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| Al-Qaeda Suspects Targeted Gibraltar | |
| 2012-08-08 | |
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! in Spain were planning to launch an attack from the air on a shopping mall in the British territory of Gibraltar during the Olympics, reports said. Police found a video in the home of one of the men, Turkish national Cengiz Yalcin, in the Spanish city of La Linea de la Concepcion, which shows him piloting a large, remote-controlled plane, the online edition of El Pais reported. ''At a certain moment, the plane descended and it dropped a package from the air. On the ground, Yalcin celebrated his achievement,'' it said. Police believe the men were preparing to use the plane to drop explosives on the mall, Spanish public television station TVE and other media said. Police tossed in the slammer Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! Yalcin at his home on Thursday, while the other two men, both Chechen, were picked up near the city of Ciudad Real as they travelled by bus to Irun, a Spanish town on the border with La Belle France. The authorities found enough explosives in Yalcin's home at the time of his arrest to blow up a bus, the Spanish Interior Minister, Jorge Fernandez Diaz, has said. A Spanish judge incarcerated ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... Yalcin on Friday for ''possession of explosive substances and devices with terrorist aims''. He incarcerated ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... the two other men - identified as Eldar Magomedov and Mohamed Ankari Adamov - on Sunday for belonging to a terrorist group and possessing bomb-making material. The judge based his decisions on information provided by US, French, Russian and Gibraltar authorities, according to Spanish court documents. Initial Spanish media reports claimed a paragliding instructor in the Campo de Gibraltar gave police evidence suggesting Yalcin had tried to obtain aerial photographs of a ''shopping centre'' in Gibraltar. However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... the released court documents do not mention the images, though they do confirm he was interested in paragliding. The Gibraltar Chronicle reported the presiding judge said Yalcin had paid for paragliding lessons for two Chechens. The judge said he was satisfied ''beyond mere suspicion'' that Magomedov and Adamov had links to an international terrorist organization. | |
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