The next "terrorist" cell?
"Sweep pursues ring of people smugglers
PARIS - Police across Europe detained 75 people suspected of funneling illegal immigrants - mainly Iraqi Kurds - into northern Europe, French officials said. Yesterday's sweep - dubbed "Operation Baghdad" - was the result of a broad investigation into a complex people-smuggling ring believed to have brought hundreds of people from Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere in recent years to Britain, Ireland, and countries in Scandinavia. Paris prosecutors said in a statement that police had uncovered a "well-structured transnational cell" and arrested 24 people in the capital and other French towns and cities. About 1,300 police officers from 10 European countries were mobilized for the sweep, the French Interior and Immigration ministries said in a joint statement (AP)."
