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Fernando Huarte Santamaría, a leader of the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) in the northern city of Gijón, Asturias, contacted Algerian terrorist Benesmail Abdelkrim in the Villabona prison in 2001. Huarte even got Abdelkrim a furlough to go to the dentist and paid his bill; the two last met in October 2004. A few days later, the police arrested Abdelkrim and found the address of a well-known ETA terrorist in his pocket. Abdelkrim served time with two other notorious prisoners, Spaniard Antonio Toro Castro and Moroccan Rafá Zouhier, two police informants accused in the March 11, 2004 bombings. In April 1997...

Spanish authorities have identified the body of one of the suspected ringleaders of the Madrid train bombings using his parents' saliva. Algerian man Lamari was one of seven key suspects who blew themselves up in an apartment in order to avoid arrest. Lamari's remains are the last to be identified from the apartment in Leganes. Forensic tests on the saliva of the Algerian's parents have confirmed his identity. Lamari became a prime suspect in the March 11 bombs when his fingerprints were found on a book of Koranic verse at the Leganes apartment. Back in 1997, Lamari was arrested by...