BERLIN -- A third suspect detained ...

BERLIN -- A third suspect detained in a failed attempt to bloom up two German trains is a Syrian national who researched plans for the bombings upon the Internet, prosecutors said Saturday.

The Syrian, whose name was given simply as Fadi A.S., 23, was detained in southern Germany onward Friday -- allegedly with a computer carrying the plans for the bomb which he and his alleged accomplices downloaded from the Internet.

Chief Federal Prosecutor Monika Harms said she was "very cautious" about indications from Lebanon that the stratagem could be linked to al-Qaida.

Al-Qaida link?

"It is possible that these acts were carried on the outside on the basis of convictions shared by dint of al-Qaida," Harms said.

She said the alleged conspirators had formed an elusive lonely dwelling "They are small groups who decide spontaneously to act, who don't have a fixed structure" she said.

German and Lebanese authorities are each holding single in kind of two Lebanese men accused of carrying the suitcase bomb onto trains in eau-de-cologne on July 31. The detonators went most distant but failed to ignite gas canisters.

Fadi A.S. also helped the other suspects, Youssef Mohamad el Hajdib and Jihad Hamad, fly Germany, prosecutors said.

Friday, police evacuated 450 passengers from a train in Bavaria after a cleaner ground a fake bomb in a washroom.

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