Another terror suspect arrested in France
French police have today arrested a seventh man suspected of belonging to a network recruiting Islamic fighters to send to Iraq.
The 35-year-old Frenchman of African origin was arrested at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, police said.
He lives in Toulouse in south-west France, where most of the six other suspects were arrested yesterday.
The men are all linked to a group arrested in February accused of working with an al-Qaida cell in Saudi Arabia.
An anti-terrorism unit made five of the arrests in the Toulouse region and one in the rural Lot region, officials said.
The men were aged 25 to 45 and were close to six people arrested in February, two of whom were arrested in Syria and expelled to France.
Police said the network initially sent recruits to Egypt to learn Arabic and teachings of Salafists "in the most radical schools".
Via a cell implanted in Saudi Arabia and linked to al-Qaida, they were then put in touch with a network in Syria that took them to Iraq "to commit terrorist acts, notably suicide attacks".
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