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January 24, 2006
Spain: Suspected Islamist Arrested
Expatica today reports that a Moroccan man was arrested on Sunday in the town of Estepona in southern Spain.
The man, Mohamed Anouar Zaoudi was arrested as part of an operation which commenced in Catalonia on 10 January by police and intelligence agencies.
Zaoudi worked for the leader of a fundamentalist group, Mohamed Mrabet Fahsi. One of the 20 people arrested on Jan 10 was the leader of the mosque at Vilanova i la Geltru in Catalonia. Another man, 23-year old Omar Nakhcha, was arrested in another Catalan location on January 12, Santa Coloma de Gramanet, near Barcelona.
Zaoudi, like the others arrested this month, is accused of recruiting individuals to fight as insurgents in Iraq. Their arrest came after monitoring international operations of the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM) and the Algerian-based Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC).
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at January 24, 2006 12:58 PM
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