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Spain raids jihadist cell “led by ex-Guantanamo inmate” and recruiting for ISIS

Jun 16, 2014 4:30 pm By Robert Spencer

SpainpoliceThis jihadist recruitment network is led by a former Guantanamo Bay inmate. And so yet again we see the folly of the Obama policy of emptying out Gitmo while doing nothing to protect non-Muslims from the jihad that these men were certain to return to waging.

“Spain raids jihadist cell ‘led by ex-Guantanamo inmate,'” AFP, June 16, 2014:

Madrid (AFP) – Spanish police arrested eight people in pre-dawn raids in Madrid on Monday against a jihadist recruitment network led by a former Guantanamo Bay inmate, the government said.

Police have so far launched 12 raids in the Spanish capital, detaining eight people, and the investigation remains open, Spain’s interior ministry said in a statement.

The Islamic cell found and dispatched recruits for Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants based in Syria and Iraq, the ministry said.

ISIL fighters made rapid military gains in Iraq last week, seizing the second-biggest city Mosul and coming within 80 kilometres (50 miles) of Baghdad’s city limits. Online photos, which cannot be independently confirmed, apparently show ISIL militants massacring captured Iraqi soldiers during the offensive.

“It should be highlighted that the leader of this cell lived in Spain after passing through the Guantanamo military base, having been arrested in Afghanistan in 2001,” the Spanish ministry said, without providing further details.

President Barack Obama’s administration is trying to shut down its notorious prison at a US military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where many detainees are suspected of terror links but the authorities often lack sufficient evidence to try them in court.

Spain’s government has said it fears battle-hardened Islamist fighters may return to Spain from Syria and other conflict zones under the influence of Al-Qaeda-inspired groups, presenting a threat of attacks.

The latest operation by Spanish security forces is the third significant raid on jihadist recruitment cells announced in as many months.

On May 30, security forces arrested six suspects in Melilla, one of two Spanish-governed cities along with Ceuta on the northern Morocco coast.

Spain accused the network of recruiting and sending out jihadists to join “terrorist organisations” based in Mali and Libya.

On March 14, Spanish and Moroccan forces arrested seven suspects as they broke up a cell suspected of sending volunteer fighters to Mali, Syria and Libya.

The authorities detained three people in Morocco and another four in Spain — one of whom was caught in the southern city of Malaga and the other three in Melilla….

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  1. John C. Barile says

    Jun 16, 2014 at 4:40 pm

    We have a treasonous element–and at the highest level–in the United States and elsewhere who have consistently obscured and minimized the threats facing us–“local and regional poverty, injustice, grievances” my noble posterior.

    • Jaladhi says

      Jun 16, 2014 at 5:06 pm

      American public is responsible for this disaster!!

      • Islamisdeath says

        Jun 16, 2014 at 5:25 pm

        Well not all of us!

  2. Islamisdeath says

    Jun 16, 2014 at 5:34 pm

    Obama is smiling a gleeful smile! Its working! Its working! Death, destruction and chaos! Oh the beauty of a plan so perfectly executed! His spindly legs pump up and down as he dances about in what will become his caliphate palace. His evil heart floats in his chest so great is his joy.

    Lets see lets see who to set loose on them next? Which demon shall he release now?

  3. pdxnag says

    Jun 16, 2014 at 11:09 pm

    How can this folly be distinguished from letting any Imam, or any assertive Muslim, roam the streets of any Western country, let alone be declared a citizen thereof?

  4. Angemon says

    Jun 17, 2014 at 6:53 am

    ““It should be highlighted that the leader of this cell lived in Spain after passing through the Guantanamo military base, having been arrested in Afghanistan in 2001,” the Spanish ministry said, without providing further details.”

    But hey, they weren’t acting in US soil, so Hilary must be right to say they no longer constitute a threat to the US, right? RIGHT???

    I’d say it’s 16th-17th century all over again (when, for the most part, european nations were too busy bickering with one another to act together against the turkish threat and instead were actually happy when the hammer fell on their neighbours/rivals) but back then people actually recognized the threat posed by islam while today we’re pretending it’s all kitties and puppies basking in sunlight in a bed of roses. Guess what, islamic orthodoxy and way of thinking didn’t change since then.

  5. Charles Martel says

    Jun 17, 2014 at 10:54 am

    Mo was a MURDERER by his own bloody hands the cult of is-scum and the bs book of hate said followers only understand abject HORROR! Ask Vlad!

    Bring on the Mass Carpet Bombing en-mass with GPS guided Bombs!

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