Security agents have detained seven people suspected of being part of a network funneling French Islamic militants to Iraq, police said Tuesday. Two of the seven were women, according to the television station LCI. The seven, whose names were not released, were arrested Monday in Paris, the police said. Under France's anti-terrorism law, they can be held for up to four days before being released or placed under investigation.On September 22, judicial authorities opened an investigation to determine whether a network for sending Islamic combatants to Iraq exists in France. The investigation was opened after the bodies of several French were discovered in recent months in Iraq. Experts in France have said in the past that they do not believe there is a substantial France-based network to help Muslim extremists make their way to Iraq to fight U.S.-led multinational forces there. However, there have been numerous arrests of suspected al Qaeda-linked cells in France. Six people are on trial in Paris in connection with an alleged al Qaeda-inspired plot to bomb the U.S. Embassy there. In neighboring Germany, numerous arrests linked to Iraq have been made recently. On Sunday, German security forces arrested two alleged al Qaeda members, an Iraqi and a Palestinian, accused of plotting an attack in Iraq. Earlier this month, German police arrested 22 people to break up an alleged network of Muslim extremists suspected of falsifying passports and spreading militant Islamic propaganda.