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Filmmaker's murder: Islamists held

Amsterdam: Dutch prosecutors said on Thursday police had arrested eight more suspected Islamist radicals as part of ongoing investigations into the brutal killing of outspoken Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh. The arrests were made in the 24 hours following Van Gogh's slaying while he was cycling down an Amsterdam street, said a prosecution spokeswoman. They are in addition to the arrest of the alleged killer, a 26-year-old Amsterdam resident of Moroccan origin. Six of the detenus are of Moroccan ancestry, one is Algerian and the last has dual Spanish-Moroccan nationality, AP was told. The Dutch have reacted with outrage to the killing of the celebrity filmmaker who criticised Islam, testing the nation's famed tolerance and straining already tense relations with the large Muslim immigrants.

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