15 May 2004	Saturday	24 Rabi-ul-Awwal 1425

MADRID, May 14: Spanish police said on Friday that they had arrested five suspected members of the Al Qaeda terrorist network in different parts of the country.

The arrests were made on Thursday in Madrid, Barcelona and in the northern Basque region, but police did not say whether the suspects were wanted in connection with the coordinated bombing of four suburban trains which killed 191 people in the capital on March 11.

Europa news agency said four of the detainees were Arabs and the fifth was Spanish and that they were picked up for forging identity papers and for trying to recruit others for terrorist actions. Police did not confirm the report.-AFP