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Spain Arrests Suspected Jihadist Leader
2013-09-04
[An Nahar] Police locked away
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
a "suspected jihadist terrorist" wanted by Morocco, in the Spanish north African territory of Melilla on Tuesday, the government in Madrid said.

Officers arrested Mohammed El Bali, who was "in charge of a jihadist cell based in Nador", a nearby town in neighboring Morocco, a short statement from the Spanish interior ministry said.

He was arrested under an international warrant issued by Morocco.

The ministry said it would issue further details later.

Melilla, home to around 80,000 people, has one of the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
's two land borders with Africa, along with another Spanish territory, Ceuta to the west.

In June Spanish security forces broke up an al-Qaeda-linked network operating in Ceuta and the neighboring Moroccan town of Fnideq, arresting eight people.

That network was suspected of sending dozens of Islamist bully boyz -- some minors -- to Syria, in some cases to carry out suicide kabooms, the ministry said at the time
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