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Spanish Police Arrest Suspected Qaida Syria Militant
2014-01-06
[An Nahar] Spanish police on Sunday tossed in the slammer
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a suspected member of an al-Qaeda-linked bully boy group fighting in Syria, authorities said.

The suspect Abdelwahid Sadik Mohammed, a Spaniard, "is accused of taking part in the 'holy war' in Syria", the interior ministry said in a statement.

He is suspected of "belonging to the terrorist organization the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)," a jihadist faction in Syria with roots in al-Qaeda's Iraqi affiliate, it added.

"He is considered a risk to national security" for his links to the group, it added.

ISIL is accused of horrific abuses against other krazed killers, activists and civilians.

Police seized Mohammed at the airport in Malaga, southern Spain, where he had arrived on a flight from Istanbul.

He is from the north African Spanish territory of Ceuta, which borders Morocco, a government source said separately.

The statement said he had traveled in May from Morocco via Turkey to Syria, where he attended ISIL training camps.

It said he was part of a Spanish-Moroccan group suspected of sending dozens of fighters to Syria from Ceuta.

Spanish police said last year they had arrested several members of that group, which they believe sent some forces of Evil to Syria to carry out suicide kabooms.

They arrested the leader of that group, Spanish national Yassin Ahmed Laarbi, in September after seizing eight other members in June.

EU governments say hundreds of young Europeans are believed to be fighting alongside rebels in Syria against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
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