 The
six Algerian terrorists arrested Wednesday in Spain for their
relation with the terrorist network linked to the Saudi Arabian
Oussama Ben Laden, are part of a cell which is not yet activating
and will be prosecuted Friday before the Spanish court, announced
Thursday the general manager of the Spanish police, Juan Cotino,
quoted by EFE agency. According to Cotino the six Algerians were
composing a cell in the process of activation from the Salafiste
terrorist group for predication and fight (GSPC).
The six men, identified as Mohamed Boualem khnouni,
Alias Abdallah, head of the group, Mohamed Belaziz, Yassine Seddiki,
Hakim Zerzour, Madjid Sahouane, Alias Abderahmane or Abdelmadjid,
and Hocine Khouni-- were also constituting a network of recruitment
of fundamentalist militants, notably among the Algerian community in
Spain, Cotino added when presenting to the press the result of
seizures made during the search.
In Brussels, the Spanish home minister, Mariano Rajoy
asserted to Spanish journalists that one of the persons arrested
"was able to become a kamikaze'', according to the notes found on
his agenda, the Spanish agency reported.
A day before, the Spanish authorities indicated that
the persons arrested were expecting to commit suicide attacks
against American interests in Europe.
Among the equipment exposed to the press there were
equipments of computing, optics, falsified documents, cash money, as
well as video cassettes showing attacks perpetrated in Algeria and
in Tchechenia, as well as camps of training in Afghanistan, Cotino
specified.
The arrest of these six men, in five Spanish
provinces, is the conclusion of an international rogatory commission
launched by a Belgian examining magistrate, charged of the file
concerning the Tunisian Nizar Trabelsi, arrested on September 3 in
Belgium in possession of machinegun and chemical products that could
be used to manufacturing explosives. Nizar Trabelsi, who came in
June to Spain, was in contact with this cell.
Reacting to the dismantling of this "terrorist cell",
the chairman of the Spanish government expressed Thursday his
"satisfaction" and asserted that "these terrorists had financial
connections with the terrorist organisation of Ben Laden", in a
press conference, accompanied by the Greek president Costis
Stephanopoulos, in a state visit to Madrid.
The Spanish operation is the second one against the
presumed organisation of Ben Laden, following the arrest in June,
then the extradition to France on July 12, of Mohamed Bensakhria, 34
years old, requested the French anti-terrorist judge Jean-Louis
Bruguiere.
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