Three men have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of planning a "massive" terrorist attack on US facilities in the country, officials have said.
Federal prosecutor Monika Harms said the three had trained at camps in Pakistan and procured some 700kg (1,500lbs) of chemicals for explosives.
She said the accused had sought to target facilities visited by Americans, such as nightclubs, pubs or airports.
Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung said the men had posed "an imminent threat".
Media reports said they were planning attacks against a US military base in Ramstein and Frankfurt airport.
Surveillance effortMs Harms said the men planned to use vehicles loaded with the explosives to kill or injure large numbers of people.
The arrests had prevented "massive bomb attacks", she said.
The suspects, aged 22, 28 and 29, were alleged to be members of the German cell of a group she named as Islamic Jihad Union.
Two of the men were German nationals who had converted to Islam, while the third was a Turkish man.
Ms Harms said the al-Qaeda-linked group had set up the cell last year.
All three men had attended a training camp in Pakistan, police sources said.
Joerg Ziercke, the head of Germany's federal crime office, said the men had a "profound hatred of US citizens".
They had been under surveillance for six months, but the authorities decided to act when it became clear the men were planning to move their huge stores of hydrogen peroxide.
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