Spanish investigators say Al Qaeda's North African operations are financed through crime and fundraising activities in Spain and France. Nota mea: astazi Al Qaeda a anuntzat ca a fondat o celula de teroristi pe pamantul Europei.
by Press TV, 01/05/2007
The Spanish newspaper El Pais reported a team of prosecutors and judges have unearthed a complex web of sleeper cells in France and Spain that were financing terror operatives in North Africa.
In one example, money from the Bahamas had reached members of a cell in Spain that had attempted to mask its activities by creating bogus receipts made out in the name of a Japanese IT company, El Pais said.
Al Qaeda has recently stepped up operations in the Maghreb region of North Africa via its Algerian offshoot, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, the main armed militants in Algeria.
The group claimed responsibility for two car bombs in Algiers on April 11 which left 30 people dead and injured more than 200 people. Also in Morocco, six suicide bombers blew themselves up as police closed in on them in Casablanca last month.
According to El Pais, Spanish police say individuals currently in Spanish detention had links to the suicide bombers. Spanish and French intelligence reports also say France and Spain are key terrorist targets in Europe, the paper said.
*May 12*
940: Sixty-two-year-old Eutychius of Alexandria, the Greek who wrote *Nazm
al-Jauhar*, a history, of what some may consider of dubious accuracy ...
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