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| Spain Arrests Man Accused of Recruiting Women for IS | |
| 2015-07-23 | |
[AnNahar] Police in Spain's north African territory of Melilla locked awayMaw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! a man suspected of recruiting women for the armed jihadist group Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... , the government said Wednesday. Spanish police working with Moroccan security services seized the man overnight as part of a major investigation into gangs suspected of recruiting women and minors to send them to Syria and Iraq. They arrested a 29-year-old man from Melilla, a small fenced-off city on the tip of northern Morocco, the interior ministry said in a statement. It said he possessed "multimedia files of a jihadist nature". "Some of his propaganda and indoctrination material was aimed specially at radicalizing women." It said officers also seized recordings of "radical sermons" in favor of the IS group. The suspect is accused of sharing the material with his son, a minor, "to familiarize him with jihadist tactics".
They have Europe's only land borders with Africa, posing a security concern to Spanish authorities. Spain has been cracking down on suspected jihadists over the past year, arresting scores of people, mostly in Melilla, Ceuta and the northeastern mainland region of Catalonia. The government says at least 116 Spaniards have left to join jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq, according to a figure dating to July 6. | |
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