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| 'Six Spain suspects were to be suicide bombers' |
| 2008-01-25 |
| Six members of a suspected militant cell from South Asia arrested in Barcelona were ready to blow themselves up on public transport, the Spanish prosecutor-general alleged Thursday. Strange, I thought these attacks were supposed to stop when Spain pulled it's troops out of President Bush's illegal occupation of Iraq. They make any other demands you're not telling us? Candido Conde-Pumpido told a press conference that two others were the suspected commando chiefs of the group, while the other two were explosives experts. They were intending to attack the Catalonian capital’s public transport system “very soon”, he added. The Spanish authorities have nevertheless admitted that the traces of explosives found during their arrests were not sufficient to mount a major attack. Police arrested a total of 14 suspects last Saturday — a dozen Pakistanis and two Indians. Four have since been released, but on Tuesday a judge at an anti-terrorist tribunal placed the remaining 10 in provisional detention.. The 10 suspects constituted an organised group of extremists, with “clear and precise allocation of roles”, said the judge, Ismael Moreno. The cell had chosen three of its members, all Pakistanis, to commit suicide bomb attacks on Barcelona public transport last weekend, Moreno said in his ruling. |
| Posted by:Fred |