A German Bundeswehr soldier stands inside the situation room during an anti-terror-exercise at the police headquarters in Bremen, northern Germany, March 7, 2017. (Focke Strangmann/EPA)BERLIN — Police on Wednesday arrested a German army officer suspected of posing as a Syrian refugee to carry out an attack that would be blamed on migrants. He now faces charges of plotting a terrorist attack, fraud and violation of gun laws. Nadja Niesen, spokeswoman of the Frankfurt prosecutor's office, told reporters that the 28-year-old army officer was of German origin and did not appear to have any Arabic language skills. Correction: An earlier version of this post had the incorrect German army rank for the suspect.

Source: Washington Post April 27, 2017 14:56 UTC