Via the London Times:

A Lebanese student suspected of trying to paralyse the German railway network with a bomb concealed in a suitcase appeared in court yesterday, as a huge police hunt for a second suspect continued. The 21-year-old man was remanded in custody by an investigating judge in Karlsruhe, southwest Germany, on charges of attempted murder, belonging to a terrorist organisation and attempting to cause an explosion. The suspect was an engineering student in the north German town of Kiel, where he was held on Saturday morning.

We must remember that nothing yet has been proved against the suspect, but the fact that he is an engineering student would suggest that he’s an educated man and not (I would assume, although naturally it’s impossible to be sure) a product of extreme deprivation. It ‘s beginning to look like his case may turn out to be yet another reminder (how many more do we need?) that the challenge the West faces from Islamic extremism is not simply a question of poverty or missed educational opportunity.