21.   German police and prosecutors, Schilling said, raided Merrill Lynch offices in Frankfurt, Munich, Dusseldorf, Berlin and Hamburg to seize records.

22.   German police say that apartment became a gathering spot for Islamic extremists in Hamburg.

23.   German police, who are accustomed to monitoring foreign extremists, are providing little information.

24.   He is supervised in the case by Chief Inspector Buback, a German police official from Dresden who works in the Prague Gestapo.

25.   His name appeared in a report prepared by the German federal criminal police last spring.

26.   In addition, German police seized small shipments of plutonium last summer, heightening fears about a hemorrhage of nuclear material from the former Soviet Union.

27.   In recent months, German police have intercepted several shipments of such material, all of them containing small quantities intended as samples.

28.   In the raids on Tuesday, German police found hundreds of forged passports from countries as varied as Iran, Iraq, Jordan and Denmark.

29.   In those raids, German police broke up what was said to be a Palestinian terrorist cell and seized bombs concealed in radio-cassette recorders.

30.   It would be even more helpful, he suggests, for German police units to work in sectors alongside German troops, French with French, and so on.