European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday april 26 2007 stars and stripes pages by John Vandiver stars and stripes six years after the army issued a mandate that All housing complexes around Europe be shielded with fences hundreds of families continue to live in unsecured military neighbourhoods where traffic rumbles unfettered it boggles my mind it is not considered High priority our commanders feel somebody is expendable Ive just had it said Melanie Buckley who lives in an unsecured Wiesbaden neighbor Hood i want to be Able to sleep at night in 2001 us army Europe required All of its installations including housing areas to be fenced the mandate was needed to meet Force Protection require ments and better protect soldiers and families living there Accord ing to Usa eur when asked wednesday How Many bases and housing areas Are out of compliance military officials did not have an immediate answer officials from installation management command and Usa eur Are in the midst of re viewing the matter said Bruce Anderson an army spokesman while officials probe some Resi dents in Wiesbaden Are speaking out about the Security shortfalls in their neighbourhoods and at base facilities such As daycare centers after the us embassy in Germany issued an Alert last week that warned americans of a heightened terrorism threat and advised people to take extra pre cautions an air of urgency was injected into discussions Buckley the wife of an army sergeant and a Volunteer at base schools says there Are three hous ing areas in Wiesbaden Home to hundreds where there Are no fences or id checkpoints Shes gone All the Way up the Chain of command making her Security concerns known for years nothing has been done she said no one has even bothered to correction the headline on an april 25 Story about an army private on trial for attempted murder and rape should have stated that the alleged victim in the Case was a 22yearold thai woman clarification a quote in an april 24 Story about us military personnel responding to a Security warn ing from the us embassy might have been taken out of context senior chief Petty officer Joe Casagmo a Counselor with Kaval Hospital Naples Italy expressed frustration Over the Lack of information from tile eni Bassy in a bulletin aired on  work be Garding the Wani Iii mandate some bases not fenced Bew and stripes traffic enters a us housing area wednesday in Wiesbaden Germany an american resident of Wiesbaden says there Are three housing areas in the City without fences or identification checkpoints respond to me Buckley said military officials have said they Are aware that people in wies Baden Are worried and that Steps Are being taken to ensure their Security still army officials have declined to say what specific Steps Are being taken Gates and id checkpoints would be the logical Steps Accord ing to Buckley in All three housing areas a Cit owned Road allows traffic to meander unimpeded a teacher at one of the base schools in Wiesbaden said parents have been expressing con Cerns about the Lack of Security anxious Ive heard it Over the years and recently the teacher said in March the German newspaper Wiesbaden Kurrier reported that us and German officials were in talks to give american forces control of the Public Road that passes through one of the housing areas such a move would enable the military to pro vide additional layers of Security the paper reported the army however has not confirmed or gone Public with any such plan army housing in Wiesbaden int the Only unsecured housing in Europe in other branches of the armed forces from Italy to England there Are areas where troops live in open military hous ing communities us air forces in Europe officials declined to get specific about Security protocol at its hous ing facilities we work very closely with Host nation civilian military and Law enforcement officials to ensure the safety of All concerned to ensure the safety of our personnel their families and our re sources we cannot discuss specific information capt Chris Watt said in a prepared statement in at least one army location action has recently been taken to bolster Security Back in october the us army installation in Stuttgart announced plans to turn Over to the German government a 10acre slice of property where americans live outside a Security Fence the push to eliminate the risk posed by the unfenced property was accelerated More than a year ago after Marine Gen James l Jones commander of the us european command ordered All garrisons within Neucom to de crease or eliminate Security vulnerabilities Buckley says vulnerabilities Are All about in Wiesbaden where she argues that being Vigi Lant for signs of danger has Little meaning when trucks and Strang ers Are the Norm on neighbor Hood streets what is there to re port she asked there is no Way for army families to keep a Low profile Here there Are military signs everywhere Buckley said Emai John Vandiver at report says separatists behind most eur attacks attacks in Europe the us embassy in Berlin last week issued a warning of an increased threat of terrorism against us facilities in Germany last year there were 500 terrorist Belg Jutte in 1 Ireland Poland Spain o 8  stars and stripes european Union countries were the targets of nearly 500 acts of terror in 2006 one of which was an islamic organizations failed attempt to inflict mass casualties in Germany according to a recent report by the european police office or eur Roppol the failed Effort Iii Germany represented the Only documented attempt carried out by an islamic group in the eur in 2006 the report stated nonetheless nearly half of the suspects arrested in the eur were allegedly affiliated with islamic terror groups in its March 2007 eur terror ism and situation report eur Roppol reveals that the majority of terrorist 380 perpetrated by separatist terrorist groups targeting France and Spain the attacks in Madrid in 2004 and in London in 2005 resulted in mass casualties and the failed bomb attacks in Germany together with a considerable number of plots disrupted in 2006 Are a Strong reminder that this threat prevails wrote Max Peter rat Zel euro pol director in the Germany Case last july two men were suspected of planting two homemade bombs packed into suitcases in trains in Dortmund and Koblenz the bombs failed to detonate in recent Days German Media outlets have been report ing that the islamic jihad Union could be involved in a terror plot against us bases in Ger Many eur countries in 2006 reported criminal investigations into 59 different terrorist groups of these nine were on the eur list of terrorist organizations a total of 706 individuals suspected of terrorism offences were arrested in 15 member states Vandiver