Spanish police arrested two suspected members of al-Qaida. The pair had been on the run since a major raid against the organization late last year. The two men, a Moroccan and an Algerian, were arrested on a warrant by Judge Baltasar Garzon as part of an operation that jailed eight people in Spain last November for their alleged role in the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and the Pentagon. A statement from Interior Ministry headquarters in Madrid said the two were arrested at in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, near Barcelona. The Moroccan was identified as Mohamed Najib Chaib, 35, and the Algerian as 31-year-old Atmane Resali.
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