Syrian refugees may have just stopped a major terror plot in Germany

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https://thinkprogress.org/syrian-refugees-turn-in-bombmaker-germany-566d541d56c9#.73i7hpy77

by Esther Yu Hsi Lee at Think Progress

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A group of Syrian refugees may have helped prevent a major terrorist attack from taking place in Germany, after they held down another refugee inside an apartment in Leipzig while waiting for local police to arrive.

Jaber al-Bakr, a 22-year-old Syrian national who was granted asylum status in Germany last year, was arrested on Sunday, following a two-day manhunt after police found “several hundred grams” of an explosive at an apartment in Chemnitz, enough to cause significant damage.

Al-Bakr asked other Syrians on an online forum for lodging near the Leipzig Central train station. “The Syrians took him home, where they constrained him and then called police,” CBS News reported. The German newspaper Bild reported that the refugees who housed him grew suspicious of him, posting a photo of him to Facebook to ask other Syrians whether he looked like the suspect wanted in the manhunt. Once confirmed, one man went to the local police while the other man kept Al-Bakr tied with electric cords and held him down in a headlock position. Al-Bakr offered one man 1,000 euros and US$200, but neither refugee took the offer.

“I fled from Syria over the Balkan Route,” one of the refugees told Bild, according to a Google translation. “I am so grateful to Germany, that it has taken us — it was very clear that we go to the police.”



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[ColemanMaskell]

1. Good news. Thanks for posting that.

[David__77]

2. The Syrian people have been targeted by terrorism in Syria.

The Syrian people have been targeted by terrorism in Syria, and I am not at all surprised that Syrian people abroad would be opposed to and act against terrorism.