Spain's leading Al-Qaeda detainee, Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, admitted Thursday to know one of the Moroccans arrested in connection with the March 11 Madrid bombings, local media reported Thursday.
| We figured as much. Yarkas was the big cheese of al-Qaeda in continental Europe pre-9/11, the only guy who was cool enough to talk one-on-one with Mohammed Atef. |
Abu Dahdah claimed to know Jamal Zougam, one of the three Moroccans arrested in connection with Madrid's deadly bombings, because he had been a client to the fruit shop and the telephone-box business owned by Zougam in Madrid's Lavapies neighborhood, the report quoted Spanish judicial sources as saying.
| Abu Dahdah, of course, is Yarkas's nom de guerre. |
Abu Dahdah also said he had never established relations with Zougam nor was familiar with his ideology.
| "No, certainly not lil old me!" |
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