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a contract developer and manufacturer for the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry
With a total investment of roughly 20 million euros in new production and packaging lines
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and high volumes of effervescent products within the Aenova network
another new blister line was also put into operation
we can offer significantly increased production capacity on state-of-the-art
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The investment allows Aenova to offer faster blister lines and a capacity of around 220 million blisters per year
another new strip packaging line was commissioned at the beginning of the year
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Over 420 million effervescent tablets per year can be produced and packaged in Bad Aibling
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the site has a modern infrastructure that enables shorter delivery times and can grow with the customer
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showed the mangled cars in a wooded area parallel to a line of ambulances and rescue vehicles
Dozens of rescue workers combed the scene throughout the morning
searching for more survivors amid steel and broken glass
“This is the biggest accident we have had in years in this region,” police spokesman Stefan Sonntag said
said more time was needed to draw a conclusion about what happened: “We need to determine immediately whether it was a technical problem or a human mistake.”
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Giese confirmed on February 16 that ‘had the dispatcher acted in accordance with the rules
Prosecutor Jürgen Branz added that the dispatcher had realised his mistake and issued a distress call
The prosecutors have opened an involuntary manslaughter investigation
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after two trains crash head-on on single track near Bad Aibling
At least nine people have died and scores have been injured – 50 seriously – after two commuter trains collided in southern Germany
The crash happened near the Bavarian town of Bad Aibling at 6.48am on Tuesday
Several carriages overturned after the trains
which were travelling in opposite directions
The death toll had risen to 10 at one point
though police later revised it down to nine
with 50 severely injured and a further 100 carrying light injuries
Federal police spokesman Stefan Brandl cautioned that the toll would change
He said: “The current number of dead and injured is a snapshot; this can and will change.”
View image in fullscreenParamedics attend to a crash victim
Photograph: Michael Dalder/ReutersThe passengers were mostly commuters travelling between Munich and Rosenheim
many children who would normally take the trains were not on board
Rescue workers from across Bavaria and from Austria attended the scene
with the injured transported by helicopter and boat from the site
There is no information so far as to why the trains were on the single-lane track travelling in opposite directions at the same time
We’re doing everything to help the passengers
their relatives and train personnel,” Bernd Rosenbusch
the head of the Bavarian overland train service BOB
is part of French passenger transport firm Transdev
which is jointly owned by state-owned bank CDC and water and waste firm Veolia
State-owned Deutsche Bahn is responsible for the track
The line has a system that makes a train brake automatically if it goes through a red light
The line between Holzkirchen and Rosenheim was closed indefinitely with a replacement bus service in operation
A press conference was expected to take place at midday
Man arrested on suspicion of negligent homicide over head-on collision that killed 11 people near Bad Aibling
A German rail dispatcher was playing a game on his mobile phone shortly before two trains he was in charge of collided on a single track line
The unnamed dispatcher has been arrested on suspicion of negligent homicide. The two trains were filled with commuters when they collided head-on on 9 February near the town of Bad Aibling
It was one of Germany’s worst rail accidents in recent history
Prosecutors said the man was playing the game on his phone for “an extended period of time” until shortly before the crash
Rail dispatcher rules forbid the use of personal phones at work
“Due to the close timing it must be assumed that the accused was distracted from controlling the cross-traffic of the trains,” the statement said
This probably led the dispatcher to give the trains the wrong signals and then
to fumble the emergency call by pressing the wrong combination of buttons
meaning the train drivers were unable to hear it
The man acknowledged during questioning that he had played a game
Investigators have so far been unable to find any indication of a technical problem that might have caused or contributed to the crash
by MATTHIAS SCHRADER and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER
Germany (AP) — Two commuter trains crashed head-on Tuesday morning in a remote area in southern Germany
killing at least nine people and injuring some 150
some of whom had to be cut out of the wreckage and transported across a river for medical care
The two regional trains crashed before 7 a.m
on the single line that runs near Bad Aibling
police spokesman Stefan Sonntag told The Associated Press
It took hours to reach some of the injured in the wreckage and authorities were still working at midday to remove the final body from the train
