Spain
and Morocco have captured fourteen folks during a joint operation targeting
suspected recruiters for the questionable Islamic State (IS) cluster.
On
Friday, a Moroccan who had living in Spain was captured following a discomfited
attack on a high-speed French train.
Ayoub
El-Khazzani, 25, originally from Tetouan in northern Morocco, arrived Spain in
2007 and lived there for seven years, in Spanish capital Madrid and Algeciras,
before moving to France.
He
is suspected of getting had contact with radical Islamists and had been placed
on an inventory marked as "potentially dangerous" by Spanish
authorities. They flagged this up to French counterparts in 2014 February.
One
arrest was made near Spanish capital Madrid and others in numerous Moroccan
cities.
Those
captured are suspected of involvement with a network to send fighters to areas
of Syria and Iraq beneath IS management.
Spanish
counter-terrorism sources quoted on Monday by the Spanish Cadena Ser radio
network aforesaid that some 800 folks with a radical religious person profile
were in Europe and prepared to strike, having come from Syria and Iraq.
The
latest Spanish arrest passed in San Martin de la Vega, near Spanish capital,
and also the others were within the Moroccan cities of Fez, Casablanca, Nador,
al-Hoceima and Driouech.
The
Spanish interior ministry aforesaid the operation was in progress, while not
giving specific details.
BBC
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