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Police arrest six for alleged membership of banned National Action nazi group
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SIX people were arrested today on suspicion of being members of the banned neonazi group National Action (NA).

West Midlands Police said the arrests were part of a planned operation which included other English counterterrorism units.

The suspects, aged 21 to 37, comprise five men from Cambridge, Banbury, Wolverhampton, Leicester and Stockport, and a woman from Banbury.

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