"Once that is done then the investigators can begin their work," federal police spokesman Rainer Scharf told the AP from the scene
The rail line is commonly used by commuters heading to work in Munich
and would normally also carry children traveling to school
It was not clear how fast the trains were traveling at the time of the crash but German rail operator Deutsche Bahn told dpa they were permitted to travel of speeds up to 120 kilometers per hour (80 mph) on that stretch of track
The trains crashed in a remote area about 60 kilometers (40 miles) southeast of Munich in an area with a forest on one side and a river on the other
Rescue crews using helicopters and small boats shuttled injured passengers to the other side of the Mangfall river to waiting ambulances
Authorities said they were being taken to hospitals across southern Bavaria
Hundreds of emergency personnel from Germany and neighboring Austria were on the scene looking through the wreckage and aiding in the evacuation of the injured
"This is the biggest accident we have had in years in this region and we have many emergency doctors
ambulances and helicopters on the scene," Sonntag said
The two trains from the so-called Meridian line were both partially derailed and wedged against one another
train operater Bayerische Oberlandbahn said in a statement on its website
It was not yet clear what caused the crash
Federal Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt
said his thoughts were with the family members of the dead and the injured
"We need to find out know what happened
if the cause of the crash was based on the technology or human failure," he said
Bayerische Oberlandbahn said it had started a hotline for family and friends to check on passengers
We are doing everything to help the passengers
relatives and employees," Bernd Rosenbusch
the city blood center put out an urgent call for donors in the wake of the crash
which delivers blood products to local hospitals
said on its website that there was "an acute increased need for life-saving blood products" after the accident and called for immediate donations
Germany is known for the quality of its train service but the country has seen several other accidents
a train driver and one passenger were killed when a train hit the trailer of a tractor in western Germany in May
10 people were killed and 23 injured in a head-on collision of a passenger train and a cargo train on a single-line track close to Saxony-Anhalt's state capital Magdeburg in eastern Germany
Germany's worst train accident happened in 1998
when a high-speed ICE train crashed in the northern German town of Eschede
killing 101 people and injuring more than 80
David Rising in Berlin and David McHugh in Frankfurt contributed to this report
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Citing current and former NSA officials, the newspaper said the 75 percent coverage is more of Americans' Internet communications than officials have publicly disclosed.
The Journal said the agency keeps the content of some emails sent between U.S. citizens and also filters domestic phone calls made over the Internet.
The NSA's filtering, carried out with telecom companies, looks for communications that either originate or end abroad, or are entirely foreign but happen to be passing through the United States, the paper said.
But officials told the Journal the system's broad reach makes it more likely that purely domestic communications will be incidentally intercepted and collected in the hunt for foreign ones.
The Journal said that these surveillance programs show the NSA can track almost anything that happens online, so long as it is covered by a broad court order, the Journal said.
Edward Snowden, a former NSA contractor, first disclosed details of secret U.S. programs to monitor Americans' telephone and Internet traffic earlier this summer.
The NSA could not be immediately reached for comment but has said its surveillance is legal.
(Reporting by Michael Erman; Editing by Philip Barbara)
The young athletes started with a training session in the sportshall of the “Wirtschaftsschule Alpenland”
before moving to the “Sportspark” in Bad Aibling for a common dinner in the “B&O Parkgelände“
In an old typical Bavarian restaurant „Peißnhof“ the coaches took this opportunity
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introduced the „Judo Principles“ to the children
before doing some more sport activities the next morning
The gathering was concluded with a last judo session
Coach Anamaria Budiu said: „The children did very well and we will participate next year again
It’s nice how through this ‘small’ event big values can be shared.“
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BAD AIBLING, Germany — Two commuter trains crashed head-on Tuesday in southern Germany, killing 10 people and injuring 80 as they slammed into each other on a curve after an automatic safety braking system apparently failed, the transport minister said.
The regional trains collided before 7 a.m. on the single line that runs near Bad Aibling in the German state of Bavaria. Aerial footage shot by The Associated Press showed that the impact tore the two engines apart, shredded metal train cars and flipped several of them on their sides off the rails.
The first emergency units were on the scene within three minutes of receiving the call, but with a river on one side and a forest on the other, it took hours to reach some of the injured in the wreckage. Hundreds of rescue crews using helicopters and small boats shuttled injured passengers to the other side of the Mangfall River to waiting ambulances, which took them to hospitals across southern Bavaria.
