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| 14 Arrested in Spain on Terror Charges |
| 2007-05-28 |
| Police arrested 14 people Monday on charges of recruiting volunteers for terror training in Afghanistan and Iraq. Eleven suspects were arrested in Barcelona and in two other northeastern towns. Two others were arrested in the central town of Aranjuez, and one in the southern city of Malaga, a National Police spokesman said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as police force rules forbid him from being identified. The suspects were believed to be Moroccan and they faced charges of recruiting people to be sent for training in camps in Afghanistan and Iraq. The spokesman said the police operation was continuing and that there could be more arrests. A substantial amount of computer material was seized during the pre-dawn raids, he said. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #9 I'm sure they had Moroccan passports |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-05-28 20:46 |
| #8 mrp: AKI also reports that many of the arrested were Paks. I wasn't aware that there was a substantial Pakistani community in Spain, and wouldn't have thought that the Moroccans would be very welcoming of such... |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-05-28 20:45 |
| #7 Hey it's the HoseMan. Shamu is send greeters. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-05-28 14:43 |
| #6 It's a quagmire. Let's redeploy our sailors in Spain to Okinawa. LOL ed, yeah back to Fat Rosie O'Murtha's Wading Pool! |
| Posted by: RD 2007-05-28 14:06 |
| #5 It's a quagmire. Let's redeploy our sailors in Spain to Okinawa. |
| Posted by: ed 2007-05-28 13:55 |
| #4 humm.. one more big jihadi op in Spain [a la Madrid Train Station] might roll the Spaniards back to an unenlightened Medieval period. |
| Posted by: RD 2007-05-28 13:53 |
| #3 The jihadi movement is brain-dead if they really plan to train Moroccans in Afghanistan. Here are some reasons why this is stupid: They don't look like locals. They can't speak any of the local languages. There is limited mobility in and out of Afghanistan. A "camp" of any size will be noticeable to informants. Both Afghanistan and Iraq are free-fire zones who Americans forces that think they have detected a collection of training bad guys. A "fearless leader" of even moderate metality could choose any of half a dozen training venues that didn't invovle JDAM interruptions. Lebanaon, Sudan, Somolia or Iran are just a few. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2007-05-28 11:36 |
| #2 There's more about this in the AKI article. Excerpt: The Spanish police has recently raised the alarm about the presence of Jihadi militants in Catalonia. Earlier this month, the Spanish Police Federation (CEP) warned that the Catalan region had become "the biggest recruiting centre for Islamist terrorirsts in Europe". It said that four or five jihadi fighters were believed to leave each months from Catalonia headed to Iraq, Chechnya or Afghanistan. AKI also reports that many of the arrested were Paks. |
| Posted by: mrp 2007-05-28 08:14 |
| #1 A substantial amount of computer material was seized during the pre-dawn raids Look for more arrests soon, then, in Spain and elsewhere. Afghanistan and Iraq, f'r instance. Sometimes being the good guys can be so very satisfying. :-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-05-28 08:07 |