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May 28, 2007
Spain: 15 Islamists Arrested
News from Expatica, AFP, Xinhua, Associated Press and DPA:
The Spanish interior ministry has revealed today that 15 Muslims - thirteen from Algeria and two from Morocco - at locations in Barcelona, Aranjuez (south of Madrid) and in Malaga.
The arrests were ordered by Baltasar Garzon, the National Court investigative magistrate. The raids took place today before dawn, and a "substantial amount" of computer material was seized in the raids, stated Cadena SER Radio. Additionally manuscripts and other documents and mobile phones were seized.
The men are all suspected of recruiting jihadists to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq against coalition forces, and to become part of terror groups operating from North Africa.
The arrests today are related to the arrests of 22 persons which took place at the start of 2006. Twenty were taken on January 10. Another individual from Morocco had been arrested on January 3, 2006 and a Tunisian was arrested in Malaga on February 27 in Malaga. Those individuals had been members of the Algerian terror group known as the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC).
GSPC renamed itself as the Al Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb in April this year. According to AFP, the operation today was codenamed "Tala" and had arrests made in Barcelona and the towns of Igualada and Santa Coloma de Gramanet. Both of these towns are in the regional province of Catalonia, (Catalunya) of which Barcelona is the capital.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at May 28, 2007 2:29 PM
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