A call from Pakistan: “You know, Mom, the Americans even rape old men,” – “Unbelievable,” – “You know, Mom, our brothers here are so brave that the American soldiers wear diapers out of fear. They wet their pants when they see us. Today, some of them even got killed. We are going to kill their asses.” – “God is good.”

The agents listening in on the call jot down the date and time. Monday, December 28, 2009, 11:46 am. They know which son is talking to his mother in Hamburg. It is not the first call by Ahmad S., 36, they have taped and it will not be the last.

Wednesday, January 6, 2010: “Life in Germany is not good. You live with gays, lesbians, Jews, infidels. I have chosen the right path. I want everything to be right on the Day of Judgment. I want to enter Paradise with the whole family. One day, Mom, you will say, ” Well done, son.”

Wednesday, January 13, 2010: The holy warriors’ fight does not seem to proceed in such a grandiose manner. Sulaiman S. has recently returned to Hamburg from Pakistan. Ahmad, his elder brother, assured his mom over the phone: “My little brother had so much fun here and all. I told him, don’t go.” His mother: “But it is true that he is sick. He screams every night.” – “Here, he was calm.”“I wish you were here to see everything for yourself. Mom, wait until we have conquered Afghanistan. Then you could see how many were coming to join the Islamic state ruled by Sharia law.”

"I dreamt that you had come home"

Sunday, February 7, 2010. “I still do my computer work and have my own office now. I got a raise and I can marry even three more women here. I am very happy. Here, Islam rules.” His mother: “I dreamt that you had come home.” She starts to cry.

By now, the German citizen Ahmad Wali S. has been incarcerated at the U.S.-run Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. His confessions during the interrogations trigger terror alerts in the United States and alarm security agencies in numerous European countries.

According to Ahmad S., terror teams had infiltrated several big cities in Germany, Great Britain and France and were preparing simultaneous commando operations to cause significant numbers of casualties. Osama bin Laden had personally authorized the missions.

List of possible aims

In light of those disclosures, the United States advises their citizens to be on alert when travelling to Europe. Fox News quotes a US intelligence operative as saying, “The clarity of the details of these plans are a cause for concern”. A list of potential targets reportedly mentions Hamburg’s central train station and its television tower, the Adlon Hotel in Berlin and the Eiffel Tower in Paris. In order to eliminate the masterminds behind the planned attacks, the CIA increases the number of drone operations in North Waziristan from August 4th to September 20th. One such operation, earlier this week, kills eight German extremists. Experts from the German Federal Office of Criminal Investigation (BKA) and Germany’s Internal Intelligence Service and Germany’s Foreign Intelligence Service (BND) want to interrogate Ahmad S. immediately in Bagram. The holy warrior has been in German authorities’ sights since 2001 and they have already compiled a comprehensive file about him.

Born in 1974 in Kabul, Ahmad Wali S. came to Hamburg as a teenager in the early 90s, together with his elder brother. He grew up as a refugee child in India but comes from a middle-class, educated extended family of engineers, jurists, doctors and diplomats, who one after the other settled in Germany. In Afghanistan, his father Mohammad Naim S. had flown large capacity aircrafts and trained pilots for decades. However, after he arrived in Hamburg, he could not find work.

Ahmad turned out to be an intelligent junior high school student. Like many his age, he was interested in technology, computers and cars. However, he could not graduate from high school. He told friends, he had to drop out after only a few months despite good grades.