A TURKISH man and his American fiancee who were arrested for allegedly plotting to attack U.S. military bases on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, do not appear to be associated with a terrorist organization, Germany’s interior minister said Saturday. German police arrested the pair Thursday, following a tip by U.S. authorities. They found 130km of chemicals and five pipe bombs along with a picture of Osama bin Laden in the couple’s apartment near Heidelberg, home to the U.S. Army’s Europe headquarters, officials for Baden-Wuerttemberg State told reporters. An investigation is ongoing, focusing on whether the couple was acting alone or were part of a network, but Interior Minister Otto Schily indicated Saturday they so far had no reason to suspect they were part of a larger terror group. Investigators identified the couple as Osman Petmezci, 25, and Astrid Eyzaguirre, 23. Petmezci was reportedly a strict Muslim “who hates Americans and Jews,” Thomas Schaeuble, interior minister for the southwestern German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, said Friday, adding that Eyzaguirre also indicated a hatred for Jews. Their occupations would have given both the access necessary to carry out the planned attack, Schaeuble indicated. The man worked in a chemical warehouse in nearby Karlsruhe. The woman worked in an on-post military store in Heidelberg, where some 16,000 American soldiers, family members and civilian workers are stationed. The weekly magazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday that Eyzaguirre had expressed admiration for Osama bin Laden to a friend, and that she had warned her to stay away from the post shopping facilities in the coming days. The friend reported the warning to U.S. military police. (SD-Agencies)