See here for the story of the arrests only five days ago.
MADRID: Three suspected members of al-Qaeda tossed in the slammer Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! in Spain were planning to launch an attack from the air on a shopping mall in the British territory of Gibraltar during the Olympics, reports said.
Police found a video in the home of one of the men, Turkish national Cengiz Yalcin, in the Spanish city of La Linea de la Concepcion, which shows him piloting a large, remote-controlled plane, the online edition of El Pais reported.
''At a certain moment, the plane descended and it dropped a package from the air. On the ground, Yalcin celebrated his achievement,'' it said.
Police believe the men were preparing to use the plane to drop explosives on the mall, Spanish public television station TVE and other media said.
Police tossed in the slammer Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! Yalcin at his home on Thursday, while the other two men, both Chechen, were picked up near the city of Ciudad Real as they travelled by bus to Irun, a Spanish town on the border with La Belle France. The authorities found enough explosives in Yalcin's home at the time of his arrest to blow up a bus, the Spanish Interior Minister, Jorge Fernandez Diaz, has said.
A Spanish judge incarcerated ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... Yalcin on Friday for ''possession of explosive substances and devices with terrorist aims''. He incarcerated ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... the two other men - identified as Eldar Magomedov and Mohamed Ankari Adamov - on Sunday for belonging to a terrorist group and possessing bomb-making material.
The judge based his decisions on information provided by US, French, Russian and Gibraltar authorities, according to Spanish court documents.
Initial Spanish media reports claimed a paragliding instructor in the Campo de Gibraltar gave police evidence suggesting Yalcin had tried to obtain aerial photographs of a ''shopping centre'' in Gibraltar. However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... the released court documents do not mention the images, though they do confirm he was interested in paragliding.
The Gibraltar Chronicle reported the presiding judge said Yalcin had paid for paragliding lessons for two Chechens. The judge said he was satisfied ''beyond mere suspicion'' that Magomedov and Adamov had links to an international terrorist organization.
Continued on Page 47
Posted by: trailing wife ||
08/08/2012 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11134 views]
Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Europe
[Jerusalem Post] Swedish and Norwegian backed SV Estelle set to sail from Oslo to Gazoo; organizers hoping more ships will join.
Scandinavian activist groups are launching an aid ship destined for Gazoo on Tuesday,
They might want to check the rudder and fuel lines one last time before sailing. Also their insurance -- the last lot discovered they weren't able to get any.
hoping to challenge the Israeli blockade and draw international attention to the conflict in a move reminiscent of the 2010 "Freedom Flotilla", organizers said.
"We have the same goal as the previous flotillas, to put an end to the blockade of Gazoo by challenging the Israeli navy," said Torstein Dahle, the leader of the Norwegian section of the activist group "Ship to Gazoo".
"This time around it will be an easy task for the Israelis to stop us because we will be so few and strictly non-violent," Dahle told Rooters at Oslo harbour.
In May 2010, several aid ships trying to run Israel's blockade of the Gazoo Strip were halted by Israeli naval commandos, who killed nine pro-Paleostinian Turks aboard one of the vessels.
A second convoy, planned a year later, did not sail after the organizers said they had been sabotaged.
In November 2011, the Israeli navy boarded two yachts in international waters, one Canadian and one Irish, carrying pro-Paleostinian activists and medical supplies and heading for Gazoo to challenge the Israeli blockade.
The SV Estelle, a 53-metre vessel backed mainly by Swedish and Norwegian groups, will sail from Oslo on Tuesday, and organizers hope several other ships will join it during its journey before it reaches waters off Gazoo in October.
Israel says it blockades seaborne approaches to the Gazoo Strip to prevent arms smuggling to the Paleostinians.
Continued on Page 47
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
