The Kofferbombers

It is fast turning into the month of defused bomb attempts. In addition to the foiled bombing attempts on UK airports at the start of August, it has this week been revealed that Germany also narrowly escaped its own terrorist attack on 31 July. A group of persons dubbed as the Kofferbombers (suitcase bombers) are reported to have hidden propane bombs in suitcases on two german regional trains.
The coordinated attacks were due to take place concurrently on two separate trains travelling between regional centres near to the French border. In the German press, experts have dismissed the bombs as being amateur in their construction - and have therefore ruled out any link to large terrorist organisations.

Nevertheless, since the start of the month a number of arrests have been made in connection with the foiled attacks and security has been noticeably tightened at German train stations. In Berlin this week a man was prosecuted for police deception. He was holding a bag and making ticking noises and is reported to have joked with railway security that "there's one in here". al