Germany dispatched heavily armed police officers and bomb-sniffing dogs to train stations, airports and key landmarks Wednesday as a new picture emerged of the terrorism threat that had already raised security levels in Britain and France.
In a hastily called news conference in Berlin, the country’s interior minister, Thomas de Maiziere, said the government had “concrete indications of a series of attacks planned for the end of November,” and German, Pakistani and U.S. officials offered similar accounts of intelligence that pointed to imminent attacks by terrorists trained in Pakistan or Afghanistan.
The officials said that American military drone strikes in those countries had killed some of the plotters and disrupted the plans but that others were still at large.
