France Detains Nine in Anti-Terror Sweep

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By PIERRE-ANTOINE SOUCHARD, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 1 minute ago

PARIS - French police on Monday detained nine people suspected of ties to a fundamentalist Algerian militant group possibly planning to attack France, officials said.

In Italy, police searched some 20 apartments and offices around the city of Milan that may be linked to 11 Algerians suspected of sending money to the same militant organization, the Salafist Group for Call and Combat. The Algerian-based group has declared its allegiance to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network.

No one was arrested in the Italian raids and it was not immediately clear whether the raids in the two countries were coordinated.

French television station LCI said the group, known by its French initials GSPC, was suspected of planning attacks in France.

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