In a joint swoop security service agents in France, Germany and the Netherlands have arrested ten terror suspects accused of funding Islamist extremists linked to al-Qaeda.
The broadcaster "France Info" says a year-long probe led to eight German postal service hit by warning strikes ...
At least 20 killed in Mogadishu fighting ... arrests in France's eastern city of Mulhouse and the Rhone region by the French agency DST. All are reportedly Turkish nationals or of Turkish origin. A nineth suspect was arrested in the Dutch town of Tilburg. The tenth was arrested in Weil am Rhein, a German town bordering France, according to the German public broadcaster SWR. It said the suspects were accused of having links with the Islamic Jihad Union or IJU, an Uzbek-based al-Qaeda affiliate. The IJU came to prominence last year when three alleged members were arrested in Germany for plotting a car-bomb attack.
(Deutsche Welle)
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