Japanese police on Wednesday arrested five foreigners after raiding 10 locations they suspect may be connected to a member of the al-Qaeda terrorist network. The men, three from Bangladesh, one from India and one from Mali, are believed to have received telephone calls from Lionel Dumont, a French man of Algerian descent, with alleged links to al-Qaeda. Mr Dumont, who spent several months in Japan in 2002 and 2003 after entering the country on a false passport, was arrested in Germany in December and extradited to France this month. Japanese police are investigating whether Mr Dumont, a convert to radical Islam, was trying to establish a terrorist cell in Japan. Full Story
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