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In a story unlikely to receive attention from the mainstream media in the United States, a former Guantanamo Bay captive has been arrested in Spain for operating what authorities there say is a sophisticated jihadist recruitment network. Spanish media is reporting that the one-time Gitmo prisoner is a 46-year-old Moroccan named Lahcen Ikassrien, who heads an Islamic cell that recruits fighters for the Syrian and Iraqi-based terror group known as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Ikassrien and seven others were arrested in Madrid recently as part of a dozen raids on terrorism cells in the Spanish capital,...

MADRID, Spain (AP) - The United States on Monday extradited a Moroccan held at Guantanamo Bay who was indicted in Spain for his alleged links to an al-Qaida cell, the Interior Ministry said. Lahcen Ikassrien was accompanied by Interpol agents as he arrived in Madrid. Also known as Chej Hasan, Ikassrien was one of four people held in the U.S. detention center for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, whose extradition was sought in December, 2003, by Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon. Another of the four, Spaniard Hamed Abderrahman Ahmad, was handed over in July 2004 but later freed on bail....