France And Spain Breaking Up Iraq Recruiting Networks
Iraq terror victims
International Herald Tribune:
France makes seventh arrest in network recruiting Iraq Jihadis
French authorities arrested a seventh suspect Wednesday in a probe into an alleged network recruiting Islamic fighters to send to Iraq, officials said.
The 35-year-old Frenchman of African origin was arrested at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport, police said.
He lives in Toulouse in southwest France, where most of the six other suspects were arrested Tuesday. The men are all linked to a group arrested in February that allegedly worked with an al-Qaida cell in Saudi Arabia, police and judicial officials said.
An anti-terrorism unit made five of the arrests in the Toulouse region and one in the rural Lot region, officials said. All of the officials declined to be cited by name, saying they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
The men were aged 25 to 45 and were close to six people arrested in February, two of whom were arrested in Syria and expelled to France, the officials said. They have all since been placed under investigation in the case.
A probe was opened in February into a network recruiting fighters to be sent to Iraq. According to a scenario described by the prosecutor’s office at the time, the recruits were initially sent to Egypt to learn Arabic and teachings of Salafists “in the most radical schools.” Via a cell implanted in Saudi Arabia and linked to al-Qaida, the recruits then were put in touch with a network in Syria that took them to Iraq “to commit terrorist acts, notably suicide attacks.”
Belgian investigators are working with the French on the case, the judicial officials said, without elaborating.
Spain arrests six for recruiting Iraq terrorists
MADRID, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Spanish police have arrested six people linked to an Islamist militant cell that recruited guerrillas through the Internet to fight in Iraq, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday.
Police are searching six homes and a butcher’s shop operated by members of the cell and have taken away documents and computers for examination, the Ministry said in a statement.
The arrests, in the northern province of Burgos, came a week before the verdict is due to be announced in the trial of 28 men accused of killing 191 people in train bomb attacks in Madrid in March 2004.
The cell was led by an Algerian and a Moroccan, the Ministry said. Police carried out the investigation with the help of intelligence from other countries including Sweden, the United States and Denmark.
Since the Madrid train bombings, Spanish security forces have regularly arrested Islamist militants suspected of plotting attacks in Spain or abroad.
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No one expects the Spainish Inquisition.
October 26th, 2007 at 2:18 amNOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise…surprise and fear…fear and surprise…. Our two weapons are fear and surprise…and ruthless efficiency….
This is good news, but police arrests are what was tried for over 2 decades, we must still crush the desire and belief of the ‘radical’ muslims that the world should become solely islamic. This is a war, and the police work is peripheral.
October 26th, 2007 at 4:52 am..Cardinal Biggles!!..long time since that one…
It’s heartening to see the euro’s doing SOMETHING!. Is it me our do the Frenchies seem to have grown a set since Sarkozy was elected?
October 26th, 2007 at 8:19 amit’s heartening to see you just remarked that we DO something against terrorism, more than 20 years ago though :
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/14/america/NA-GEN-US-Europe-Terrorism-Threat.php
Sarkozy didn’t make it though, just followed it
October 26th, 2007 at 8:39 amJust don’t put me in the comfy-chair…
This will make little difference…France has larger problems with the ‘religion of peace’.
October 26th, 2007 at 9:12 amwe might have “larger problems with the religion of peace”, because of proximity of mediterranea ; but apparently we handle better the war on terrorism than you ever can do : we have the “faculty of understanding” how their brains work
October 26th, 2007 at 9:38 amDon’t know about that Frenchie. We’ll see whose solution has actually useful long term effects.
October 26th, 2007 at 10:36 amRanger, we need both, we’ll do the “brain” work, you’ll do the “hand” work
October 26th, 2007 at 10:52 am@Franchie
October 26th, 2007 at 12:21 pmHAHAHA…HAHAHAHAHA…HAHAHAHA
I know how your brain works…like a toilet! Same with your politik!
polpol, it’s funny your pseudo is apparented to Anoptichthys jordani ; that’ a trouble though, because I didn’t know that the jordani used to make blow job, ah, yes, they blow themselves up !
October 26th, 2007 at 12:37 pmWrong fish, Franchie, and frankly, I’m not that limber
However, did you know that the French Poodle is prone to eating it’s own shit? With the long dorsal vertebrea they can enjoy a hot meal at its source! How’s that for French enginuity? Are you ready for desert? 
October 26th, 2007 at 1:08 pm@Franchie
“we have the “faculty of understanding” how their brains work”
..and we have the “faculty of understanding” on how to make their brains stop working
October 26th, 2007 at 1:10 pmJim
October 26th, 2007 at 1:52 pm“Ranger, we need both, we’ll do the “brain” work, you’ll do the “hand” work
:beer:”
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