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Spain facing 'significant' risk of new attack: Interior minister
Spain's Interior minister said the country faces a "significant" risk of new terrorist attacks as it marks the one-year anniversary this week of the Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people. "We are confronted with a significant level of risk of new attacks, more than in other countries with our geography and politics," the minister, Jose Antonio Alonso, said in an interview with the Catalan newspaper La Vanguardia. Alonso also addressed the status of the inquiry into the attacks last 11 March for which a group allied with the al-Qaeda network has claimed responsibility. "The responsibility for the attacks centres clearly on a group linked to the global Al-Qaeda network," he said. "The attacks were carried out with money, means and equipment gathered in Spain." In total, 74 suspects, most of them Moroccans residing in Spain, have been identified by Spanish authorities for their suspected roles in the attacks and 22 have been placed in preventive detention. Posted by: Seafarious 2005-03-08 |
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