September 5, 2007 - Three suspected terrorists are reported to have been arrested today for allegedly plotting to bomb Frankfurt airport and the US air force base at Ramstein, as per German officials and agency sources. 

The report states that Monika Harms, the German federal prosecutor, said the three had trained at camps in Pakistan and obtained some 680kg (1,500lb) of hydrogen peroxide for making explosives.

"This would have enabled them to make bombs with more explosive power than the ones used in the London and Madrid bombings," Joerg Ziercke, the head of Germany's federal crime office, said at a joint news conference with Ms Harms.

The Madrid train bombings killed 191 people, and 52 people died in the London attacks.

The three suspects first came to the attention of authorities because they had been observing a US military facility at the end of 2006, officials said.

All three had undergone training at camps in Pakistan run by the Islamic Jihad Union, and had formed a German cell of the group. The Islamic Jihad Union was described as a Sunni Muslim group based in central Asia that was an offshoot of an extremist group called the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.