France Expands Anti-Terror Investigation
France’s counterterrorism agency detained another four people Wednesday, expanding an investigation of a network suspected of funneling French Islamic militants to Iraq, authorities said. The latest arrests raised the number of people in custody to 10, judicial officials said. The justice minister suggested the roundup, which started Monday in the Paris region, was timed to allow France’s domestic counterterrorism agency, known as the DST, to gather better information. “The anti-terrorist struggle is a daily war,” Justice Minister Dominique Perben, said on France-2 television. “It is a meticulous job to work back up the networks, to draw connections between names, between types of behavior and methods of action.”Full Story