Police have been warned about a possible terrorist attack in Germany.
Officials in Berlin have met to discuss the warning which came from a foreign security agency.
A magazine has reported a terror cell could strike as early as this weekend.
The alert raises the prospect that another terror cell may be using Germany as a base to plan and carry out attacks.
Three of the suicide pilots in the September 11 attacks had lived as students in Hamburg, while police arrested suspected members of another terror ring in Frankfurt a year ago.