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| Al-Qaeda recruiter in UK court |
| 2005-06-03 |
| A Syrian-born man wanted in connection with last year's Madrid train bombings appeared in a British court on Friday after Spain requested his extradition. A total of 22 people, many of them Moroccan, have been jailed following a widespread investigation by Spanish police into the Madrid attacks which killed nearly 200 people. More than 50 others have been held and released although still considered suspects, prompting protests by human rights groups who say the evidence in some of the cases amounts to little more than racial profiling. Moutaz Almallah Dabas, 39, was arrested in Britain last March under a European warrant issued by Spanish authorities. Madrid accuses him of collaborating with an Islamist terrorist organisation and "enabling the provision of care for radical Islamists in order to transfer them abroad". "Mr Dabas has stated his affinity to the Jihadist thesis of Osama bin Laden," prosecution lawyer John Hardy told the court. The warrant also accuses Dabas of trying to indoctrinate others to become followers of bin Laden, al Qaeda's leader. Dabas's defence counsel said the accusations made against Dabas had yet to be proved. "In reality there is no prosecution effort in Spain," defence lawyer Mark Summers told the court. "It is not enough that -- in the traditional phrase -- Mr Dabas is wanted by the police to help them with their enquiries." The case was adjourned until June 14. Dabas, who was born in the Syrian capital Damascus but holds Spanish citizenship, spent the first minutes of the hearing reading verses from the Koran before studying a paper detailing the case against him. |
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