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14 Islamist terrorist suspects detained in Spain
Jan 19, 2008, 17:20 GMT
Madrid - Fourteen suspected Islamist terrorists from the Indian sub-continent were arrested by Spanish police in apartments in Barcelona, Spain's Interior Ministry reported Saturday.
Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said 12 of those held were Pakistani nationals and two were Indians. The group had been 'very well organised' and had already assembled bomb-making material.
Small quantities of explosives and four timers were found during searches of five apartments. However, there was no indication of any imminent attack having been planned.
Police action had been prompted by warnings from other European intelligence services, he said.
Spanish radio reports said there was speculation the 14 had links to a terrorist cells broken up by police several years ago, and which had connections with the al-Qaeda organisation of Osama bin Laden.
Some 400 terror suspects have been arrested since the devastating attacks on Madrid suburban trains of 11 March 2004 in which 191 people were killed and over 1,800 wounded.
Twenty-one accused of those attacks were sentenced last October to between three and 42,919 years' imprisonment, while seven were acquitted.
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Execute them!Jan 20th, 2008 - 05:59:22
Than bury their bodies in a pile of pigparts with the koran.
Finally, just deport every worthless muslim from Europe.
That is how you deal with cancer....cut it out from the patient, or it keeps trying to kill you.
Europe better learn quickly.
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