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Spain holds Islamic terror suspect
MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- Spanish police have arrested a man described as a "dangerous terrorist" who they say has trained in camps in Afghanistan controlled by Osama bin Laden. Algerian Abdelkrim Hammad, alias Aldelnassa, is also wanted for murder in Algeria, a police statement said on Friday. He was not armed and did not resist arrest, a police spokesman told CNN. The arrest took place in the northern Spanish town of Tudelilla on Thursday. He was wanted on an international arrest warrant for belonging to an armed terrorist group and for murder in his native Algeria, the police said. Hammad fled France in late 2001 and has since lived in various locations in eastern and northern Spain, where the police said he recruited Islamic radical fighters and preached Islamic extremism during conferences he gave at Muslim meeting places. Earlier, he had fought in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Kosovo. Since the mid-1990s, he had lived in various European nations, recruiting young Islamic radicals. He is believed to have been part of a logistical support network for Islamic activists that police said was linked to the Algerian terrorist organisation GIA. In Spain, the police said he had no known job but owned a three-story rural house in Tudelilla on a sizable tract of land, as well as a car. He also promoted radical Islamic schools. Since the September 11 attacks, Spain has arrested about 20 suspected Islamic terrorists. Most of them have been allegedly linked to bin Laden's al Qaeda organisation, and some of them have been charged with having a supporting role in the attacks on the U.S. The police statement did not link Abdelkrim Hammad to al Qaeda, but instead to a group close to Algeria's GIA. Details of the murder he is accused of committing in Algeria were not disclosed.
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