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| 3 GSPC financiers charged |
| 2005-12-14 |
| A Spanish judge filed charges against three men suspected of financing and providing logistical support for an Algerian Islamic extremist group with suspected links to al-Qaida, court officials said Tuesday. The three Algerians, among seven people arrested last week in Spain's Costa del Sol region, were charged with collaborating with an armed group and ordered them jailed, the court said. An Algerian woman was released without charge. The three other suspects an ethnic Albanian from Kosovo, an Algerian man and a Spanish woman are still being questioned, officials said. Authorities believe the suspects aided an Algerian-based Islamic extremist organization, the Salafist Group for Call and Combat, which has declared allegiance to al-Qaida. The insurgent group has battled Algeria's government since 1992, when the military canceled legislative elections that religious parties appeared set to win. On Nov. 23, Spanish police arrested 11 Algerians suspected of providing financing and logistical support to the same group. A judge later charged four of them with belonging to a terror cell but released the other seven. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |