KARLSRUHE, Germany, Nov 23 (AFP)  Investigators have raided homes in southern
 Germany as part of a probe into an alleged terrorist group that backs the Kurdistan Workers
 Party (PKK) in Turkey, prosecutors said Thursday.

 Prosecutors said the searches in the southern German states of Bavaria and
 Baden-Wuerttemberg had targeted the KOMITEE group, which includes mainly German left-wing
 extremists accused of using violence to support the PKK's armed struggle for an independent
 Kurdish homeland in southeastern Turkey.

 The prosecutor's office in the southern city of Karlsruhe said that one German suspect had been
 detained for questioning.

 Another three have evaded arrest warrants since May 1995.

 It added that electronic components and chemical substances used in the construction of
 explosives had been confiscated during the raid.

 The federal prosecutor's office accuses KOMITEE of attacking a military recruiting office in 1984
 and of plotting an unsuccessful bombing of the construction site of a Berlin prison. No one was
 injured in either incident.

 The PKK has been banned in Germany since November 1993.
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The Kurdistan Observer
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