"Mohamed the Egyptian"
Posted on 03/18/2005 9:02:40 PM PST by NormsRevenge
MADRID, Spain (AP) - Spanish police on Friday arrested a Syrian who they believe helped recruit radical Islamists to be sent abroad and had ties with suspects charged in last year's train bombings.
Police, who gave the suspect's name as Mohannad Almallah Dabas, was arrested at his home in Madrid. The Interior Ministry said he and his brother used an apartment in Madrid to house recruits or people passing through. They were assisted by Basel Ghalyoun, a Syrian already jailed for his suspected role in the March 11, 2004 bombings that killed 191 people and wounded more than 1,500, the ministry said.
Almallah Dabas was arrested two weeks after the attack but released after questioning, although officials then gave his first name as Mohammed, the National Court said. The Interior Ministry insisted Friday his first name is Mohannad.
The ministry statement said the apartment was also used for meetings, some of which were attended by a Tunisian named Serhane Ben Abdelmajid Fakhet, one of seven key suspects in the Madrid bombings who killed themselves in a suicide blast on April 3 as police moved in to arrest them.
The Almallah brothers are linked to Egyptian Rabei Osman Ahmed, who was extradited to Spain from Italy in December and is considered a key figure in the Madrid attacks, according to the statement.
The ministry said Almallah Dabas also had dealings with Syrian-born Spaniard Imad Yarkas, who is in jail and charged with providing financing and logistics for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in New York and Washington.
Twenty-two people, most of them Moroccan, have been jailed in connection with the Madrid bombings. More than 50 other detainees have been released but are still considered suspects.
Responsibility for the attacks was claimed in videos by militants who said they acted on behalf of al-Qaida in revenge for Spain's troop presence in Iraq.
GOOD rack Spain on busting this Syria a***
Gotta put a Barf Alert on those pictures. I've no appreciation for male attractiveness, but these guys are seriously mutt meat.
I hear ya,, Evil incarnate.
Their eyes say it all.
I bet this is the guy that PBS had the special about last month!
I was looking for some pics, but no luck so far.
I'll check out their site too. Thanks!
If this is the same guy I am thinking about, they had his apartment bugged for a long time; he was a recruiter/trainer/planner.
And they played the actual tape of he and his pals downloading a video from a Islamic web site -- the first beheading -- and you could actually hear them LAUGHING at it!
Thanks. I was just there.
I remember seeing a portion of that special not too long ago too..
No pics tho.
Did we talk about that on here? I think we did.
If you have a chance, you should watch that show on PBS. It sacred the every living heck out of me.
I hear ya,, the tentacles of radical Islam are everywhere.. well , potentially everywhere a mosque is , anyway.
In other news CAIR put out a press release condemning suspicion of Muslims.
Why war is not declared on Syria, by any number of nations, I have no idea.
Then one day for Allah's gain
They bombed a station
On the plain in Spain
Now they're caught and very soon
Perhaps some day in the month of June
They'll rot in jail on their Abba Dabas honee-moon.
Ta da dee dum!
Pow!
Leni
Good job!
FYI
In looking through Frontlines site I ran across this
Son of Al Qaeda
Tues., March 22
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/khadr/
Growing up in the 1990s, Abdurahman Khadr's playmates were the children of his father's longtime friend, Osama bin Laden. How Khadr was raised to be an Al Qaeda terrorist -- and how he ultimately found himself working for the U.S. -- is the focus of FRONTLINE's "Son of Al Qaeda." Through interviews with Khadr as well as his mother and siblings, the documentary recounts his incredible journey from terrorist upbringing to CIA informant, offering a revealing glimpse inside the mindset of an Al Qaeda family.
Might be worth a look.
FYI
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