Thursday, Jan 13, 2005
German police raid mosques
BERLIN, JAN. 12. Police arrested 14 persons during raids of apartments and mosques in five German States on Wednesday in a crackdown on an Islamist extremist organisation suspected of aiding terrorists, authorities said.
About 700 officers conducted the raids, which capped a long-term investigation against 20 persons suspected of operating a criminal network based in the city of Ulm, according to prosecutors in Munich, where authorities coordinated the probe.
The suspects are alleged to have raised money through smuggling and producing false papers to "pursue their ideological goals,'' the prosecutor's office said in a statement.
— AP
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