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Spanish Police Arrest Muslim Cell -- The police in the Spanish Basque region says it has rolled up a radical Muslim cell. The suspects were arrested in the northern city of Vitoria. They are thought to have distributed CDs and MP3 files in which they call for a holy war. The Spanish Minister of Interior Affairs, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, said the arrests were important because these kind of suspects can turn from shouting about violence to committing violence very quickly. |
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2/14/2008 |
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Sharia |
Iran Envoy Defends Amputation -- Iran's ambassador to Spain has compared chopping off the hands of thieves to a "surgeon amputating a limb to prevent the spread of gangrene." In a defence of Iran's tough implementation of Islamic law, Seyed Davoud Salehi called for "the traditions, religion and economic development" of Iran to be taken into account by those monitoring human rights in the country. He also argued that the death penalty was necessary "to preserve the health of society as a whole".
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2/9/2008 |
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Barcelona |
Spain, France At Odds Over Terror Probe -- The bombings would have been horrific and chillingly similar to the last one that Islamic terrorists inflicted on Spain: multiple backpack explosives detonated by suicide attackers on Barcelona's tourist-choked subway, just weeks before a general election. But the alleged plot by nine Pakistanis and an Indian national never took place, and now the way it was thwarted is causing a controversy — with France reportedly angry over the outing of one of its secret agents. |
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2/8/2008 |
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Urgent Manhunt Across Europe For Terror Plotters -- ABC News has learned that the manhunt that began in Spain for suspected terror cell members has now extended to France and other European Union countries. The attorney general in Spain said today that there are three cell members they are urgently searching for and that the missing members could be suicidal terrorists with a mission to attack somewhere outside of Spain. |
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1/25/2008 |
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Barcelona |
Jihadists Arrested With Bombmaking Materials In Barcelona Mosque -- Ten men arrested in Barcelona on Saturday on suspicion of planning a suicide attack on the city’s public transportation system had intended to carry out the bombing last weekend, a Spanish judge said Wednesday in court documents ordering the men to remain in jail. The detainees, most of them Pakistanis, were part of an “organized group” that was planning to attack Jan. 18 through Jan. 20.
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1/24/2008 |
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Islamists |
Spanish Police Arrest 14 In Anti-Terror Raids -- Spanish police have smashed a suspected Islamist terror cell, arresting 14 people and recovering bomb-making equipment in overnight raids in Barcelona. Those arrested included 12 Pakistanis and two Indians. |
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1/19/2008 |
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Dhimmi |
Accused Madrid Bomb Mastermind Acquitted -- One of the accused masterminds of the 2004 Madrid terror bombings was acquitted of all charges Wednesday by a Spanish court in the culmination to a politically divisive trial over Europe's worst Islamic militant terror attack. Rabei Osman, a 35-year-old Egyptian, allegedly bragged during a wiretapped phone conversation that the attacks, which killed 191 people and wounded more than 1,800, were his idea.
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10/31/2007 |
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Islamofascism |
Police Seize "World Jihad" Team -- Six suspected Islamic militants were Wednesday arrested in northern Spain on suspicion of using the Internet to recruit for and plot a 'world jihad,' a Ministry of Interior statement said. |
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10/24/2007 |
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Al-Qaeda |
22 Charged Over 'Al Qaeda Network' -- A Spanish judge indicted 22 suspected Islamic terrorists Tuesday, charging them with recruiting and sending fighters to Iraq, including one who killed Italian troops there in a suicide attack in 2003. |
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10/23/2007 |
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Dhimmi |
Girl, 7, Who Wears Veil, Allowed Back to School -- A seven-year-old Moroccan girl living in Spain went back to school Tuesday after the Catalan regional government allowed her to do so wearing the Muslim headscarf. |
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10/4/2007 |
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Al-Qaeda |
Spain Swoops on 2 Terror Suspects -- Spanish police have arrested two Syrian-born men in Madrid for collaboration with an Islamic terrorist group, including one who was acquitted two years ago at a major trial of al Qaeda suspects in Spain, the country's Interior Ministry says. The man who is now in custody a second time was identified as Bassam Dalati Satut, 48. Satut was acquitted in 2005 of belonging to a terrorist group at a trial in which 18 of the 24 defendants were convicted of Islamic terrorist activities, court records show. |
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7/25/2007 |
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Al-Qaeda |
Eighth Spaniard Dies of Injuries, Marib Investigation Continues -- A Spanish woman injured in the July 2 terrorist bombing in Marib has died from injuries suffered, said doctors. Maria Vitorica, 50, died late Saturday, two days after she was declared brain dead, said Dr. Ahmed al-Ansi, director general of al-Thawra Hospital in Sana’a. Her death brings the total of Spanish victims to eight. Two Yemeni men were also killed in the attack. |
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7/18/2007 |
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Al-Qaeda |
Spain Arrests Three Al Qaeda Suspects -- Spanish police on Tuesday arrested three Moroccans suspected of having links to al Qaeda and recruiting people to send to training camps in Africa. |
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6/26/2007 |
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Madrid Train Bombing |
Al-Qaeda Behind Madrid Bombs: prosecutor -- |
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6/12/2007 |
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FARC Plot |
Three Arrested in Arms Plot to Kill Americans -- Syrian national Monzer Al Kassar, 61, of Marbella, Spain, along with suspects Tareq Mousa Al Ghazi, 60, of Lebanon, and Luis Felipe Moreno Godoy, 58, also of Marbella, were arrested as they prepared to finalize a multimillion-dollar deal with the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, to pay for the weapons. |
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6/9/2007 |
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Al-Qaeda |
Three Pakistanis Sentenced for Financing al-Qaeda in Spain -- Spain's National Court on Tuesday acquitted 11 Pakistanis of planning attacks against high-rise buildings and a shopping centre in Barcelona. Three of the accused were, however, sentenced to 5.5 years in prison each for collaborating with a terrorist group, judicial sources said. |
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5/30/2007 |
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Islamofascism |
Spanish police arrest Islamist Jihad suspects -- Spanish police arrested 16 suspected Islamist militants in a series of nationwide anti-terror raids on Monday, the interior ministry said, adding they were suspected of membership of a terrorist organisation. Officers arrested 13 people, including an imam, in the north-eastern Catalonia region, two near Madrid and one at Malaga. |
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5/29/2007 |
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Al-Qaeda |
Spain arrests 15 over recruiting Islamist fighters -- Spanish police said on Monday they had arrested 15 people suspected of recruiting Islamic fighters for Iraq and North Africa. |
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5/28/2007 |
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Al-Qaeda |
Spain Arrests 16 North Africans Suspected of Recruiting Fighters for Iraq, Other Countries -- Fourteen of the 16 arrested were Moroccan and two were from Algeria. Thirteen of the suspects were arrested in Barcelona and two other towns in the northeastern region of Catalonia. Two suspects were arrested in the central town of Aranjuez, and one in the southern city of Malaga, the Interior Ministry said. |
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5/28/2007 |
