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| Jordan extradicts al-Qaeda suspects to Spain |
| 2004-02-04 |
| Jordan extradited to Spain on Tuesday a man sought by a Spanish judge on charges of belonging to al Qaeda, judicial sources said. The man, named in court documents as Abdulla Khayata Kattan, was brought to Spain and appeared briefly before a judge who ordered him held temporarily. He is due to be questioned by High Court Judge Baltasar Garzon later this week. Kattan was one of 35 men, including al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, charged by Garzon last September. Some of the 35 were charged in connection with the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. Kattan was accused only of al Qaeda membership. Court documents issued last September said Kattan went by the alias Abu Ibrahim and was a native of Syria. Garzon has said there is evidence the September 11 plot was partly hatched in Spain. That would be Abu Dahdah and friends. They served as the main link between the Hamburg cell and al-Qaeda military commander Mohammed Atef. The most interesting thing is that Dahdah’s deputy Yousef Galan (who, among other things, once served as an election monitor for the ETA’s political wing) was invited to parties at the Iraqi embassy in Madrid - under his al-Qaeda nom de guerre. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |