2011-09-30 Espanja:Poliisi pidatti viisi - epaillaan terrorismin rahoituksesta

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Police in Spain arrest 5 suspected of financing terrorists
Madrid/Spain (CNN) -- Civil guards arrested five Algerian men early Tuesday in northern Spain on suspicion of providing logistical and financial support for Islamic terrorist activities, Spain's interior ministry said.

The suspects, aged 36 to 49,allegedly supported "terrorist groups that operate in the Algerian area of the Maghreb, specifically for al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb," a ministry statement said.

They also had suspected links to Islamic militants in Italy, France and Switzerland.

Spanish authorities has said repeatedly in the past few years that the group known as al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb is of key concern, because of its operational base in northern Africa, just across the Mediterranean Sea from Spain and  southern Europe.

Since the Madrid train bombings of 2004 that killed 191 and wounded 1,800 others, Spanish police have arrested more than 400 hundred suspected al Qaeda militants or collaborators, the Interior Ministry website says. Most have been of  North African or Middle Eastern origin,with a few from Latin America.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/09/27/world/europe/spain-terror-arrests