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| Spain busts 2 al-Qaeda recruiters |
| 2005-06-30 |
| Spanish police have arrested two more people - a Moroccan and an Algerian - charged with recruiting Islamic militants in Spain to fight in Iraq's insurgency, Spain's EFE news agency reported. Ridoune Elourma, a 29-year-old Moroccan was picked up on Tuesday in Puigcerda, a city in northeastern Spain. Algerian national Mohamed Saad, 31, was arrested in the Mediterranean city of Valencia. Police had been looking for the two men since their 'Operation Tigris' swoop led to the arrests of sixteen terror suspects across Spain on 14 June. Together with eleven of the suspects arrested in 'Operation Tigris', Elourma and Saad are believed to belong to a terror cell linked to al-Qaeda's number-one operative in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, that recruited young Islamic radicals to fight in the 'Jihad' or holy war in Iraq, where an increasingly bloody insurgency continues to rage. Five of the suspects arrested in the 14 June raids were held for alleged involvement in the March 2004 train bombings in Madrid, police said. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |