Police have detained five suspected Islamic militants as part of a French inquiry into the Sept. 11 attacks, French judicial sources said on Wednesday. The DST domestic intelligence agency arrested the five on Tuesday in Selestat and Colmar, in the eastern Alsace region, as part of an investigation led by anti-terrorist judges Jean-Louis Bruguiere and Jean-Francois Richard, the sources said.
Prosecutors suspect the men of having links with Karim Mehdi, 35, a Moroccan arrested in June 2003 at Paris’s main airport and being investigated on a terrorism charge.Full Story
