Five Detained, Suspected of Planning Attack
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German prosecutors said they had detained five people whom they suspected were planning an attack in Germany to coincide with the start of the U.S.-led war against Iraq.
Federal prosecutors said in a statement they were investigating the five unnamed people on suspicion of forming an “Islamist terrorist association” with the aim of recruiting Arab students and planning bomb attacks in Germany.
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