Friday, September 26, 2008

Flying Dutch for the Jihad?

German commandos raided a Dutch KLM plane bound for Amsterdam while it was on the ground in Cologne and nabbed two men who wanted to die for the holy war:

The newspaper says the Cologne to Amsterdam flight was stormed at 6:55 a.m. (0455 GMT) and police arrested a 23-year-old Somali man and a 24-year-old German born in Somalia.


Thank you, Germany. Good work in stopping them. Using commandos is pretty serious stuff so I assume the Germans believed they had to act fast to prevent some serious Islamist killing spree. Otherwise, why not just notify the Dutch to arrest them as they got off the plane in Amsterdam?

I wonder what particular group of Westerners were their target and which of their many so-called grievances did the two men use to justify their plans?

Perhaps they were off to slay Mickey Mouse and blow up Euro Disney.