German authorities staged raids in several cities Wednesday in search of evidence against Islamic extremists suspected of planning terrorist attacks, federal prosecutors said. A total of 160 federal agents detained suspects for questioning and began searches before dawn at 11 locations in or near the cities of Munich, Wiesbaden, Mannheim, Ludwigshafen and Worms, the Federal Prosecutor's Office said in a statement. There were no immediate arrests. The raids are part of an investigation started last year that focuses on three men suspected of forming a militant Islamic terrorist association that planned attacks, the statement said. Prosecutors gave no immediate details on the alleged attack plans or the number of people questioned. There was no evidence of any links to the Sept. 11 plot against the United States, the statement said. Last week, German police raided two Islamic centers on suspicion they were sheltering a terrorist group that planned to attack a U.S. target in Germany and had links to the Hamburg cell of Sept. 11 suicide pilots. No arrests were made then. Wednesday's raids were unrelated, federal prosecutors said.
Sure, no relation at all. |