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German police carry out raids on suspected 'IS' backers
[DeutscheWelle] Raids took place in several German cities in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony on Wednesday morning, with police targeting three Islamist preachers suspected of recruiting members and backers for the holy warrior group "Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
" (IS), German public prosecutors said.

A front man for the prosecutors' office in Karlsruhe told DW that one of the Islamists was believed to have given financial and logistical support to the group. He said that no arrests had been made so far. Police officials confirmed that searches had been carried out in the cities of Dortmund, Duisburg and Hildesheim.

The interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Ralf Jäger, later said there had also been raids in his state in the cities of Dusseldorf and Tönisvorst connected with the three suspects. A report by the newspaper "Westdeutscher Allegemeiner Zeitung" said that the raid in Duisburg targeted a travel agency with a Turkish name. The agency's owner was believed to have contacts to two youths suspected of carrying out an explosives attack on a Sikh temple in Essen in April. The attack, which is thought to have been religiously motivated, injured three men, one seriously. The travel agency owner reportedly used a room on his premises for holding lessons on Islamic doctrine.

The Dormund and Hildesheim raids also targeted preachers suspected of recruiting young men to fight for IS in Syria and Iraq.

Late on Tuesday, police in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate said they had locked away
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
a 24-year-old Syrian asylum-seeker suspected of being a member of IS and acting on behalf of a high-ranking IS figure.

German police on Wednesday arrested another man in the city of Dinslaken in connection with the same investigation. Jäger said that the second arrest was related to "acts of violence" in Syria. He also denied media reports that the Syrian asylum-seeker in the first arrest was planning to carry out an attack at the start of the Bundesliga football season.
Posted by: trailing wife 2016-08-11
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