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Europe
French Police Arrest 11 in Al Qaeda Recruiting Network
2007-02-14
Must have caught them in between Temple burnings
PARIS — French counter terrorism police arrested 11 suspects as part of efforts aimed at dismantling an alleged Al Qaeda-linked recruiting network to send radical traditional Islamic fighters to Iraq, police officials said Wednesday.
Esquimaux Liberation Front getting fiesty again?
Nine suspects were detained in and near the southern city of Toulouse before dawn Wednesday, following the arrest of two others at Orly airport in Paris who had just been sent home by Syrian authorities, police said. Two of the suspects, mostly aged in their 20s, had sought to enter Iraq through neighboring Syria, but were detained by police there and remanded into French custody, police said. An investigation was continuing.

As part of the probe, investigators turned up letters sent to supermarkets in the region near Toulouse that threatened bomb attacks, said a police official on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.

The ministry said the nine arrested in southwestern France all were from the region and were "suspected of having links with the terrorist organization Al Qaeda." Police investigators had monitored the suspects for months, according to the Interior Ministry, which first announced the arrests in a statement.
Questions, will the French give them 20 or 30 days of jail time? Will they be released in time for the now traditional Islamic Paris burning festival?
Posted by:Icerigger

#1  Is Paris Burning? I used to think that this was a movie - but if the French, don't get the 'French' out of France this may be reality.
Posted by: CB   2007-02-14 16:12  

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