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| 11 November 2004 | Thursday | 27 Ramazan 1425 |
Pakistani held in Spain on terror charge
BARCELONA, Nov 10: Spanish police said they arrested 11th Pakistani suspect overnight in Barcelona for alleged membership in an Islamic terrorist group police said they had broken up in a September raid in the north-eastern city.
Spanish judge Ismael Moreno ordered the operation, which nabbed the first 10 Pakistani suspects on Sept 15. They have been placed in preventive detention pending charging for suspected membership in a terrorist group and drug trafficking.
The identity of the latest suspect was not disclosed, nor his alleged role in the group.
The first 10 had several kilograms of high-quality heroin and forged documents in their possession when they hauled in, according to police who said they are not suspected of involvement in the March 11 train bombings in Madrid that killed 191 people in the country's worst-ever terrorist attack.
The 10 also held videos, one of which, filmed in 2002, showed images of several well-known buildings in Barcelona, including the World Trade Center, and the Maremagnum leisure centre.
Judicial sources said the video images were not those normal tourists would take and that some footage shows imams calling for jihad ('holy war').-AFP
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