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France arrests 11 in Iraq fighter recruitment probe
14 Feb 2007 09:03:48 GMT
Source: Reuters
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PARIS, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Police have arrested 11 people, including four women, in Paris and the south of France as part of an anti-terrorist operation targeting networks recruiting fighters in Iraq, a police source said on Wednesday.

Six people were arrested in the suburb of the southern town Toulouse early on Wednesday morning. Several of them had arrived in France on Tuesday night from Syria, the source said.

Two other people were arrested in southwestern France and three in a Paris suburb.

The operation was organised by the anti-terrorist section of France's judicial police.


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