11 Islamic religous bigots arrested in Spain

AP/Houston Chronicle:

Hundreds of police and security officials arrested at least 11 suspected Islamic militants in pre-dawn raids today in the Spanish African enclave of Ceuta, nabbing them at their homes and while they prayed in local mosques.

The men — including 10 Spaniards and one Moroccan — had recently begun discussing taking concrete action to launch an attack, though they were in the early stages and are not believed to have selected a target, said Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, who was traveling in Algeria.

"It was an Islamic cell in the process of being formed, so they had no specific targets," Rubalcaba said. "But when we saw that they were moving from fanatic discussion to direct action we moved ahead to detain them."

Among those arrested by officials acting on months of intelligence were two brothers of Hamed Abderrahman Ahmed, a Spaniard detained at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba until 2004, officials said. Ahmed himself was not taken into custody, police said.

Forces sent by boat from the Spanish mainland carried out the operations in neighborhoods all over the city, a police official in Ceuta told The Associated Press. A national police official said that 300 security agents took part in the operation.

Police said they found incriminating documents and audio and video material during the raids, as well as false identity papers, bulletproof vests and a stash of money.

Rubalcaba said that Spanish authorities had received help from Moroccan intelligence agencies.

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The Spanish retreat from Iraq has bought them nothing, but continued aggression by the Muslim religious bigots. Someday socialist anti war types are going to comprehend that it is our existence as non Muslims that motivates the religious bigots. They cannot be appeased or negotiated with. They must be destroyed. This should be a lesson to the Defeatocrats who think they can buy peace by retreat and defeat in Iraq.