeping new powers to federal police for online searches of computers to prevent terror attacks and other serious crimes, in a second measure that has raised hackles among civil libertarians.

• Islamic Terrorism Biggest Threat to Germany, Minister Says

  4 June 2008, by DW World
  Islamic terrorism is the greatest threat to the security and stability of Germany, Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said in Berlin on Thursday, May 15. Germany had been lucky to escape terrorist attacks because of preventive measures taken by the security services, the minister said in presenting the annual report of the nation’s domestic intelligence service.

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