{"id":8595,"date":"2013-06-21T06:12:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T06:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/spain-detains-eight-al-qaeda-linked-suspects\/"},"modified":"2013-06-21T06:12:45","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T06:12:45","slug":"spain-detains-eight-al-qaeda-linked-suspects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/spain-detains-eight-al-qaeda-linked-suspects\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain Detains Eight al-Qaeda-linked Suspects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Spanish security forces have arrested eight suspects in the country&#8217;s North African enclave of Ceuta accused of recruiting fighters for an arm of al-Qaeda in Syria.}}<\/p>\n<p>An interior ministry statement said that police intelligence services and the military-linked Spanish Civil Guard launched operations against the ring early on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have broken up a network responsible for sending combatants to al-Qaeda linked terrorist groups operating in Syria,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry, security forces confirmed that several &#8220;jihadists&#8221; were waiting to travel from Spain to Syria and dozens of people had already been sent from the enclave and other parts of Morocco by the ring.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This network, based in Ceuta and [Moroccan city of] Fnideq, carried out fundraising, indoctrination, and organising and financing travel, in contact with other terrorists and following the guidelines of the al-Qaeda terrorist organisation,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Spain&#8217;s police had been investigating the network since 2009, and the Civil Guard since 2011, before they joined forces early this year.<\/p>\n<p>The eight suspects face charges of &#8220;belonging to a terrorist organisation,&#8221; the ministry said, adding that a National Court judge supervising the investigation had issued search warrants that were being executed on Friday.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3015 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ooo-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{agencies}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Spanish security forces have arrested eight suspects in the country&#8217;s North African enclave of Ceuta accused of recruiting fighters for an arm of al-Qaeda in Syria.}} An interior ministry statement said that police intelligence services and the military-linked Spanish Civil Guard launched operations against the ring early on Friday morning. &#8220;We have broken up a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-8595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8595"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=8595"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=8595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}