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| Seven held over 'Iraq connection' |
| 2005-06-22 |
| FRENCH police are holding seven people on suspicion of providing support for the Islamist insurgency in Iraq, officials said today. The seven - aged between 20 and 35 - were detained yesterday in the central city of Limoges and the southern city of Montpellier. In Limoges police also raided a shop and removed a quantity of material in a cardboard box, witnesses said. According to Le Figaro newspaper, some of the seven are suspected of having telephone contact with members of the Iraqi group Ansar al-Islam. The arrests were carried out by the domestic intelligence service DST on the instructions of anti-terrorist judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere who is investigating the recruitment of French volunteers to fight against the US army in Iraq. |
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