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Islamic fundamental networks are turning Spain into a nursery for martyrs in Iraq
2006-01-27
Yes, yes. The sons of Allan are returning to the cradle of al-Andalus.
"Spain has become the centre of a network of Al Qaeda terrorist cells, whose task is to recruit Jihad fighters prepared to die in Iraq." So said a senior police office last week, and the figures he produces would seem to support his statement. Last year alone, the police disbanded four groups dedicated to the recruitment of ‘martyrs’ for the cause, which is to perpetrate suicide attacks against the occupation forces in Iraq.

More than 50 people have been arrested by the Spanish police since June 2005, accused of belonging to terrorist cells involved in recruitment. It was then that police operations against these terrorists began, with names like Operations Tigris, Sello, La Unión, Jackal, Chameleon and Genesis. The number of recruiters arrested in Spain is almost as large as the number arrested for the same reason in the rest of the entire European Union during the same period.

The police will not put a figure on the number of Muslim residents in this country who might have joined these terrorist organisations run by the United States’ public enemy number two, Abu Musab Al Zarqawi. But there is talk of dozens of them, at least. The National Police and the Guardia Civil have identified almost 50 young radicals living in the Cataluña, Madrid, Andalucía and the Alicante regions, all of whom have disappeared from their homes and are thought to have travelled to Iraq.
Posted by: Anonymoose

#2  "...thought to have travelled to Iraq."
So Spain did not really withdraw all their forces from Iraq after the Madrid bombings - they just switched sides?
Posted by: Glenmore   2006-01-27 10:47  

#1  The first is the huge police pressure being applied following the train bombings in Madrid on 11 March, 2004. This pressure prevented the establishment of terrorist cells with members prepared to act in this country. “Future terrorists prefer to carry out their Holy War in other places, where they have less chance of being captured before they go into action,” says one of the police chiefs involved in the fight against terrorism.

They have less chance of being captured? Why? Do the police say, excuse me martyr, but do you plan on blowing yourself up here or somewhere else? They have less chance of being captured because the police don't bother to disrupt the cells headed for Iraq.
Posted by: 2b   2006-01-27 01:04  

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