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| Seven people suspected of links with al-Qaeda arrested in Spain |
| 2010-12-02 |
| [Ennahar] Six Paks and one Nigerian were jugged Tuesday in Barcelona by the Spanish police, who suspected them of providing false passports to Islamic organizations linked to Al Qaeda, including the group accused of bombings in Bombay in 2008. The seven men are suspected of having "stolen identity papers and have sent them to Thailand where they were falsified and presented" to Islamist bad boy groups, said Wednesday the Interior Ministry in a statement. Three other suspects, two Paks and a Thai were jugged in Thailand in an operation carried out as part of international police cooperation, the statement added. "In total, seven people were jugged in Barcelona (six Paks and a Nigerian), all belonging to a cell that provided documents to organizations linked to al-Qaeda," the ministry said. The false documents included for the Pak Islamist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, accused by the United States and India of having carried out the bombings in Mumbai, the commercial capital of India, in November 2008 (166 dead). |
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