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| 3 More Suspects Arrested in Spain Bombings |
| 2004-04-16 |
| Spanish police arrested a Saudi citizen, an Egyptian and a Moroccan over possible links to suspects in the March 11 rail bombings, the country's interior minister said Friday. The three were arrested in Madrid on Thursday and Friday. They were being held in solitary confinement on the capital's outskirts and will probably be brought to court in the next few days, a National Court official said. "The Moroccan was arrested because he had disappeared since March 11, the day of the attacks," Interior Minister Angel Acebes told a news conference. "He was known to have ties with one of those arrested for carrying out the bombings. "We'll see to what degree he knew the detained and what his possible role," the minister added. Acebes said the Saudi and Egyptian were arrested for similar reasons. "Police knew they had links with some of those believed responsible for the attacks," he said. "The arrests were made precisely to investigate what type of relation and what hypothetical role they had, or in what way they collaborated." Their names were not immediately available. Acebes said he expected more arrests of people who may have had a role in the attacks, links with those responsible or ties with radical Islam. Earlier, the investigative magistrate handling the case, Judge Juan del Olmo, freed six suspects arrested over the past week. The judge ruled there was insufficient evidence to link them to the attacks, which killed 191 people and injured 1,800 others. |
| Posted by:Fred |