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Spanish judge indicts 22 for terror (suspect links to recruitment network sending fighters to Iraq)
AP on Yahoo ^ | 10/23/07 | Harold Heckle - ap

Posted on 10/23/2007 7:21:50 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

MADRID, Spain - A Spanish judge has indicted 22 people suspected of links to a recruitment network sending fighters to Iraq, a court said Tuesday.

National Court judge Baltasar Garzon charged 18 of the suspects with belonging to a terrorist organization, and the other four were accused of collaborating with it, the statement said.

The cell's mission was to send potential fighters to Iraq "so they might join in terrorist activity sponsored and directed by al-Qaida," Garzon said.

One of those arrested, Moroccan Omar Nakhcha, 24, was also charged with helping some of those involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombings to escape from justice. The bombings killed 191 people and wounded 1,800.

A total of 28 people, most of them Moroccans, have gone to trial in connection with the bombings. The five-month trial ended in July and a verdict is expected in late October.

In France, meanwhile, police detained six men suspected of being connected to a group in that country that recruited Islamic fighters to send to Iraq, officials said.

The suspects were close to six people arrested in February for allegedly working with an al-Qaida cell in Saudi Arabia, police and judicial officials said.

Prosecutors said in February that the recruits were initially sent to Egypt to learn Arabic and religion in radical schools. Via a cell in Saudi Arabia linked to al-Qaida, the recruits were then put in touch with a network in Syria that took them to Iraq to carry out attacks, prosecutors said.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: indicts; iraq; judge; spanish; terror; wot

1 posted on 10/23/2007 7:21:51 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
Well, these events seem rather odd. This is in view of Ray Robison's recent article in the American Thinker. See the link:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1904667/posts

More specifically, ..."the Madrid train bombings caused the Spaniards to demand an end to that government's involvement in the war on terror."

2 posted on 10/23/2007 10:51:40 PM PDT by LjubivojeRadosavljevic
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To: LjubivojeRadosavljevic
That what Ray Robinson says is simply not true because Spanish troops remainded in Afghanisthan.

Judge Garzón is indicting people right now very probably as a part of a disinformation campaign to cover-up what 3/11 was really all about.

Check this.
3 posted on 10/24/2007 10:14:51 AM PDT by J Aguilar (Veritas vos liberabit)
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To: J Aguilar
"...what Ray Robi[n]son says is simply not true..."

And, you are correct (I was wondering if someone would take note of this).

4 posted on 10/24/2007 3:42:03 PM PDT by LjubivojeRadosavljevic
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