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Spain holds Egyptian, Spaniard with suspected Islamic State links
2017-04-27
[AlAhram] Spanish authorities said Wednesday that they had jugged
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
an Egyptian suspected of facilitating the return of Islamist turbans from Iraq and Syria and a Spaniard who allegedly recruited people for the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group.

The arrests in the southeastern city of Teulada and the enclave of Ceuta in northern Morocco came a day after Spanish police detained four men with alleged links to people involved in the Brussels airport and metro attacks last year.

The 46-year-old Egyptian man arrested in Teulada is suspected of having "facilitated the return of holy warriors belonging to ISIS (IS) who had decided to return from Syria and Iraq," the interior ministry said in a statement.

He is suspected of providing them with a place to stay and helping with administrative procedures.

He also distributed "documents justifying attacks committed by ISIS" among the Moslem community in his area and on social media networks, the statement said.

Separately, the police said they had arrested a 29-year-old Spaniard in the poor district of El Principe in Ceuta.

Police described him as "a key element in ISIS's recruitment and indoctrination machine."

They said "he recruited vulnerable young people to progressively radicalise them", and was suspected of wanting to go to conflict zones himself.

His wife had previously been detained on suspicion of similar propaganda and recruitment activities.

According to the interior ministry, 69 suspected jihadists were arrested in 2016 and another 29 have been held so far this year.

But Spain has seen far fewer citizens travelling abroad to join the ranks of IS than other European countries.

According to the Real Instituto Elcano, a prominent Spanish think tank, about 160 Spain-based "fighters" have left the country for conflict zones, compared with more than a thousand in neighbouring La Belle France.
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#3  Juan Sánchez Villa-Lobos Ramírez?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-04-27 22:21  

#2  Inigo Montoya
Posted by: Pappy   2017-04-27 15:44  

#1  29-year-old Spaniard

Let me guess, Ricardo de la Puta?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-04-27 07:53  

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