Police raid militants

Armed police in New Zealand arrested 17 people yesterday in raids on military-style training camps and private homes after a year-long inquiry.

Three hundred police swooped on several locations on the North Island, including the isolated eastern cost.

The raids appear to have targeted Maori, political and environmental activists, all carried out under the Suppression of Terrorism Act and the Firearms Act.

(China Daily 10/16/2007 page11)