Domestic intel

German Domestic Intel to Keep Closer Tabs on Its Sources

Germany's domestic intelligence service said Monday it has compiled a single list of its sources among extremist groups, fulfilling a key demand from lawmakers investigating the agency's failure to crack down on a far-right terror group.

The group, calling itself National Socialist Underground, or NSU, is suspected of killing eight Turkish men, a Greek and a policewoman, and carrying out two bombings between 2000 and 2007. Revelations that several security agencies had sources close to the group but failed to stop it caused national uproar after its existence was uncovered in late 2011.

The new list would provide the country's domestic intelligence service with "a comprehensive insight into the country-wide access to all areas of extremism," said its head, Hans-Georg Maassen.