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Islamist groups active in Spain: report by Sunday 16 July 2006 12:17 PM GMT Police have arrested many suspected extremists in recent months Police believe that Islamist extremist groups are still active in Spain despite a series of arrests following the 2003 Madrid bombings, a Spanish newspaper has reported. Spain's leading paper, El Pais, reported on Sunday that a police report released in May said that recruiters for these groups have recently become more active. The recruiters operate in mosques and aim to radicalise young Muslim immigrants, said El Pais. Some of these mosques are clandestine and operate in parking lots or business premises. The report also said that Spanish anti-terrorist units have uncovered the presence in Spain of the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group, Algeria's Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat and Takfir Wal Hijra. All three organizations, linked to al-Qaeda, have recruited Muslim immigrants, mainly Moroccans, it said. Police also are keeping an eye on Pakistani extremists and supporters of Lebanon's Hezbollah group, El Pais said. Suspects arrested In the first four months of 2006, Spanish police arrested 31 suspected extremists in six operations, El Pais reported. However, since the March 11, 2004 bombings on the Madrid commuter rail network that killed 191 people and wounded more than 1,800, police have netted 250 people, of which more than 100 are currently in jail. A judge overseeing the investigation has said the Madrid cell that carried out the bombings was apparently inspired by al-Qaeda, but had no direct links to it. Juan del Olmo, the national court's judge, concluded the probe in late June, setting the stage for a trial. AP By [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
