Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Ex-Guantanamo inmate leads Spanish Jihadist cell.

Spain Arrests Eight in Raid Against Jihadist Cell Led by Ex-Guantanamo Inmate


Spanish police arrested eight people on Monday in a raid against a jihadist cell in Madrid, AFP reports. The recruitment network was led by a former Guantanamo Bay inmate.
Police have so far launched 12 raids in the Spanish capital, detaining eight people, and the investigation remains open, Spain’s interior ministry said in a statement.
The Islamic cell found and dispatched recruits for Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants based in Syria and Iraq, the ministry said.
ISIL fighters made rapid military gains in Iraq last week, seizing the second-biggest city Mosul and coming within 80 kilometres (50 miles) of Baghdad’s city limits. Online photos, which cannot be independently confirmed, apparently show ISIL militants massacring captured Iraqi soldiers during the offensive. […]
The latest operation by Spanish security forces is the third significant raid on jihadist recruitment cells announced in as many months.

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