Posted on 12/18/2004 5:53:11 PM PST by knighthawk
MADRID, Spain - Spanish police arrested four Moroccans on the Canary Island of Lanzarote on suspicion of being members of the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group. One is believed to have had a possible role in the Madrid train bombings, the Interior Ministry said.
The four were suspected of setting up a logistical base on the island following recent arrests of members of the group in France and Belgium, the Interior Ministry said on Friday.
The Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group is part of the radical Salafia Jihadia movement and has close links to al-Qaida, the ministry said. It is believed to have carried out the 2003 attacks in Casablanca, Morocco, in which a dozen suicide bombers killed 32 people.
The four suspects were identified as Hassan al Haski, 41, Ali Fahimi, 31, Abdallah Mourib, 36 and Brahim Atia El Hammouchi, 40.
The ministry said al Haski was wanted in connection with the Madrid bombings. It said he shared an apartment with Mourib.
The statement said the two may have had trained together at extremist-run camps.
Dozens of suspected Islamist terrorists have been arrested in Spain since the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States in 2001, and more recently since the March 11 bombings in Madrid. The train bombings, blamed on Islamic radicals with links to al-Qaida, killed 191 people.
Lanzarote is one of Spain's seven Canary Islands located off Morocco's northwestern coast.
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A small group of terrorists responsible for the capitulation of an entire nation. Certainly reason enough to drain all information out of them and then kill them. Or will the Spaniards fear four common criminals?
Islamists arrested on Spanish island planned attacks on stations, stadiums
Excerpt from report by Spanish national radio on 18 December
The four Islamists arrested yesterday in the island of Lanzarote in the Canaries will be moved to Madrid in the next few hours. [passage omitted] The detainees apparently form a logistical base of the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group in the Canary Islands and they were fleeing police pressure in France and Belgium. [passage omitted]
As regards the papers seized from the four people arrested in Lanzarote, the investigators have already found sufficient evidence to think that they aimed to attack railway stations, football stadiums and buildings housing large numbers of people.
Source: RNE Radio 1, Madrid, in Spanish 1000 gmt 18 Dec 04
http://www.monitor.bbc.co.uk/nfnews.shtml#second
These four idiots were probably trying to make it to La Palma so they could jump up and down on the western flank of the Cumbre Vieja volcano and make it collapse.
Jihad and mega-tsunamis,what will they think of next?
SARCASM.
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