Saturday, May 17, 2008

French Arrest Ten in Connection with Terror Probe

Via USAToday.com -

Authorities in France, Germany and the Netherlands on Friday detained at least 10 people suspected of helping to fund al-Qaeda-linked militants with roots in Uzbekistan, officials said.

One suspect was detained in Germany, another in the Netherlands, with the rest detained in France, said a senior French police official who was only authorized to discuss the arrests on condition of anonymity.

The suspects' nationalities were not given but officials said they were Turkic-speaking.
French police suspect they collected funds for the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, a militant group said by the United States to have close ties to al-Qaeda.


The senior official described the arrests as "preventative" because the funds thought to have been collected were not known to have been used to carry out terror attacks.

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