German court releases another terrorist suspect

This can't be good for the European Union. A German federal constitutional court has refused to hand over a Syrian-born German businessman wanted by Spain as a suspected Al-Qaeda financier who provided logistical and financial support for the terrorist organization. He was released on a few hours later.

The German courts have not been enthusastic in prosecuting suspected muslim terrorists. Perhaps it is just residual sympathy for the 1960s counterculture terrorism that roiled Germany, invoked by a generation of home grown terrorists now comfortably esconced in government and the courts. Or it could be the oil connections are just too valuable to offend while Germany struggles to pay full price for oil that only a few years ago Saddam shipped via the illegal Syrian lines at discount prices that made for better economic times, helping, as one suspects it did, to bring the Red-Green coalition to power. Whatever the cause, Germany has been an unreliable partner to the United States in the war against terror. But they are even less helpful to the rest of the EU.