Internet terror video reportedly threatens Germany

Internet terror video reportedly threatens Germany Berlin  - A new terror video threatening Germany has appeared on the internet, a newspaper reported Wednesday.

In the third such video this year, a man identified as "Commander Mohammad" agitates against Germany and Jews, according to reports by German daily Bild.

The man reportedly talks of Germany's "criminal government," whose "grandfather Hitler" had killed the Jews. In reference to Germany's military deployment in Afghanistan, the man says Germany's sons were now "in the service of the Jews."

Also reportedly appearing in the recording is a second man calling himself Abu Ibraheem from Germany and known to the authorities as a German Islamist of Moroccan descent. He praises the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, scenes of which appear on the tape.

The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, linked to al-Qaeda, has claimed responsibility for the video, Bild reported.

German officials apparently found the recording on an Uzbek website two weeks ago, ahead of one of Germany's biggest terrorist trials, which opened Wednesday.

In the trial, four alleged members of the Islamic Jihad Union terrorist organization are accused of having planned massive car bomb attacks in cities across Germany.

Security officials were quoted as saying that they consider the recording a call to radical extremists among Turks living in Germany, as well as to the around 70 extremists in the country thought capable of carrying out such attacks. (dpa)

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