World News Article | Reuters.co.uk
World News Article | Reuters.co.uk
German police arrest 22 suspected Islamists
Wed Jan 12, 2005 02:37 PM GMT
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ULM, Germany (Reuters) – Police have arrested 22 people in a series of pre-dawn raids across Germany in pursuit of Islamic extremists suspected of helping militant groups and recruiting fighters for “holy war”.
The operation was one of the biggest of its kind in Germany, which has stepped up surveillance of suspected extremists among its Muslim population of more than three million since the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
