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Raids catch Madrid bombing suspects ( Religion of Peace )
Agence France-Presse ^ | October 17, 2008

Posted on 10/16/2008 10:17:34 PM PDT by george76

SPANISH police have arrested 12 north Africans suspected of links to the 2004 Madrid bombings in which 191 people died...

The arrests broke up an "Islamist terrorist cell" that was supporting al-Qaeda...

Eight of the suspects, all Moroccans, were detained in raids carried out overnight ...

Later in the day, four more people - three Moroccans and an Algerian - were arrested ...

The incidents add to a string of terrorism-related arrests and incarcerations.

Spanish courts last year ordered 21 people jailed for life in connection to the bombs left on Madrid commuter trains on March 11, 2004...

In January, Spanish police broke up what they said was a group of mainly Pakistani Islamist extremists

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; muslims; pakistanis; rop; trop

1 posted on 10/16/2008 10:17:34 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76

SPANISH police have arrested 12 north Africans suspected of links to the 2004 Madrid bombings in which 191 people died...

It sucks to be those Pendejos.


2 posted on 10/16/2008 11:38:28 PM PDT by LtKerst (Lt Kerst)
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