Federal prosecutors said the three were suspected members of "an Islamist terrorist organisation", but gave no further details.

Defence minister Franz Josef Jung said the men were suspected of planning attacks against a US military base in Ramstein, and Frankfurt airport.

"There was an imminent threat," he told German television.

Please visit the link provided for the complete story.

It also said the men were arrested Tuesday evening and were close to carrying out the attacks

[---]

Ramstein Air Base is located in western Germany's Rhineland-Palatinate state and is about 125 kilometers (75 miles) southeast of Frankfurt. The base is a major transit point for the U.S. military into the Middle East and Central Asia.

The German terror arrests came a day after Danish police arrested eight "militant Islamists," accusing them of storing "unstable explosives."

Please visit the link provided for the complete story.

German police arrested three suspected Islamic militants who were planning "massive" and "imminent" attacks on American targets in Germany, authorities said Wednesday.

[---]

The suspects, two German converts to Islam, ages 22 and 29, and a 29-year-old Turk, appeared before a federal magistrate Wednesday. They were picked up Tuesday after raids in 30 locations across Germany, Ziercke said.

Ziercke said the men are members of a German terror cell called the Islamic Jihad Union and received terrorist training in Pakistan.

Please visit the link provided for the complete story.