As you know by now, Germany foiled a “massive” bomb attack plan this morning. The plot was to be carried out against US and German interests in Germany by members or affiliates of al Qaeda.

BERLIN — Three suspected Islamic terrorists from an Al Qaeda-influenced group nursing “profound hatred of U.S. citizens” were arrested on suspicion of plotting imminent, massive bomb attacks on U.S. facilities in Germany, prosecutors said Wednesday.

German Federal Prosecutor Monika Harms said the three, two of whom are German converts to Islam, had trained at camps in Pakistan run by the Islamic Jihad Union, a group based in Central Asia. They had obtained some 1,500 pounds of hydrogen peroxide for making explosives.

“We were able to succeed in recognizing and preventing the most serious and massive bombings,” Harms told reporters.

Harms declined to name specific targets, but said the suspects had an eye on institutions and establishments frequented by Americans in Germany, including discos, pubs and airports.

Sudwestfunk televison, citing unnamed security sources in Berlin, reported that Frankfurt International Airport and U.S. Ramstein Air Base were among the targets.

According to the report, the hydrogen peroxide mixed with other additives, would have produced the equivalent explosive power of 1,200 lbs of TNT. Translation: A whole lotta boom!

“This would have enabled them to make bombs with more explosive power than the ones used in the London and Madrid bombings,” Joerg Ziercke, the head of the Federal Crime Office — Germany’s equivalent of the FBI — said at a joint news conference with Harms.

The three suspects — two Germans, ages 22 and 28, and a 29-year-old Turk — first came to the attention of authorities because they had been caught observing a U.S. military facility in Hanau, near Frankfurt, at the end of 2006, officials said.

By the way, last time Germany was targeted by jihadis?

In July 2006 two gas bombs were placed on commuter trains but did not explode. Officials said that attack was motivated by anger over cartoons portraying the Prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper.

H/t Hot Air.