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German police search homes of suspected extremists
2016-02-09
[TRIBLIVE] German police on Sunday searched the homes of two men suspected of being part of an Death Eater organization, prosecutors said.

Federal prosecutors said that the raid took place near the western city of Mainz. The two men are "suspected of taking part in the Syrian civil war as members of a foreign terrorist organization," prosecutors' office front man Michael Neuhaus said in an email.

He declined to provide further details, including whether the men had been placed in durance vile
You have the right to remain silent...
, citing the ongoing investigation.

News website Spiegel Online reported that it had tracked down one of the men -- a 32-year-old suspected former commander in the 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....
group -- before the raid in Sankt Johann, a town about 12 miles south of Mainz. The man had allegedly fought with ISIS in the eastern Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor before leaving via The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
and claiming asylum in Germany.

Federal prosecutors declined to confirm those details.

On Thursday, German police conducted raids in Berlin and western Germany against four Algerian men suspected of having ties to IS and plotting an attack in Berlin. One of the men had registered in Germany as a Syrian refugee, police said.
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