Europeans could be forgiven for feeling terrified last week after the U.S. State Department issued a travel alert… on Oct. 3, leading European countries to raise their own terrorism-threat levels.
As information emerges as to what prompted the alert, a suspected German jihadist with links to the same mosque in Hamburg used as a meeting point for the 9/11 hijackers has come to the fore as a key figure in an alleged terrorism plot, putting the spotlight once more on Germany as a potential staging ground for al-Qaeda terrorists. But how credible is the threat in Germany?
