Suspected recruitment network for Islamic State ‘broken up’ in Spain

No soft soaping here.......thank goodness

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...-in-Spain.html

Eight Spanish nationals were arrested in dawn raids, police say, breaking up what the interior ministry called a “jihadi terrorist cell”


A terrorist recruitment network connected to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) has been broken up by Spanish police.


In dawn raids in various locations across Spain, eight Spanish nationals, five of whom have Moroccan origins, were arrested in the provinces of Barcelona, Girona, Ciudad Real and Ávila in an operation against what Spain’s interior ministry is calling a “jihadi terrorist cell”.


The ministry said that those detained “selected candidates to be sent to Syria and Iraq via contacts provided to them by their [Isil] liaisons”.



Having confiscated propaganda videos from the homes as well as the suspects’ computers, investigators believed that they had “incited others to commit terrorist actions in Spain by following the same modus operandi of attacks in other countries”.


In one of the properties raided, the police found two shotguns.

Two of the eight detained on Friday morning were women. Earlier this month a woman was arrested at Barcelona airport after being detained in Turkey allegedly trying to enter Syria as an Isil volunteer.

Friday’s operation was carried out with cooperation from Morocco’s General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance internal intelligence agency, which regularly works together with Spanish security forces in the fight against Islamist terrorism.

Two terrorist suspects were arrested by Spanish police in the North African enclave of Ceuta on Tuesday in connection with a cell that was partially broken up with the detention of four other men in January.

The police said that the Ceuta cell was “following instructions imparted by Daesh”, in reference to Isil, using the Arabic name for the terrorist organisation.

“The arrested group was fully prepared and willing to attack in Spain or any other European country.” In January two pairs of brothers were arrested by police, their Ceuta homes found to contain material that suggested they were poised to launch terrorist attacks, including photographs of official buildings and a Glock pistol.

After keeping the suspects, all of Spanish nationality, under observation, the police said they were “physically and mentally ready for jihad”, reflected by the “many and complex security measures they followed in their movements and communications”.

Jorge Fernández Díaz, Spain’s interior minister, compared the Ceuta suspects to the Kouachi brothers, responsible for the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris in January during which 12 people were killed. Their accomplice, Amedy Coulibaly, killed a policewoman and killed four hostages during a Kosher supermarket siege in the two days after.

Re: Suspected recruitment network for Islamic State ‘broken up’ in Spain

Well done to them. But makes me even more sure bombing is not right this is a different sort of war where they are in small groups within other countries.

Re: Suspected recruitment network for Islamic State ‘broken up’ in Spain

Indeed Julie, these groups are everywhere in many countries. Here we rarely hear about such things as above until it´s over and done with. A good thing in my opinion, no press to leak out stories which obviously can give warnings to the "baddies", they just get on with the job in hand. Political correctness flies right out of the window regarding certain matters, no bending over backwards for fear of upsetting some group or other here, which in my personal opinion is as it should be.