http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/14/world/europe/germany-arrests-isis.html 2016-09-13 14:19:20 Germany Arrests 3 Syrians on Suspicion of ISIS Ties They are thought to have arrived in the country among hundreds of thousands of migrants and to have had links to those behind the Paris attacks lacks year. === BERLIN — Three Syrians who entered Thomas de Maizière, the German interior minister, said that the travel documents the men were carrying when they were arrested on Tuesday had been issued by the same authority as ones found on some of the men who carried out the “It could be that this was a sleeper cell,” Mr. de Maizière told reporters. Prosecutors said There was no indication the three had been planning a specific attack, according to prosecutors, who gave no further details about possible targets. But they said they had sufficient evidence to arrest the men on suspicion of membership in a foreign terrorist organization. German security authorities have been on high alert since two young men who entered the country as migrants, and who had received benefits funded by German taxpayers, carried out separate The three men arrested on Tuesday, in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein, were identified only by their first names and last initials, in keeping with German privacy laws: Mahir al-H., 17; Mohamed A., 26; and Ibrahim M., 18. They entered the country in November by traveling through Turkey and Greece and had been living in refugee shelters north of Hamburg, the German news media reported. Prosecutors said they suspected that Mahir al-H. had joined Islamic State militants in Raqqa, Syria, at some point before September 2015, and that he had received training in the use of weapons and explosives. In October, he and the two other suspects “pledged to an Islamic State operative responsible for operations and attacks outside of Islamic State-held territory to travel to Europe,” where they were either to carry out a planned attack or await instructions, prosecutors said. “For this, they were supplied with passports issued by the Islamic State and tens of thousands of dollars, as well as mobile phones with previously installed communication programs.” Germany admitted The federal criminal police have reported receiving 415 tips about possible terrorists hiding among refugees, but they said that only 63 had been serious enough to require an investigation.