'World jihad' team arrested in Spain

CNN:

Six suspected Islamic militants were Wednesday arrested in northern Spain on suspicion of using the Internet to recruit for and plot a 'world jihad,' a Ministry of Interior statement said.

The arrests came in Burgos province, a few hours' drive north of Madrid.

The six, allegedly linked to international Islamic terrorist activity, were seized in an operation involving U.S., Danish and Swedish intelligence agencies, the statement said.

"A large part of the activity was carried out on restricted Internet 'chats' and forums, which shows that the cell arrested was the first one detected and dismantled in Spain that promoted 'world jihad' through the Internet," the statement said.

Police were searching the homes of the six suspects and also a butcher shop run by one of them. Documents and computers were seized, the statement said.

Some of the money raised by the group allegedly was sent to Islamic terrorist convicts or suspects in prison, it said.

The alleged ringleader is Abdelkader Ayachine, an Algerian, and his top aide, Wissan Lotfi, a Moroccan. They were allegedly preaching violent jihadi ideology to promote an international "holy war," especially in Iraq, the statement said.

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Shhh. Don't tell the NY Times that al Qaeda is getting outside help in Iraq, or was. They might have to rearrange that goofy sentence they put in every story about al Qaeda in Iraq or Mesopotamia as the Times likes to call it.

Seriously, this is a good piece of intelligence work by several agencies. I hope we were intercepting their communications and reading their email to catch them. That is something that would be almost impossible under the rules the House Democrats want to put in place.