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		</div><p>Heavily armed Swat teams supported by hundreds of other officers have detained 14 people suspected of having ties to Islamic State in early-morning raids in Austria.</p>
<p>An earlier statement from the public prosecutor’s office in Graz had spoken of eight arrests in twin operations there and in Vienna involving 800 police.</p>
<p>But justice ministry official Christian Pilnacek later said the discrepancy was between the eight arrest warrants issued and the 14 people &#8211; 11 men and three women &#8211; actually detained.</p>
<p>Besides suspected links to IS, Mr Pilnacek said those detained were being investigated for attempts to try to set up a &#8220;parallel society &#8230; an attempt to create a kind of theocracy in Austria&#8221;.</p>
<p>Two of the 12 locations raided were mosques, he said.</p>
<p>The police sweep comes less than a week after police in Vienna detained a 17-year-old they describe as belonging to &#8220;radical Salafist&#8221; circles who they said has confessed to experimenting with building a bomb.</p>
<p>But the prosecutor’s statement said Thursday’s operation had been planned for &#8220;a longer time&#8221;, suggesting no immediate link.</p>
<p>Mr Pilnacek did not rule out some overlap to Mirsad Omerovic, a Serbian-born Islamic cleric sentenced last year in Graz to 20 years in prison for recruiting dozens of young men to fight for IS.</p>
<p>But he said he could not say there was a &#8220;direct connection&#8221; in the cases of all of those detained.</p>
<p>Most of them, including some with Austrian nationality, had Balkan antecedents, he said.</p>
<p>Konrad Kogler, Austria’s chief security official, told reporters that data from about 140 mobile phones and other electronic devices must be evaluated, meaning &#8220;weeks and months of work ahead of us&#8221;.</p>
<p>Austria has not experienced the attacks that have rocked other nations in Europe.</p>
<p>But interior ministry figures show that approximately 300 people have left or tried to leave Austria to fight for radical groups in the Middle East since 2012.</p>
<p>Of these, 90 have returned while 50 are listed as having been killed in fighting.</p>
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