Nine people were reported dead immediately while a tenth died later in a hospital, police spokesman Stefan Sonntag said, adding that the two train drivers were thought to be among the dead and one person was still missing in the wreckage.
‘‘We have little more than hope of finding them still alive,’’ he said. ‘‘This is the biggest accident we have had in years in this region.’’
German rail operator Deutsche Bahn said safety systems on the stretch had been checked as recently as last week, but Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt suggested that a system designed to automatically brake trains if they accidentally end up on the same track didn’t seem to have functioned properly.
Dobrindt, however, said it was too early to draw a definitive conclusion.
‘‘The site is on a curve. We have to assume that the train drivers had no visual contact and hit each other without braking,’’ Dobrindt told reporters in Bad Aibling, adding that speeds of up to 100 kph (60 mph) were possible on the stretch.
Black boxes from both trains had been recovered and are now being analyzed, which should show what went wrong, Dobrindt said.
‘‘We need to determine immediately whether it was a technical problem or a human mistake,’’ he said.
Authorities had initially reported 150 injured, but Sonntag later lowered that figure to 80. Seventeen had injuries considered serious, he said.
Each train can hold up to 1,000 passengers and they are commonly used by children traveling to school. Fewer than 200 people in all were on board Tuesday, however, because of regional holidays to celebrate Carnival.
‘‘We’re lucky that we’re on the Carnival holidays, because usually many more people are on these trains,’’ regional police chief Robert Kopp said.
About 700 emergency personnel from Germany and neighboring Austria were involved in the rescue effort, using about a dozen helicopters. Train operator Bayerische Oberlandbahn started a hotline for family and friends desperate to check on passengers.
‘‘This is a huge shock. We are doing everything to help the passengers, relatives and employees,’’ said Bernd Rosenbusch, the head of the Bayerische Oberlandbahn.
In Munich, 60 kilometers (40 miles) away, the city blood center put out an urgent call for immediate donations in the wake of the crash.
Germany is known for the quality of its train service, but the country has seen several other accidents, typically at road crossings. Most recently, a train driver and a passenger were killed in May when a train hit the trailer of a tractor in western Germany, and another 20 people were injured.
In 2011, 10 people were killed and 23 injured in a head-on collision of a passenger train and a cargo train on a single-line track close to Saxony-Anhalt’s state capital of Magdeburg in eastern Germany.
Germany’s worst train accident took place in 1998, when a high-speed ICE train crashed in the northern German town of Eschede, killing 101 people and injuring more than 80.
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Two trains have crashed into each other in a head-on collision in southern Germany, killing at least 10 people and injuring more than 150.
Police said one of the trains had derailed and several carriages overturned, and said the final tally of injuries and fatalities was yet to be confirmed.
The death toll continued to rise on Tuesday afternoon, as officials said the operation to rescue any remaining passengers from the wreckage was complete.
The early morning crash took place near Bad Aibling in Bavaria, and involved two regional trains carrying a large number of commuters - but operators said the "Student" service would have been full of children were it not for the Carnival school holidays.
The latest tally released by Bavarian police said 10 people had died and 50 were seriously injured, while around 100 were reported to have more minor injuries.
With so many badly injured in hospital, officers could not rule out the death toll rising further throughout the day.
The crash took place shortly before 7am local time (6am GMT), on a stretch of the track between Rosenheim and Holzkirchen.
Around three hours after the crash, police spokesman Stefan Sonntag updated reporters to say there were still some people trapped.
"This is the biggest accident we have had in years in this region and we have many emergency doctors, ambulances and helicopters on the scene," he said.
The trains involved would normally be expected to carry children on their way to school, local reports said, but for the German carnival season.
A spokeswoman for police in Upper Bavaria said eight rescue helicopters were standing on a lawn near the entrance to the town of Bad Aibling and further rescue staff were on the way to the scene of the crash. Local journalists said they had "never seen so many ambulances" congregated in one place.
Broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk 24 said the local carnival in Rosenheim had been cancelled as a result of the incident.
It said the crash had taken place near a sewage treatment plant amid a spell of cold weather in southern Bavaria.
Images posted to social media showed the crash site appeared to be in a wooded area next to a canal. BR 24 said the nearest main road was frozen at the time of the crash, and that the incident was causing extensive local transport delays.
