A Spanish judge accused a Moroccan inmate on Tuesday of membership in an Islamic militant group to which the chief suspect in the murder of an outspoken Dutch filmmaker also allegedly belonged, court documents showed. High Court Judge Baltasar Garzon, who leads several investigations into suspected Islamic militant groups in Spain, accused Abdeladim Akoudad of providing logistical support to the radical group. The Netherlands has arrested a man identified only as Mohammed B. on suspicion of killing Theo van Gogh, a critic of Islam, two weeks ago. "He (Akoudad) is believed to be a leading-level member of a terrorist group based in Holland," a court document said. "Another member of the network would be Mohammed Bouyeri, alias Abu Zubair, suspected author of the murder of Theo van Gogh."
Akoudad has been held in Spain since October 2003 on an extradition request from Morocco, which wants him in connection with suicide bombings that killed dozens in Casablanca in May last year. In other investigations Garzon has asserted that Islamic militant suspects organize from jail, in part through letters that are surreptitiously read by prison authorities. One of Garzon's investigations involves the 2003 suicide bombings in Casablanca. Dutch authorities are investigating a possible link between the stabbing and shooting two weeks ago of Van Gogh and the Casablanca bombings. |