Suspected Islamist extremists arrested in Paris area

There is probably no connection with these islamists to the bomb scare at a Paris department store. A phone called made to French authorites warned them about a bomb planted at a department store. This is not the M.O. of terrorists. Fance 24

Police arrested seven suspected Islamic extremists in Paris on Tuesday who are believed to have links to groups that send fighters to Iraq, police officials said.

French intelligence officers and anti-terrorist police first arrested a young Frenchman who had converted to Islam and then hauled in six people he associated with, the sources said.

The arrests were not connected to an incident Tuesday in which police found dynamite in a Paris department store after an unknown group threatened attacks unless France pulls its troops out of Afghanistan, officials said.