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| New arrest over US embassy 'plot' | New arrest over US embassy 'plot' |
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| A second suspect has been arrested in connection with an attempted attack on the US embassy in Vienna, Austrian officials have said. | A second suspect has been arrested in connection with an attempted attack on the US embassy in Vienna, Austrian officials have said. |
| The man was arrested in Tulln, some 25km (15 miles) west of the capital. | The man was arrested in Tulln, some 25km (15 miles) west of the capital. |
| Police said he was suspected of being an accomplice to a Bosnian man arrested on Monday after he tried to take a bag of explosives into the US embassy. | Police said he was suspected of being an accomplice to a Bosnian man arrested on Monday after he tried to take a bag of explosives into the US embassy. |
| The man attempted to run off after his backpack activated a metal detector. No-one was injured in the incident. | The man attempted to run off after his backpack activated a metal detector. No-one was injured in the incident. |
| The nationality of the second man was not immediately known, but police said the two appeared to know each other. | |
| 'Shrapnel effect' | |
| The Bosnian man was caught by police at around 1200 (1000 GMT) on Monday not far from the US embassy, which is situated on Boltzmanngasse street in Vienna's 9th district. | |
| Doris Edelbacher of Austria's federal counter-terrorism office said the explosives found inside his bag resembled grenades, but that explosives experts were still trying to determine whether the devices could have been detonated. | |
| "There were a lot of nails in that bag. Had it exploded, it would have had an enormous shrapnel effect," she told the Associated Press. | |
| The backpack also contained a book in which a reference to Islam appeared, but she said it was not clear whether the attempted attack had an Islamic background. | |
| Ms Edelbacher said the suspect spoke broken German and had for now only made "confused statements" whilst being questioned. | |
| Last month, Austrian authorities arrested three people of Arab origin in connection with a video posted online that threatened Austria and Germany with attacks if the two countries did not withdraw their military personnel from Afghanistan. | |
| The arrests came several days after a telephone bomb threat triggered an alert at a US air base at Spangdahlem in Germany. |