Coming back from the boat trip last night, our taxi had to go through a roadblock that seemed a little more severe than usual: the two policemen with machine guns standing on each side of the road were an eye-opener.
It turns out that they were part of a terrorism alert -- a thousand-officer manhunt stopping traffic across the city, looking for three Middle Eastern men who were observed on a bus Wednesday night, wearing backpacks and making suspicious-sounding remarks in Arabic about how "tomorrow we will stand as heroes before Allah".
I guess that's my excitment-by-proxy for this trip.
Here's the best English-language bit I could find about the alert; here's a German-language article from the Hamburger Abendblatt.
Posted by Kevin at August 25, 2005 11:46 PM