Bomb plot suspects in Germany want to confess - lawyers

By Anneli Palmen

DUESSELDORF, Germany (Reuters) - Four German and Turkish men standing trial for planning bomb attacks on U.S. targets in Germany will confess to some of the charges, defence lawyers said on Tuesday.

Ricarda Lang, the lawyer representing defendant Adem Yilmaz, told reporters her client was getting fed up with the trial and wanted to shorten it.

"He doesn't want to go through the proceedings anymore, he is bored," she said.

Yilmaz did not want to be standing up in court during Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting and religious reflection that begins in mid-August, Lang added.

Prosecutors say the four defendants planned attacks designed to be as destructive as the Sept. 11, 2001 strikes in the United States and had identified bars, discos and the U.S. Ramstein air base as possible targets.

German investigators began monitoring the group in early 2007 and arrested it on Sept. 4 that year.

The trial was expected to last two years but presiding judge Ottmar Breidling said it could now be shortened by a year.

The charges against the four men include preparing bomb attacks and being members of a terrorist organisation. If convicted, they face up to 15 years in jail.