Posted on 01/19/2005 10:28:44 AM PST by knighthawk
Spanish police have arrested an Algerian man wanted for allegedly providing logistical support for the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US.
Tahar Izerouel was detained in the Basque city of Bilbao on Tuesday, police said.
He was one of eight people indicted by senior judge Baltasar Garzon on Monday for being part of what he called a Spanish al-Qaeda cell.
Six of the others are already in jail - five in Spain and one in the UK.
Judge Garzon said the group of eight had provided logistical support, false identity papers and other documents to Ramzi Binalshibh, a suspected al-Qaeda member who is in US custody, and to other members linked to the attacks.
Judge Garzon has already indicted another 40 people on charges of belonging to an al-Qaeda cell in Spain.
Twenty-one of them are due to go on trial over the next few weeks. The other 19 are still at large.
Investigators have said Spain, along with Germany, was a major staging ground for the preparation of the 11 September attacks.
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Spain is starting to believe in NIMBY after the train explosions. It just took a big bang to wake them up.
Too bad it led to the election of a appeasing socialist.
TRUE but they learned something anyway. They are going to throw the bums ie (al-qaeda and the likes) to the correct authorities. To rid them from their shores.
They've arrested PM Zapatero?
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