German police were searching Thursday for 10 suspects believed to have belonged to a terror network that provided assistance to three men accused of plotting massive attacks against U.S. interests in the country, according to an interior ministry spokesman. Prosecutors said the trio were members of an al Qaeda-linked Islamist group and planned "imminent" car bombings using explosives more powerful than those used in the deadly atrocities in Madrid and London in 2004 and 2005.The 10 suspects still at large were of various nationalities -- some living in Germany and some outside the country, spokesman Christian Sachs said.
August Hanning, a top security official, told German broadcaster ARD that authorities believed the group no longer posed a direct security threat.
The suspects already in custody, two German converts to Islam, aged 22 and 29, and a 29-year-old Turk, appeared before a federal magistrate Wednesday after being detained in raids in 30 locations across Germany.
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