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| Three Arrests In Northeast Spain |
| 2007-07-03 |
| (AKI) - Spanish anti-terror police on Monday in the northeastern city of Barcelona arrested three Moroccan Islamist suspects allegedly belonging to a cell aiming to recruit, proselytise, and radicalise Muslims. "The cell's objective was to attend training camps in Africa's Sahel region," police said in a statement. The three men arrested are Mohammed Laksir, 23, Moulay Lahoucine Miftah Idrissi, 27, and Mohammed Akazim, 32. Laksir and Idrissi have links with al-Qaeda, according to investigators. Their arrests were carried out in cooperation with Moroccan police after the Moroccan authorities issued arrest warrants in 2005 as part of a police probe of an alleged Salafite linked terror cell with operatives in Spain. Idrissi is the brother of Mohammed Idrissi, who has been in custody in Spain since 2005 in connection with a police investigation of alleged jihadi recruitment. |
| Posted by:Fred |