Terrorist Attack in Germany 'Imminent'? UPDATED

We've been hearing about threats against Western targets - especially in Europe - a lot, lately.

This post discussed the high threat to our friends in the U.K. This post and this post warned of terrorist attacks in Europe over the Christmas holidays last year. In this post, I discussed the fact that Westerners were being trained by al-Qaeda to carry out attacks in their home countries.

And there have certainly been some notable arrests in the GWoT in Europe lately, especially in the U.K. and Spain, in addition to the arrest of six ethnic Albanians here at home this week. 

Hot Air reports on a possible attack in Germany, and the word "imminent" is used. As always, American servicemembers and their families are a potential target. German police are taking the initiative as the G8 Summit looms, and the obligatory protests are already underway.

And if that doesn't make you lose sleep at night, there's this: when al-Qaeda assholes leaders Ayman al-Zawahri and Abdel al-Aziz al-Masri were actively trying to purchase nukes in 2002/03, the Russians apparently 'misplaced' a few. Nothing new, certainly, but no less troubling.

Required reading:

• Right Truth: Sanctuary For Terrorists
• The Violence Worker!: The New Sanctuary Movement
• Amy Proctor - Dems Use Intel Funds for Global Warming
• Blogs of War » New al Qaeda Video: Ayman al-Zawahiri Dishes Out More of the Same
• The Captain’s Journal » The Enemy of My Enemy

***UPDATED***: Reader "Steve" submitted this update for us: U.S. Air Marshals Flooding German, British Flights.

"The intelligence was that there are plans to take a plane and crash it in a high-density, high-profile place," one official told ABCNews.com.  The official said the timing and identity of the "high-profile place" was not contained in the intelligence reports.

U.S. officials said that an al Qaeda-connected cell in southwest Germany had been under 24-hour surveillance since the beginning of the year after some of its members were detected conducting surveillance on the headquarters of the U.S. European Command at Patch Barracks, near Stuttgart.

The cell, officials said, is made up of members of the Islamic Jihad Group, a violent terrorist organization based in Uzbekistan.

Two members of the cell were spotted outside Patch Barracks late on New Year's Eve, officials said.  When questioned, officials said they said "they wanted to see what U.S. soldiers do on New Year's Eve."

Further surveillance and intelligence reports led to stepped-up security at U.S. military and diplomatic facilities last month in Germany.

Thanks, Steve!