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Islamic radicals blamed for ATM heists

November 23, 2004

The Age: Police and counter-espionage agents in France have detained four people as part of a probe into the theft of euro1 million (U.S. $1.3 million) from cash machines in an alleged money-raising scheme by Islamic radicals.

Police detained two suspects in the working class Seine-Saint-Denis region outside Paris and a couple in the chic Vaucluse region of southern France, police officials said.

The police moved in on the suspects three days after a former employee of delivery and security services firm Brink's was placed under investigation - a step short of being charged -for financing terrorism and for criminal association with a terrorist enterprise.

The group is suspected in the March 11 train bombings in Madrid that killed 191 people.

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