German intel agencies puzzled by far right terror
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Germany's domestic intelligence agency was put on the defensive Monday, amid questions of how a neo-Nazi group that it had been aware of in 1998 could have slipped from its radar and carried out a series bank robberies and at least 10 murders.
The activities of far-right extremists in Germany have produced a thick chapter in the annual report of the nation's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution since the 1960s. Yet authorities were scrambling for information on the Zwickau-based trio calling itself the Nationalist Socialist Underground.
In a statement issued Monday, the office insisted that it had no information regarding the whereabouts of the three members - two of whom are now dead in apparent suicides - since last tracking them in 1998. (AP)
