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German intelligence cracks terror group's codes
20 December 2004
HAMBURG - German intelligence services have deciphered secret codes used by the
Ansar al-Islam organization which is suspected of being behind many of the
kidnappings and terror attacks in Iraq, according to German news magazine
Focus.
In a report, Focus quotes police and intelligence authorities as saying the
arrest of a man believed to have been planning an attack on Iraq's interim
Prime Minister Iyad Allawi in Berlin earlier this month has led to the codes
being deciphered.
Franz-Hellmutt Schuerholz, president of Baden-Wuertemberg state police
department, is quoted as saying: "We have managed to break the structures
of the terrorist organization from the outside."
The report said that with the help of the arrested suspect authorities
deciphered coded email and mobile telephone messages going right to the top of
the organization.
Three men are detained in Germany on grounds of belonging to a terrorist
organization following their arrests shortly before Allawi's visit to Germany
on December 3.
They are believed to be members of the banned northern Iraqi Kurdish group
Ansar al-Islam.
DPA
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