Posted on 07/03/2004 6:15:12 AM PDT by knighthawk
A Spanish judge has ordered an Algerian man be remanded in custody indefinitely as part of investigations into the Madrid bombings in March which killed almost 200 people.
Nasreddine Bousbaa was arrested this week and is suspected of being involved in producing fake passports for the suspected perpetrators of the March 11 train bombings.
Bousbaa has admitted knowing Jamal Ahmidam, one of the suspected masterminds of the four coordinated attacks on packed commuter trains heading for Madrid, in which 191 people were killed and 1,900 wounded.
Ahmidam was one of seven suspects who blew themselves up on April 3 as police closed in on a flat they were using in the Madrid suburb of Leganes.
Bousbaa, 39, admitted falsifying passports for profit but denied producing any for the bombing suspects, the officials said.
However, investigators have linked him with passports and documents found during investigations into the bombings, including documents found in the Leganes apartment.
Questioned by Judge Juan del Olmo, Bousbaa was unable to explain several telephone calls he made in the days before the bombings to people suspected of involvement in the attacks, the officials said.
Bousbaa is the 14th person now in custody in connection with the Madrid attacks.
Ping
Good Grief! Indefinitly? We are going to have to send the ACLU down there or get our Supreme Court to go.
You shouldn't have done this, Spain. This will cancel
all the good will you generated by voting in an Iraq-troop-evacuating Socialist, and now you will be back
where you started.
Mr.Hammer,meet Mr.Nailhead.
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