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– ANTI TERROR SWOOP IN EUROPE

 

 

In a joint swoop security service agents in France, Germany and the Holland have arrested, on 05/16/2008 night, ten terror suspects accused of funding Islamist extremists linked to Al Qaeda.

The broadcaster “France Info” says a year-long probe led to eight arrests in France’s eastern city of Mulhouse and the Rhone region by the French agency DST. All are reportedly Turkish nationals or of Turkish origin. A nineth suspect was arrested in the Dutch town of Tilburg. The tenth was arrested in Weil am Rhein, a German town bordering France.

According to the German public broadcaster SWR. It said the suspects were accused of having links with the Islamic Jihad Union or IJU in Uzbekistan . IJU is an Uzbek-based Al Qaeda affiliated organization. The IJU came to prominence last year when three alleged members were arrested in Germany in connection with the Ramstein Plot .

 

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