[nasional_list] [ppiindia] Spain arrests suspected Iraqi aide
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Spain arrests suspected Iraqi aide
By Renwick McLean International Herald Tribune
THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2006
MADRID The Interior Ministry announced Thursday that the police had
arrested the suspected ringleader of a group accused of running a recruiting
network in Spain for the Iraq insurgency.
The arrest of Omar Nakhcha, which followed the arrests of 20 of his
suspected subordinates Tuesday, provides further evidence that Islamic radicals
have established elaborate networks in Spain, most likely lured by the
country's growing population of Muslim immigrants and its proximity to North
Africa.
The officials said Nakhcha, a 23-year-old Moroccan, has ties to at least
one of the two other groups of people arrested in Spain over the past seven
months on charges of sending recruits to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al
Qaeda in Mesopotamia, and to other militant leaders in Iraq.
Officials also said Nakhcha helped some of the men who carried out the
Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people in 2004 and are widely believed
have been the work of Islamic radicals. He appears to have helped three
fugitives - Moroccans identified as Mohamed Afalah, Mohamed Belhadj and Daouh
Ouhnane - to travel from Belgium, where they had fled after the attacks, to
Syria and then to Iraq, according to an Interior Ministry statement.
The statement, released Thursday, said Nakhcha and his group falsified
documents and, perhaps most worrisome for local security forces, helped
integrate veterans of the Iraqi conflict back into Spanish society, part of an
effort to spread terrorism to other countries, officials said.
Spanish critics of the war in Iraq have long said that it would produce
large numbers of radicalized Islamic militants who eventually would spread to
other regions of the world, much like the Soviet Union's conflict with
Afghanistan is thought to have done in the 1980s.
"These might be some of the first signs that Iraq is beginning to send
the same sort of wave of militants back to their countries of origins or other
countries," said Jesús Nuñez Villaverde, director of the Institute for the
Study of Conflicts and Humanitarian Action, a research group in Madrid. "It
could be a repetition of the same story of Afghanistan."
Nakhcha was arrested Wednesday in the town of Santa Coloma de Gramanet in
the northeastern region of Catalonia, the ministry statement said. Two other
suspected members of his group also were arrested Wednesday.
Information leading to Nakhcha's arrest came from some of the men who
were arrested in June during the first police operation against suspected
recruiters, officials said.
Investigators concluded that Nakhcha was responsible for determining that
the recruits were fully committed to "becoming integral members of the Iraqi
groups, either as combatants or to perpetrate suicide attacks," the ministry
statement said.
Germany convicts militant
A German court on Thursday convicted an Iraqi Kurd of aiding Al
Qaeda-linked militants who carried out suicide bombings in his home country,
The Associated Press reported from Munich.
Amin Lokman Mohamed, 33, was convicted of belonging to a foreign
terrorist organization and of human trafficking to help Ansar al-Islam, a group
linked to Al Qaeda. He was sentenced to seven years in prison,
The case is one of several in Germany and elsewhere exploring how Islamic
radicals attract volunteers and financial support from a network of
sympathizers across Europe.
It also was a first test for new German counterterrorism laws, which were
toughened after it emerged that three of the Sept. 11 hijackers had lived
undetected in Hamburg.
Mohamed, who came to Germany as an asylum seeker in 2000, has
acknowledged smuggling at least eight volunteers from Europe to Iraq before his
December 2003 arrest in Munich.
One of those volunteers died while carrying out a suicide bombing.
The court said Mohamed helped others travel in the opposite direction,
including an alleged bomb-maker who went to Britain for medical treatment.
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