Spanish police have arrested seven men suspected of having links to Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT)The six Pakistanis and a Nigerian man are suspected of sending forged documents and money to a group with ties to al-Qaeda. Three others - a Thai national and two Pakistanis - were held in Thailand as part of the same operation. The suspects allegedly were part of a group in Thailand linked to LeT.
Spain's Interior Ministry said that anti-terrorist officers detained the suspects in raids in and around Barcelona late on Tuesday and early on Wednesday. The arrests were part of an international operation, and that the head of the organisation - a Pakistani living in Thailand - had been detained.
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It added that the operation "neutralises an important cell providing passports to al-Qaeda".