The operator of the two trains, Bayerische Oberlandbahn, said on its website that the trains both partially derailed and are wedged into each other.
The operator and federal police in Bavaria have activated phone hotlines for families seeking information.
The statement did not address the cause of the crash, and officials declined to comment on it.
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Photo Gallery: Germany's Intelligence Cooperation with the US
Three months before Edward Snowden shocked the world with his revelations
members of NSA's "Special Source Operations department" sat down for a weekly meeting at their headquarters in the US state of Maryland
considered internally to be particularly efficient
one of which is overseeing the intelligence agency's delicate relationship with large telecommunications firms
It is the department that Snowden referred to as the "crown jewels" of the NSA
one significant slip-up was on the meeting agenda
an SSO member had reported a potentially damaging incident
"Commercial consortium personnel" had apparently discovered the program "Wharpdrive," for which SSO had tapped a fiber-optic cable
"Witting partner personnel have removed the evidence," he explained further
"and a plausible cover story was provided." According to an internal NSA document to which SPIEGEL has access
a team was quietly put together to to reinstall the program
did not perform the highly sensitive operation on its own
All signs indicate that the agency had help from Germany's Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND)
The code name Wharpdrive appears in a paper drafted in preparation for a BND delegation's visit to NSA headquarters in Fort Meade
and which instructs NSA leaders to "thank the BND for their assistance with the trilateral program." It also makes clear that the German agency plays a leadership role in the Wharpdrive program
with the NSA providing only technical assistance
It isn't clear from the document exactly where the BND and NSA accessed the fiber-optic cable nor is there any indication of the operation's target
Neither agency responded to questions about Wharpdrive
is that the BND cooperates closely with NSA in one of its most sensitive areas of operation
Leading constitutional law experts have their doubts
In testimony before the NSA investigation committee in the Bundestag
heavyweight constitutional law experts Hans-Jürgen Papier
Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem and Matthias Bäcker stated that the BND is potentially violating the German constitution by working with data received from the NSA
they argued that basic constitutional rights such as the privacy of correspondence
post and telecommunications apply to Germans abroad and to foreigners in Germany
That would mean that surveillance performed by the BND and NSA is constitutionally unacceptable
consider their cooperation with the NSA to be indispensable -- for counter-terrorism efforts
for the fight against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and for the battle against organized crime
According to a classified paper created by the government in response to a query from the opposition
the BND does not keep official statistics on the amount of telephone
email and text message metadata that is shuttled to American agencies
"All metadata" collected at the NSA site in Bad Aibling in Bavaria "is made available," the response states
spying tools and know-how is much more intense than previously thought
BND statements claiming they knew little about the programs and methods used by the NSA are
One location in Germany is particularly illustrative of the trans-Atlantic pact
the NSA maintained its largest listening post in Germany in Bad Aibling
The agency once had up to 1,800 workers stationed here: They frequented Chicken Joe
And they cruised through town in American off-road vehicles sporting US license plates
The Americans' affection for the town can be seen in "A Little Bad Aibling Nostalgia," a document that NSA employees posted on the agency's intranet
They reminisced wistfully about "free bier" emails and leberkäse
a bologna-like substance "made neither of liver nor cheese." German locals were fond of the agents
in part because they were reliable tenants
"Two men who specialized in Arabic dialects lived at my place," recalled jeweler Max Regensburger
Bad Aibling residents waved American flags in farewell
But the NSA did not completely abandon Bad Aibling
The BND took over most of the facilities on site
the oversized golf ball-like structures crucial to many surveillance operations
But one small NSA special unit remained active and joined BND agents in the Mangfall Kaserne
The Americans built a specially constructed windowless building with an exterior of black-painted metal
which houses the "Special US Liaison Activity Germany," or SUSLAG
as the "Tin Can." The unit's very existence is classified information
But it is clear that the Germans and Americans who work there know each other and value one-another's presence
The official nature of the cooperation between Germany and the US in Bad Aibling is documented in a contract
written two years prior to the NSA's official departure
drafted under the auspices of then-Chancellery Chief of Staff Frank-Walter Steinmeier
The "Memorandum of Agreement," signed on April 28
Much of the document consists of broad declarations of "good cooperation," but the important points can be found in the 74-page appendix
the two sides agree on joint espionage areas and targets
and the battles against organized crime and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
commit to respecting fundamental rights such as the privacy of correspondence
post and telecommunications and agree not to conduct surveillance on German or American citizens
The deal is valid both for "real" and "legal entities," meaning it applies to companies and associations as well
the crux is in the small print -- the addenda and exceptions
In the case of "terrorist activity," the taboos mentioned earlier no longer apply
Should it become clear that intercepted information originated from a German citizen
it can still be used as long as the partner agency is informed and agrees
The same is true in cases where the end point of monitored communications is located in a foreign country
the BND is not allowed to perform surveillance on German citizens
But does the memorandum's small print open up a back door
Does the NSA provide information about radicals that the German intelligence agency is not permitted to have access to
The BND denies the existence of such channels and says
"At no time has there been a deviation from the legal framework."
