BERLIN (Reuters) - Radical Islamist group al Qaeda plans to carry out attacks in Germany, a senior German intelligence official was quoted as saying on Friday.
Bernhard Falk, vice president of Germany's Federal CrimeOffice (BKA), told German daily Die Welt that al Qaeda forcesbased on the Pakistani-Afghan border were eyeing Germantargets.
"The basic decision has been made there to carry outattacks in Germany," he said, adding that security risks inGermany had recently intensified.
Germany agreed on Wednesday to send more troops to northernAfghanistan. Last year, it foiled a plan by Islamist militantsto carry out bomb attacks against U.S. installations inGermany, seizing three men in the Sauerland region.
"We have indications that several additional plans are veryprobably in the works, aside from the plans made by theSauerland plotters," Falk said, adding that German Muslims werebeing recruited for training as radicals in Pakistani camps.
(Reporting by Dave Graham; Editing by Catherine Evans)
