VIENNA, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- Austrian authorities have arrested three people who produced online videos threatening terror attacks against Austria and Germany.
Earlier this week Austrian Interior Minister Guenther Platter said the trio was suspected of producing a video that demanded German and Austrian troops leave Afghanistan or face terrorist attacks. They have admitted to ties to al-Qaida, he said.
The suspects did not, however, plan any concrete terror attacks.
"Austria was not under threat of an attack at any time," Platter told a news conference. "We could determine that based on the actions of the three."
The suspects, two men ages 20 and 26, and a woman, 21, are second-generation Austrians with an Arab background.
The arrests are the latest in a series of anti-terror moves made by European governments in the past weeks.
Last week Germany squashed a terror cell that planned to bomb U.S. and other targets in Germany. A week earlier Danish authorities arrested eight men who had amassed explosives.
