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By Melissa Eddy
BERLIN (AP) — German state security officials urged the government Friday to make training at a terror camp a crime, following a foiled bomb plot by alleged Islamic radicals believed to have undergone paramilitary training in Pakistan.
Authorities continued investigating people suspected of providing support to three suspected terrorists — arrested earlier this week — in their plans to carry out massive bombings on airports and other institutions in Germany.
The concentration was on seven suspects, both in and outside Germany, five of whom were known to police, federal prosecutors spokesman Andreas Christeleit said Thursday. He did not elaborate.
In a raid Tuesday on a vacation residence in the central German town of Oberschledorn, police said they arrested two German converts to Islam and a Turkish citizen in possession of military-style detonators and enough material to make bombs more powerful than those that killed 191 commuters in Madrid in 2004 and 52 in London in 2005.
While the case has highlighted the effectiveness of existing German security measures, it also has triggered calls for tougher security laws, including criminalizing training at a terror camp and allowing use of the Internet to spy on suspects' computers. CONTINUED
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