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Ten detained in Europe for suspected Islamist links
Police in Germany, France and the Netherlands arrested 10 people on Friday suspected of providing funding to Islamic extremists in Uzbekistan, officials said.
The 10 men arrested after a yearlong investigation are suspected of belonging to a network involved in funding the Islamist terror organization Islamic Jihad Union, German press agency DPA reported. The group is believed linked to Al Qaida.
Eight arrests took place in France, one in the Netherlands and one in Germany. In Germany, prosecutors said the man arrested in Weil am Rhein in the country's southwest was a 35-year-old of foreign nationality and that he was not wanted by local authorities.
The man is a Turkish immigrant, radio station Südwestrundfunk reported. In France, a source close to the case told news agency Agence France-Presse that eight suspects of Turkish origin thought to have ties to Al-Qaeda were arrested in a suburb of the eastern city of Mulhouse - around 50 kilometres (30 miles) from Weil am Rhein - and in the central Rhone region.
The source said anti-terrorism units moved in on the group as a "pre-emptive" measure and that none of the suspects had committed attacks.
The group "is linked to the Pakistani-Afghan" area, the source added. In the Netherlands the state prosecutor's office said that the man arrested was a 48-year-old Turk in the southern town of Tilburg.
The arrest followed a request from French authorities who have applied for him to be extradited to France, a statement said.
"The French police and intelligence services have over these past months launched a probe into the funding of a Turkish Islamist group"
NB Alan has directed me to the International herlad Tribune which has some background information here.
