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Authorities arrested Steven N., 26, Abdullah W., 28, and Abdulsalam W., 23., all German nationals, at Hamburg airport on Sept. 6 on suspicion of membership in Shabaab; they had just arrived from Mombasa in Kenya. Two more Islamist terror suspects were arrested in Simbach am Inn while on their way to Syria; and two German Islamists suspected of Shabaab membership were recently arrested in Kenya. The trial of four Salafists accused of planning a failed bomb attack on the Bonn train station in December 2012 began yesterday; the suspects -- Marco G.; Enea B., a former member of an Albanian anti-terror police unit; and Koray D. and Tayfun S., both of Turkish origin -- also planned to bomb leaders of an anti-Islamist party.