French authorities detained seven suspected Islamic militants who allegedly took part in weapons training in eastern France and had planned to travel to Iraq, police officials said Friday. The seven men, all French citizens born between 1963 and 1985, were detained Tuesday in the eastern city of Besancon and the nearby town of Pontarlier, the officials said. Police raids of the suspectsÂ’ homes turned up munitions, handguns and pump and automatic rifles, officials said on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing. The case was to be transferred to Paris anti-terrorism judges on Friday, the officials said. Since the Iraq war erupted in 2003, France has sporadically detained suspects who sought to fight in the insurgency against the US-backed government there. The last such publicly announced case of this kind was in February, when police detained 11 people suspected of ties to an Al Qaeda recruiting network for the Iraq insurgency.