[Ynet] Spanish police have locked awayDrop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
six suspected members of the 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....
terror group, four of them in Spain and one each in Britannia and Germany, Madrid's Interior Ministry said Wednesday.
The man arrested in Britannia was a 44-year-old Salafist imam who led the group and who was sought by several countries. He was detained in the city of Birmingham at Spain's request.
The ministry said investigations began in 2015 when police detected videos promoted by the imam that documented the recruitment, indoctrination and sending of a young Moslem resident in Spain to Syria.
The cell also worked to recruit new members and actively promoted ISIS armed activities.
The four arrests in Spain occurred on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca, where the cell was allegedly based.
| Update from the Daily Mail at 10:20 a.m. EDT: |
- The imam accused of helping to recruit ISIS fighters is named as Tarik Chadlioui, 43, AKA Tarik Ibn Ali
- Muslim preacher was arrested at his house in the Sparkhill area of Birmingham
- Father-of-eight accused of producing propaganda material on behalf of of ISIS
- He moved with his family to the UK from Belgium in 2015
- He had preached hate-filled sermons at the Paris mosque attended by Bataclan bomber Omar Mostefai