3 al-qaeda suspects arrested in Germany: Report

Three suspected members of terrorist outfit al-qaeda have been arrested in Germany.
 
Police officers did not say whether the three had planned specific targets, but said they posed a "concrete and imminent danger" to the nation.

All three suspects were of Moroccan origin, said the police.

The arrests "succeeded in averting a concrete and imminent danger, presented by international terrorism," the CBS News quoted German interior minister Hans-Peter Friedrich, as saying.

They showed "Germany remains a target of international terrorists," he added.

A law enforcement source said that one of the suspects has been on the radar of the German federal police for several months.

The source said German authorities are looking into a possible link to recent discovery of explosives in Spain and Austria, and into a possible broader connection with the bombing of Moroccan Cafe in Marrakech.