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SPAIN ARRESTS NINE ISLAMICS ON TERROR RELATED CHARGES…….

Yeah, the Islamics, a new word for new times.

Spain arrests eight suspected Islamist militants in dawn raid

Maria, the mother of 18-year-old Ismael who was arrested in Piera on suspicion of having links to Islamic militant activities, weeps at their home in Piera, northeastern Spain, March 13, 2015. REUTERS-Gustau Nacarino
Esther, the sister of 18-year-old Ismael who was arrested in Piera on suspicion of having links to Islamist militant activities, stands by one of the computers which the police took a hard drive from during a raid at their home in Piera, northeastern Spain, March 13, 2015.   REUTERS-Gustau Nacarino
Esther, the sister of 18-year-old Ismael who was arrested in Piera on suspicion of having links to Islamist militant activities, stands by one of the computers which the police took a hard drive from during a raid at their home in Piera, northeastern Spain, March 13, 2015.   REUTERS-Gustau Nacarino

1 OF 7. Maria, the mother of 18-year-old Ismael who was arrested in Piera on suspicion of having links to Islamic militant activities, weeps at their home in Piera, northeastern Spain, March 13, 2015.

CREDIT: REUTERS/GUSTAU NACARINO

(Reuters) – Eight suspected Islamist militants accused of planning attacks in Spain and recruiting fighters to send to Syria and Iraq were arrested in dawn raids across Spain on Friday, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

The six men and two women were connected to the Islamic State militant group via one of their operatives who organized activity from Syria and Iraq, the ministry said.

All those arrested had Spanish nationality, and five were of Moroccan heritage.

“The group represented a serious and definite threat to national security,” the ministry said in a statement, adding that the network aimed to carry out attacks on the mainland.

The Spanish government has renewed its focus on Islamist militant activity since the attacks on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris in January in which gunmen killed 17 people.

Islamist militants killed nearly 200 people in March 2004 in an attack on a commuter train, setting off bombs hidden in rucksacks as the train drew in to Madrid’s main station.

Including Friday’s arrests, Spanish police have arrested 23 people linked to such activity so far this year, according to government data – more than half the total arrested in the whole of last year.

The arrests on Friday were made in Barcelona and Girona in the north east of Spain and Ciudad Real and Avila in the center, the ministry said.

 

More here. H/T: Fjordman via Jihad Watch

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