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| Ten held in Europe for Al Qaeda ties |
| 2008-05-17 |
| 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 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 (IMU), 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. |
| Posted by:Fred |