German authorities on Wednesday said they searched dozens ofhomes of alleged Muslim extremists across the country and detained threepeople.
A spokesman for the State Office of CriminalInvestigation of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Horst Haug, told the AssociatedPress that 43 homes were searched in several cities across the countryon Wednesday.
Seven people in total are suspectedof recruiting for extremist Muslim groups and three of them had beendetained, Huag said. The other four are currently in Egypt and Saudi-Arabia.
Theprosecutor's office in Stuttgart accuses the seven men, who are between24- and 59-years-old, of getting more than 100 people in Germany toattend an Egyptian Koranic school known to recruit for terror camps.