Bin Laden has reserve cells on Spanish coast, daily says

Deutsche Presse-Agentur | September 17, 2001 | La Razon

[Wallaby]

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ROUNDUP: Bin Laden has reserve cells on Spanish coast, daily says Deutsche Presse-Agentur September 17, 2001, Tuesday, BC Cycle 13:40 Central European Time

Madrid
Saudi-born millionnaire Osama bin Laden, the main suspect for the recent terror attacks in the United States, has established "dormant" reserve terror cells and contact bases on the Spanish coast, the daily La Razon said Monday.

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The U.S. and Israeli secret services had not let Spain know that they were expecting a terrorist to fly in from Melilla, and the bin Laden aide fled after receiving treatment for injuries, press reports said.

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The network comprises mainly members of Algerian and Moroccan Islamic fundamentalist groups, and has bases in Alicante, Almeria and Malaga, according to the daily. The terrorists reach Spain by taking ferries from Oran, Nador, Tangier or the Spanish enclave of Melilla to Almeria and Algeciras. They use Spain as a transit point for people and information between northern Africa and Europe, La Razon said.

In June, police detained Mohammed Ben Sakhria, a suspected leader for Europe of the organization headed by bin Laden, in Alicante. The Algerian, who was believed to have prepared terror attacks in Strasbourg, was extradited to France.

U.S. press reports have recently said that Mohammed Atta, the terrorist who flew a plane against the northern tower of the World Trade Center on Tuesday, travelled from Miami to Madrid twice this year. Atta is believed to have visited Spain to personally pass information to other terrorists.

The Spanish office of the international police organization Interpol denied press reports that a close aide of bin Laden had escaped from the surveillance of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and of the Israeli secret service Mossad after the plane he was travelling on crashed near Malaga.

Four people were killed and around 30 injured in the crash in August. The U.S. and Israeli secret services had not let Spain know that they were expecting a terrorist to fly in from Melilla, and the bin Laden aide fled after receiving treatment for injuries, press reports said.

An Interpol representative described the reports as "incorrect".

[Wallaby]

Today’s news on suspects:

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• Two terrorists were under investigation by FBI; The Manhunt Intelligence Services Under Attack For Missing Hijackers Living In America

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[livius]

Very interesting. I spend a lot of time in Spain and in fact was in Valencia (Mediterranean coast, not far from Alicante) about a month ago. I think Spain has a serious problem with security. For a long time, that area has been a hangout for the Russian mafia, folks like the "pardoned" financier Rich, assorted drug-crazed Eurotrash, and just about anybody with the money to get there. It doesn't surprise me to read this, particularly since the area also has a very large Moroccan population, and there has been considerable tension between the Muslim immmigrants and native Spaniards. As usual, the Spanish left is very pro-Islamic, but they were put in an awkward position with the publication earlier this year of a book by an Islamic cleric from Valencia, who said it was okay to hit your wife if she didn't behave (under pressure, he later modified this to say that he meant, "hit her just a little").

[ppaul]

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[dalebert]

More likely Bin Laden has cells on the west coast.

[secondamendmentkid]

Another Nostradamus quote:

In the first year of the new millenium, camel jockeys in the land of rugs who have wrought terror on the people of the new land shall see the light of a brightness like they have never seen before. They will feel a temperature of such magnitude that has not been felt in the recent half century. The resulting vapor will comfort those in the new land.