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Zanzibar, Tanzania (CNN) -- A Catholic priest was attacked with acid on the east African island of Zanzibar in the third such unprovoked assault in two months, and remained hospitalized Saturday, the cleric told CNN. The Rev. Joseph Anselmo Mwagambwa said he was attacked Friday afternoon while coming out of an internet cafe in Mlandenge, a community in the city of Zanzibar.

MADRID, February 25 (AFP) - A suspected Islamic extremist believed linked to groups that planned attacks on targets in Madrid was found dead in his prison cell in the northern Spanish city of Zaragossa after apparently hanging himself, prison sources said. They said Mustafa Zanibar, whose nationality was not revealed, was found by prison staff after apparently hanging himself with his belt. Last October top Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon ordered the arrest of about 30 people suspected of belonging to a radical Islamic group that planned to attack several buildings in the Spanish capital, including the main courthouse and Real...

MADRID (Reuters) - A Moroccan suspected of plotting to blow up Spain's High Court has been found hanged in his prison cell, the prison service says. Mustafa Zanibar, 32, was already serving a 29-year prison term for murder when Judge Baltasar Garzon accused him of forming part of a militant Islamist group planning to blow up high-profile buildings in Madrid including Real Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu soccer stadium. The "Martyrs for Morocco" plot to blow up the High Court with a truck bomb was discovered late last year and several arrests followed, but some of the suspects were already in jail...

A SUSPECTED Islamic extremist believed linked to groups that planned attacks on targets in Madrid was found dead today in his prison cell in the northern Spanish city of Zaragossa, prison sources said. They said Mustafa Zanibar, whose nationality was not revealed, was found by prison staff after apparently hanging himself with his belt. Last October top Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon ordered the arrest of about 30 people suspected of belonging to a radical Islamic group that planned to attack several buildings in the Spanish capital, including the main courthouse and Real Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu football stadium.