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  • Suspected al-Qaeda chief arrested in Brussels raid (A Victory Against Terror)

    02/03/2005 2:42:17 PM PST · by Cornpone · 24 replies · 901+ views
    expatica.com ^ | 2 Feb 2005 | expatica.com
    BRUSSELS – A Moroccan man suspected of helping to mastermind last year's deadly train bombings in Madrid has been arrested in Brussels. Twenty-eight-year-old Youssef Belhadj was arrested in Molenbeek on Tuesday after the Spanish police issued an international arrest warrant for him. He was due to appear in court in Brussels on Wednesday. Spanish investigators think Belhadj could be Abu Dujanah, the man who appeared on a video tape a few days after the Madrid massacre, saying he was al-Qaeda’s spokesman in Europe. In the recording, he stated al-Qaeda was responsible for the bombing of the 11 commuter trains –...
  • Arrests keep young would-be French militants from Iraqi battlefields

    02/03/2005 9:46:31 AM PST · by knighthawk · 12 replies · 381+ views
    AP Wire | February 03 2005 | Associated Press
    Thamer and Cherif, two recently arrested 22-year-old French Muslims, won't be going to Iraq to fight American troops or to die as martyrs. Their fast track to the rebel insurgency dried up days before they were to leave. The two were arrested last week by counter-intelligence agents who dismantled their Iraq connection. The network had already funneled at least seven people to Iraq - including three French men who died there, investigators have said. Thamer Bouchnak was arrested Jan. 24 at Paris' Orly airport on his return from a pilgrimage to Mecca. Cherif Kouachi was arrested in a roundup of...