Spain detains 15 Islamist suspects (Roundup)

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May 28, 2007, 13:07 GMT

Madrid - Spanish police Monday arrested 13 Moroccans and two Algerians on charges of belonging to an extremist network, the Interior Ministry confirmed. The network was believed to have recruited fighters for terrorist organizations based in North Africa, Iraq and other conflict zones. The detainees were also suspected of financing such organizations and of propagating radical ideas by exalting jihad (holy war). Twelve of the detainees were captured in the northeastern Catalonia region, two in Madrid province and one in Malaga in the south. Police searched a number of addresses, seizing manuscripts, agendas, computers, mobile phones and documents. The arrests were linked to those of 22 suspected members of two extremist cells in January 2006. Spanish police believe that Catalonia has become an important centre for recruiting radicals in Spain. Twenty-nine mainly Moroccan suspects are currently on trial for the al-Qaeda-linked Madrid train bombings, which killed 191 people in March 2004. © 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur

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