It seems doubtful that the Germans know exactly what their NSA colleagues are doing in Bad Aibling
the NSA is allowed to carry out its own surveillance operations and only has to allow the German partners to look at its task assignments and operational details if asked
internal documents indicate that the NSA is pleased with the Bad Aibling facility
"Two exciting joint ventures" are carried out there
One involves teams for working on joint surveillance (referred to as "Joint SIGINT Activity") and the other for the analysis of captured signals (Joint Analysis Center or JAC)
Snowden's documents hint at what precisely the trans-Atlantic allies were collaborating on
five NSA employees worked "side-by-side" with BND analysts on a BND operation called Orion
Its targets lay outside NATO's eastern border
most of the targets monitored jointly by the BND and NSA are in Africa and Afghanistan
it includes a list of companies and organizations with domain endings such as .com
.net and .org that are explicitly to be removed from the surveillance efforts because they are German web addresses
Among them are basf.com and bundeswehr.org
but also such domains as orgelbau.com and feuerwehr-ingolstadt.org
In response to questioning about the close cooperation in Bad Aibling
the BND said that the Joint SIGINT Activity and the Joint Analytical Center were discontinued "in 2012 and 2011
no joint surveillance took place prior to the facility's discontinuation: "Even before
signals intelligence was performed exclusively by the BND."
for example in a document pertaining to the one-year anniversary of the Tin Can
the document notes that the cooperation is "unique as a jointly manned
jointly tasked DNI site," with DNI referring to Digital Network Intelligence
An American document referring to levels of secrecy from 2005 notes that "the fact that NSA and BND ..
perform SIGINT collection at Mangfall Kaserne" must remain confidential
Bad Aibling also plays a central role in the question of whether the NSA is collecting data in Germany
A map from the spy program Boundless Informant
published by SPIEGEL in the summer of 2013
indicates that the NSA collects vast amounts of data in Germany and points to primary metadata collection points (or "SIGADS")
identified by the codes US-987LA and US-987LB
The document shows that these two SIGADS sent some 500 million points of metadata from Germany to NSA databases during a four-week period from the end of 2012 to the beginning of 2013
says that data is collected "against" a target country
The NSA has never explicitly commented on the two collection sites
there is an explanation that refutes the accusation that the US spied on Germany
The BND believes "that the SIGADs US 987-LA and US 987-LB refer to Bad Aibling and to a signals intelligence site in Afghanistan." That would mean
that the 500 million data points might have been collected by the BND outside of Germany and then transferred to the NSA
the German intelligence agency noted that it couldn't say for sure whether that would account for all of the data listed by the NSA
Should the BND's explanation be correct, it would mean that the formulation used by "Boundless Informant" -- and SPIEGEL's own interpretation -- were misleading. But it would also provide yet more evidence for the enormous exchange of information between Germany and the NSA.
In the Wharpdrive program, BND specialists are taking the lead. According to one document from the Snowden archive, Germany's cooperation with the NSA's Special Source Operations is meant to provide "unconventional special access" to fiber-optic cables.
In that same document, the Americans express their respect, praising the Germans for operations undertaken "under risky conditions" and noted that the BND "offered NSA unique accesses in high interest target areas."
A 2006 document verifies that the BND and the NSA not only work closely together, but that they are also often on equal technological footing. At the time, US intelligence workers visited a BND office in the town of Schöningen, Lower Saxony. The office is just a few kilometers away from the city center's half-timbered houses. The site's location near the former border with East Germany used to help the BND eavesdrop on its communist neighbors.
As Germany got consumed by hosting the World Cup in the summer of 2006, BND analysts gave presentations to their American colleagues about which electronic tools they used. The equipment, the Americans noted in meeting minutes, were sometimes more effective than the NSA's own.
As far back as 2006, the BND was working in Schöningen on algorithms that could detect patterns or anomalies and thus enable it to exploit social networks for intelligence purposes. With a subject line on meeting notes reading "Visitors impressed with software demos," the Americans expressed high regard for their German colleagues. They also praised the intercepts from Afghanistan that the "BND shares on a daily basis."
Indeed, NSA staff seemed to be pleased with much of what the BND does in Afghanistan. There is no other issue in Snowden's documents that is the subject of as much praise for the BND, the role it plays and what it shares. There are numerous instances in which the agency lauds the Germans for leadership and for the monitoring of additional civilian and military targets that they have taken on.
A presentation on the cooperation among 14 intelligence services in Afghanistan shows that the partners have the ability to exchange intelligence in "near real time," including the contents of encrypted mobile phone conversations and so-called "target packages" containing information on targets.
New documents also indicate the high significance of German surveillance to the US military in Afghanistan. Germany and 13 of its allies deliver intelligence to a unit on the American military base in Bagram. This is home to the NSA's "Cryptologic Services Group," a unit that feeds intelligence to controversial units like the secret Task Force 373, who had the mission of capturing or killing high-value Taliban or al-Qaida targets.
These connections between the BND and NSA raise difficult questions about the German government and its foreign intelligence service, such as whether Germany participated indirectly in death squad operations, which can result in the deaths of civilians or police.
The government has declined to comment on such questions. So far, there have merely been general statements, like the one made most recently by German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière at an event in Berlin. He described the United States as Germany's most important ally and said, "If it were up to us, we would continue it in absolute terms and even intensify it."
There is substantial evidence in Snowden's documents that German authorities are trying to do just that. In April 2013, a BND delegation led by an official named Dietmar B. visited the NSA. The BND "is eager to present its SIGINT capabilities ... with the goal of expanding the partnership," an NSA document notes. The document says that officials welcome "the BND's eagerness to strengthen and expand cooperation with NSA."
Other documents state that the BND offers "language assistance" in African languages. It is also clear that the BND shares the results of its monitoring of two foreign ministries as well as Internet telephony originating from a crisis-plagued country in the Middle East.
These days, tensions between the upper echelons of government in Germany and the United States are at their highest in years, but these documents suggest a smooth relationship between the eager BND and the covetous NSA.
There was only one point on which the United States expressed reserve: A request by the Germans to use information from NSA surveillance in "open court." The document, from April 2013, said there were concerns that the disclosure of surveillance capabilities in a German court could have ramifications and that the "desired and planned level of cooperation" could not be maintained.
In this instance, Germany's adherence to its own constitution seems bothersome to the Americans.
Gerhard Schindler, the president of Germany's Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), the country's foreign intelligence agency, at the former NSA base in Bad Aibling. The NSA largely abandoned the base in 2004, but an NSA team stayed behind and continued to work closely with BND agents who took over the site.
Germany's BND has denied that information it provides to the US is used to identify targets for drone attacks. But the situation is a complicated one. It is possible to equip drones with what are known as IMSI catchers, which intercept mobile phone signals.
The Mangfall Kaserne in Bad Aibling houses Special US Liaison Activity Germany, or SUSLAG. The NSA is pleased with the facility, referring in one document to "two exciting joint ventures" that were carried out there. Most of the targets monitored jointly by the BND and NSA are in Africa and Afghanistan.
BND President Gerhard Schindler at the Bad Aibling monitoring base. According to the German constitution, the BND is not allowed to perform surveillance on German citizens, but it seems doubtful that the Germans know exactly what their NSA colleagues are doing in Bad Aibling.
This document from the archive of whistleblower Edward Snowden notes that "the fact that NSA and BND ... perform SIGINT collection at Mangfall Kaserne" must remain confidential. An additional document notes that the Joint SIGINT Activity (JSA) is "unique as a jointly manned, jointly tasked DNI site," with DNI referring to Digital Network Intelligence.
