German minister rebuked on terror talk
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BERLIN: German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble drew flak yesterday for considering a security policy that would allow the indefinite detention and “targeted killing” of terror suspects.
Peter Struck, parliamentary group leader of the Social Democrats, half of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Left-Right ruling coalition, expressed shock at Mr Schaeuble’s remarks, which included a call to ban the use of the internet and mobile phones by foreign suspects.
“(Schaeuble’s) new proposals on banning cellular phones could only beimplemented in a police state,” MrStruck told the daily Frankfurter Rundschau.
He said Germany must draw lessons from its Nazi past, also dismissing a call made by Ms Merkel last week to allow the military to be deployed on German soil in the event of an imminent terrorist threat.”This argumentation is wrong because it, among other things, does not take into account the horrible experiences in German history,” he said.
Mr Schaeuble made the comments in Monday’s issue of Der Spiegel, when asked how Germany should deal with the threat of Islamist terrorism after the recent foiled bombings in Britain.
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