Police kill Islamists in anti-terrorism operation

In France the police conducted a large-scale anti-terrorism operation.Ten men and one woman were arrested in the action.Strasbourg was a bloody end to the crackdown: A suspect was shot. The man had opened fire as he was to be arrested on Saturday as part of a nationwide anti-terror mission in his Strasbourg apartment.Policemen fired back and killed him.The 33-year-old had "acted very determined, possibly with the intent to die as a martyr," said the Strasbourg prosecutor Patrick Poirret.Apparently in preparation for his death he had previously shaved his beard, as it was called.According to the French authorities, it was an Islamist.The 33-year-old was "known for his membership in the jihadist movement" been anti-terrorism prosecutor Francois Molins said Saturday in Paris.He was convicted as a drug dealer and later converted to radical Islam.The fingerprints of the 33-year-old had been found on the site of a grenade, the middle of last month, had been thrown into a Jewish grocery store near Paris.

Raid after raid on kosher store in Sarcelles

In the Paris region and in Cannes, two men were arrested, which should belong to the radical Islamic scene of Salafists.At least some of the ten detainees had had a list of stop locations, the French news agency AFP reported, citing police circles.However, it was unclear whether there were specific plans or just to talk.The raid in several parts of the country was reported to be associated with an anti-Semitic attack on a shop for kosher products in the Paris suburb of Sarcelles.On 19September, two unknown persons had thrown a light bomb in the store, there was one person injured.Associations of French Jews had then expressed confidence that the attack by the outrage in the Muslim world over the publication of the defamatory videos "The innocence of the Muslims" about the Prophet Mohammed on the Internet stands in context.