Moroccan Abou Mosaab Anadori Arrested in Spain

March 5th, 2009

By Al Goodman
CNN Madrid Bureau Chie
fMADRID, Spain (CNN)

Spanish Civil Guards have arrested a Moroccan man wanted for alleged terrorist plots in Spain and Morocco, Spain’s Interior Ministry announced Thursday.

The 21-year-old suspect was arrested Tuesday in eastern Tarragona province, near Barcelona, on a Moroccan warrant, but the ministry did not make it public until Thursday.

The man — identified only by his initials, J.M., and an alias, “Abou Mosaab Anadori” — allegedly plotted terrorist attacks in Spain. Moroccan authorities also link him to an alleged plot against tourist sites in Morocco, the ministry said in a statement.

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Al Qaeda Kidnapper/Fund Raiser Zakaria Arrested

This is a bit dated, July 4th, 2007 but of interest in light of what else happend in Algeria in July,2007.

-Shimron


Algerian security services have arrested R. Rabah, aka Zakaria, the principal organiser of terrorist kidnapping operations in Kabylia designed to raise funds for the al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb, Liberte reported on Wednesday (July 4th).

Zakaria was arrested and three other terrorists were killed during an operation in Oued Ksari in Tizi Ouzou province.

• Security services seized weapons and a large amount of money, presumably obtained through ransoms.
• Liberte quotes security sources as saying that, over the past few months, Zakaria has collected more than 40 billion dinars for al-Qaeda "emir" