| Police searched an Islamic cultural center and mosque in Cologne on Thursday after receiving a tip from immigration authorities that it might be being used to form a radical Islamic network, police said. City immigration authorities first became suspicious in November 2003 when many Moroccans and Tunisians requested lodging in the apartment of one of the association’s members, a 28-year-old Moroccan, police said in a statement. Police searched both the offices of the Islamic Cultural Center of Cologne, the associated Al Tauhid mosque and the apartment on a warrant issued by a Cologne court. No arrests were made and "there is no hint that attacks were being planned in Germany or elsewhere," said police spokesman Wolfgang Baltes. At the center of the investigation is a group of 10 men and one women, ages 22 to 35, who were members of the cultural center, police said. "There is the suspicion that those concerned built a secret network of Arabic mujahadeen," a police statement said. Police said the Al Tauhid mosque preaches a strict version of Sunni Islam. |