The logo of the joint BND-NSA intelligence collection site in Bad Aibling. A confidential contract governs the delicate relationship between the two agencies.
dozens injured in German train crashAt least 10 people have been killed in a high-speed rail crash involving two trains in the southern Germany countryside on Tuesday.An aerial view of rescue forces working at the site of a train accident near Bad Aibling,Germany
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Two passenger trains have crashed in Bavaria
The police said that many people had been killed and many more injured
One of the trains was derailed with the result that many of the cabins flipped over
a city which is around 60 kms to the East of Munich
On site there were emergency and reduce services
the police in Bavaria said that around 100 people had been injured
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Industrie - Bedeutender Aspekt der Nachhaltigkeit\" - unter diesem Motto öffneten bayernweit rund 800 Denkmäler für die Öffentlichkeit ihre Pforten zum \"Tag des offenen Denkmals\"
Geradezu prädestiniert für das vorgegebene Motto war im Aiblinger Raum das B&O-Gelände in Mietraching
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Industrie - Bedeutender Aspekt der Nachhaltigkeit" - unter diesem Motto öffneten bayernweit rund 800 Denkmäler für die Öffentlichkeit ihre Pforten zum "Tag des offenen Denkmals"
Geradezu prädestiniert für das vorgegebene Motto war im Aiblinger Raum das B&O-Gelände in Mietraching
das auf prägnante Weise die nachhaltige Entwicklung im Wandel der Zeit repräsentiert
Mietraching - "Dieses Gelände ist eine der geschichts-trächtigen Ecken von Bad Aibling"
konstatierte Kreisheimatpfleger Hans-Michael Stratbücker eingangs seiner Erläuterungen
Er spannte dabei den historischen Bogen von der früher hier herrschenden Hallstatt-Kultur
aus der im Jahr 1907 noch 154 Hügelgräber vorhanden waren
Diese mussten dann dem Bau des Fliegerhorstes weichen
Nach Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges diente das Areal bis 1946 als US-Kriegsgefangenenlager
Im Zuge der 1955 durch ein Viermächteabkommen beschlossenen Neutralität Österreichs wurden die dort vorhandenen Abhöranlagen nach Mietraching verlegt
"Das anfängliche Antennenfeld mit vielen Gittermasten und Drähten wurde später durch die heutigen weißen Kugeln ersetzt
die 1972 offiziell von der NSA übernommen wurden"
Über die weitere Entwicklung des ehemaligen US-Areals informierte die B&O-Repräsentantin Beatrix Boutonnet
die zunächst das Wohnungswirtschaftsunternehmen mit seinen Schwerpunkten vorstellte
"B&O hat 2006 das Gelände erworben
einen Großteil der vorhandenen Gebäude erhalten und mehrere neue Bauwerke errichtet"
Bei einem Rundgang stellte sie der großen Teilnehmerschar (darunter Bürgermeister Felix Schwaller) einige Neubauten vor
So konnten sich die Besucher im preisgekrönten "Decathlon"-Haus von der innovativen und platzsparenden Wohnraumlösung überzeugen oder auch Deutschlands höchstes Holzhochhaus (acht Stockwerke) sowie weitere Haustypen für günstigen und platzsparenden Wohnbau bewundern
Die B&O-Vertreterin erläuterte den Besuchern zudem das Unternehmenskonzept für alternative Energieformen
die hier für einen Einsatz in der Wohnungswirtschaft getestet würden
Beim Rundgang fielen den Besuchern auch die "hölzernen Raumobjekte" ins Auge
die von Studierenden der TU München auf dem Gelände errichtet worden waren (wir berichteten)
Beim Betrachten einer Bildergalerie konnten die Gäste ferner die Entwicklung des ehemaligen Fliegerhorstgeländes nochmals optisch nachvollziehen
Stratbücker berichtete des Weiteren schmunzelnd über das lebhafte Interesse der Anwohner in der Nachkriegszeit
So werde bis heute unter anderem gemunkelt
dass es einen geheimen unterirdischen Fluchtweg gegeben habe
Der aufschlussreiche Rundgang endete am "Tante Emma"-Laden im umgesiedelten Bauernhaus
wo sich die Teilnehmer mit Applaus bei Beatrix Boutonnet und Hans-Michael Stratbücker für die informative Führung bedankten
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