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the suspected leader of a cell linked to Al-Qaeda, which sent Death Eaters to Syria to carry out suicide kabooms, the government said.
Police seized Yassin Ahmed Laarbi in the Spanish territory of Ceuta, which borders Morocco, on terrorism charges, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
Laarbi, a Spanish national also known as Pistu, is accused of leading a group that sent about 50 Islamist Death Eaters to Syria, some of whom carried out suicide kabooms.
"He is suspected of having been the top leader of an active network that recruited and radicalised mujahedeen and deaders and sent them to terrorist groups in Syria," the statement said.
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eight other members of the cell in Ceuta in June but did not capture Laarbi, who wasn't at home when officers came for him during the raids.
The network, operating in Ceuta and the neighbouring Moroccan town of Fnideq, was suspected of sending dozens of Islamist krazed killers, including minors, to join "Al-Qaeda-linked terrorist groups operating in Syria," the ministry said at the time.
It said that some of those sent by the group carried out suicide attacks.
Laarbi himself "was a candidate to join terrorist groups in Syria," Monday's statement added.