Ultras held in Germany linked to Osama?

FRANKFURT, DEC. 28. German police have arrested four Muslims who possibly trained in the Saudi terrorist mastermind, Osama bin Laden's Afghan camps, and seized weapons that included bazookas, detonators and a grenade.

Federal prosecutors in Karlsruhe who oversee anti- terrorist police said today the four were loosely affiliated to the international network of ``mujahideen'' that has been trained by Osama's Al-Qaida movement which teaches small-scale war and bomb attack methods.

The detainees rounded up in Frankfurt are being investigated for being members of a criminal association, the catch-all charge in Germany used against terrorists. Two homes were searched, and police said they found rifles, bazookas, submachineguns, ammunition, 20 kg of a chemical commonly used to make explosives, homemade detonators and one hand-grenade.The identity of the four cannot be conclusively established because their papers are fake, prosecutors said.

- DPA

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