2007 bomb plot in Germany

The 2007 bomb plot in Germany, planned by the Islamic Jihad Union-affiliated Sauerland terror cell (German: Sauerland-Gruppe, lit. 'Sauerland Group'), was discovered following an extensive nine-month investigation, involving some 300 people, three men were arrested on 4 September 2007 while leaving a rented cottage in the Oberschledorn district of Medebach, Germany where they stored 700 kg (1,500 lb) of a hydrogen peroxide-based mixture and 26 military-grade detonators and were attempting to build car bombs. They were convicted and sentenced to long jail sentences.

The three suspects were all unemployed. Two were German converts to Islam from Christianity, who had attended Pakistani camps run by Islamic Jihad Union.

Fritz Gelowicz (born 1979), was born in Munich and moved to Ulm with his parents and brother at the age of 5. He converted to Islam between the ages of 15-18 while attending the Multi-Kultur-Haus in neighboring Neu-Ulm with friend Tolga Dürbin, and used the name Abdullah. He was married in January 2007, to a German-Turkish woman. He was attending college in Ulm, studying to be an engineer. He was raised in an upper middle class family where his father was a solar heating salesman and his mother was a nurse. His parents separated when he was 15, and Gelowicz remained with his father. He was considered the leader of the plot.

Daniel Schneider (born 1986), lived in Saarbrücken. He dropped out of the twelfth grade after only a few weeks. He converted to Islam at the age of 19, and spent time studying the Koran and Arabic in Egypt. Like Gelowicz, Schneider's parents were divorced when he was young and Schneider had many Turkish friends, who seem to have introduced him to Islam. Schneider also spent 9 months as a conscript in the German army and trained in munitions. He met Gelowicz and Yilmaz at an Islamic Jihad Union training camp in Pakistan.