| A Tunisian man wanted as a ringleader in the Madrid train bombings began agitating for "jihad" (holy war) in Madrid in mid-2003 if not earlier, according to arrest warrants released on Thursday. The Tunisian, Serhane ben Abdelmajid Farkhet, 35, was identified as the "personal leader and coordinator" of the group implicated in the March 11 attack, which killed 191 people three days before Spain's general election, the warrants said. Fakhet "not only was the energising force for the awareness campaign for the jihad ... but also with specific intent (since the middle of 2003 at least) for the preparation of a violent act in Spain, specifically in the Madrid area," the warrants said. |