Spain arrests eight over links to Mumbai attacks

[Marxist]

MADRID (Reuters) - Eight men have been arrested in Barcelona, accused of having links to radical Islamic cells in Pakistan and collaborating with the group that carried out the attacks in Mumbai in 2008, media reported on Wednesday.

Seven Pakistani men were arrested on Tuesday and one north African man was arrested on Wednesday morning, media said.

The men belonged to a group that made fake identification documents which were sent to Pakistan to be used in attacks, the media reported.

They were also accused of sending money and fake documents to the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which was blamed for the attacks in India in November 2008 in which 166 people were killed.

No one was immediately available at the Interior Ministry to confirm the reports.

Spain arrests eight over links to Mumbai attacks | World | Reuters

 

[GUNS-N- ROSES]

MADRID (Reuters) - Eight men have been arrested in Barcelona, accused of having links to radical Islamic cells in Pakistan and collaborating with the group that carried out the attacks in Mumbai in 2008, media reported on Wednesday.

Seven Pakistani men were arrested on Tuesday and one north African man was arrested on Wednesday morning, media said.

The men belonged to a group that made fake identification documents which were sent to Pakistan to be used in attacks, the media reported.

They were also accused of sending money and fake documents to the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which was blamed for the attacks in India in November 2008 in which 166 people were killed.

No one was immediately available at the Interior Ministry to confirm the reports.

Spain arrests eight over links to Mumbai attacks | World | Reuters

good news. hopefully we will get to the bottom of this barbaric attack and punish those guilty.

 

[riju78]

just watched this as breaking news in BBC.... didnt give much details because of the snow chaos in UK at the moment

 

[Marxist]

8 Al Qaeda forgers arrested in Barcelona

At least eight people have been arrested this evening in several flats of the Raval district of Barcelona and Badalona by agents of the National Police in an operation against Islamist terrorism, reported sources close to the investigation.

Security forces linked the detainees, all Pakistani nationals, with a network of document forgers working for members of Al Qaeda in different countries.

The police raids were carried between late Tuesday and early Wednesday in at least seven homes in the neighborhood of Raval in the center of Barcelona, and neighbouring Badalona. However, the operation conducted in Spain has "international ramifications" according to police, and is being carried out jointly with other EU police forces.

The latest arrest related to Islamist terrorism in Spain was completed on 29 September in Barcelona, when police arrested a U.S. citizen of Algerian origin who allegedly financed terrorist activities in the Sahel and sent money to the organization of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).

The arrested, Mohamed Omar Dehbi, was bailed the next day after appearing before the National Court judge Santiago Pedraza, who found insufficient evidence of his involvement.

8 Al Qaeda forgers arrested in Barcelona

 

[Future Weapon]

oh..shut up..it's a fake news....ये पाकिस्तान को बदनाम करने की साजिश है.

 

[Icarus]

oh..shut up..it's a fake news....ये पाकिस्तान को बदनाम करने की साजिश है.

It would be appreciated if you post in English since the majority of members on this forum are unfamiliar with Hindi Text, that way you will be able to make your point more effectively.
Regards,

 

[Icarus]

Good, hang em........

 

[Jade]

Why are they in Spain...any new Mumbai Type attacks in Spain?

 

[Icarus]

Why are they in Spain...any new Mumbai Type attacks in Spain?

Taking in the sun and sights perhaps ?
Hey terrorists are people too, the lowest category of people but people all the same..........
Lol

 

[Ammyy]

Terror Arrests in Spain and Thailand

The police in Spain and Thailand arrested 10 people suspected of operating a counterfeiting network that provided fake European passports to Qaeda-linked terrorist groups in order to smooth their entry into Western countries, the Spanish Interior Ministry said on Wednesday.

Seven people — six Pakistanis and one Nigerian — were arrested in Barcelona in raids late Tuesday and early Wednesday, and three more — two Pakistanis and one Thai — were arrested in Bangkok, which served as the base for the operation, the ministry said in a statement.

The authorities said that terror organizations would request forged passports from the group according to nationality and age. Members of the group would then steal passports from tourists, mainly in Barcelona, and send them to Thailand where they were forwarded to the terror groups, the police said.

In the raids on the suspects’ homes, the police seized nine passports awaiting shipment to Thailand and another that had already been forged, along with a computer and 50 cellphones. The police said the group was linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistan-based terror group behind attacks in Mumbai in November 2008 that killed 163 people, and it also provided counterfeit passports and other documents to the Tamil Tigers, the Sri Lankan separatist group defeated last year by the government after decades of war.

The arrests struck at “an important passport operation for Al Qaeda, weakening its international counterfeiting apparatus, and therefore, its capacity to operate,” the ministry statement said, adding that the raids came after a year-and-a-half-long international investigation, which is continuing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/world/europe/02spain.html

 

[Ammyy]

Spain arrests group suspected of Mumbai attack links

Seven men are being held in Spain on suspicion of having links to a Pakistani militant group blamed for the 2008 Mumbai attacks, officials say.

The six Pakistanis and a Nigerian man are suspected of sending money and forged documents to Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), a group connected to al-Qaeda.

Three others - two Pakistanis and a Thai national - were held in Thailand as part of the same operation.

The three-day assault by gunmen in India two years ago killed 166 people.

The suspects allegedly formed part of a group in Thailand linked to LeT.

Spain's Interior Ministry confirmed the arrests, saying anti-terrorist officers detained the suspects in raids in and around Barcelona late on Tuesday and early on Wednesday.

The ministry said the arrests were part of an international operation, and that the head of the organisation - a Pakistani national living in Thailand - had been detained.

The ministry said the man had "directed the cells based in Europe, decided the features of the passports to obtain and, once they were received in Bangkok, supplied them to different terrorist groups".

It said the operation "neutralises an important cell providing passports to al-Qaeda".

BBC News - Spain arrests group suspected of Mumbai attack links

 

[CaptainJackSparrow]

If they have not commited any serious crime in these countries then India must demand their extradition.

 

[Ammyy]

If they have not commited any serious crime in these countries then India must demand their extradition.

I think our Government try their best for their extradition

Dnt wary sach sabke samne aajayega

 

[Marxist]

the seven held in Barcelona as Junaid Humayun, Atiqur Rehman, Jabran Ashgar, Malik Iftikhar Ahmad, Mohammad Saddique Khan Begum, Tanveer Arshad – all Pakistanis – and Nigerian-born Babatunde Agunbiade.

 

[Marxist]

Terror Arrests in Spain and Thailand

and it also provided counterfeit passports and other documents to the Tamil Tigers, the Sri Lankan separatist group defeated last year by the government after decades of war.


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/world/europe/02spain.html

this part is interesting Pakistanis helping LTTE.