Posted on 12/20/2005 6:22:10 AM PST by Coop
MADRID — Spanish police arrested 16 people Monday who are suspected of recruiting Al Qaeda fighters to send to Iraq, officials said.
The group's alleged leader, a 25-year-old Iraqi known as Abu Sufian, had access to Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq, Abu Musab Zarqawi, and probably sent his recruits on suicide missions, the Interior Ministry said.
The 16, of several nationalities, sent volunteers to Iraq "to wage jihad as members of the Al Qaeda network," Spanish Interior Minister Jose Antonio Alonso told a news conference.
He said the group had two fighters ready to send to Iraq at the time of the arrests...
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Thanks for the ping!
Police later found computer disks with downloaded bomb-making instructions. He had denied the terror charges.
Probably just a merry mixup. I'm sure he was really looking for DU and just misspelled the url.
Neither did it help when we did (Somalia, etc.).
He has been on remand in prison for two years and seven months and is expected to be released in April 2006.
Hopefully they'll be able to recharge him.
There are translations from FBIS of these articles on my website at www.lauramansfield.com
If they would just attack the DEMS.
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