French officials say two radical Islamists have been deported and three more are to be expelled.The move appears be a response to last month’s attacks by Mohamed Merah, an Islamist gunman who killed seven people around the city of Toulouse.The interior ministry said two men had been sent back to their home countries of Algeria and Mali, while another three face expulsion orders.On Friday, police arrested 19 suspected Islamist militants in dawn raids.The domestic intelligence agency (DCRI) also seized a number of weapons in the raids, which took place in Toulouse and a number of other cities.French Interior Minister Claude Gueant said the two deported on Monday were a Malian imam who had preached anti-Semitism and advocated wearing the full face veil - which is illegal in France - and Ali Belhadad, an Algerian who has already served a prison sentence for his role in a 1994 Marrakech attack.
