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| Spain detains eight turban recruiters | |
| 2014-06-17 | |
| [Iraq Sun] Spain's Interior Ministry said police have detained eight people suspected of forming a group that recruited jihadist militants to fight in Iraq and Syria. The ministry said the eight were arrested Monday in Madrid. A ministry statement said the Islamic cell found and dispatched recruits for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL. The government statement said the group was led by a former Guantanamo Bay inmate who was arrested in Afghanistan in 2001.
The suspect was reportedly extradited in 2005 to Spain where he was held in preventative detention for more than a year before being freed by the Spanish courts in 2006. The interior ministry was not immediately available to confirm these details. | |
| Posted by:Fred |