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UK imam linked to 3/11
Spanish police are investigating possible links between the group which carried out devastating bomb attacks on Madrid trains a month ago and a Muslim preacher in England, the daily El Pais newspaper said yesterday. Quoting sources close to the investigation into the bombings, the paper said that presumed terrorists who blew themselves up in a suburb of Madrid on April 3 rather than face arrest had telephoned the preacher, or imam, shortly before doing so. Investigators were not sure of the name of the preacher involved, but believed it may be a man named Ben Salawi, the paper said, whom it described as a "very radical imam." The paper said investigators believed that the presumed perpetrators of the attacks "were receiving support and orders from an Al Qaeda leader residing in England," although it was not clear whether this was the same person to whom the presumed terrorists telephoned.
Posted by: Dan Darling 2004-04-12 |
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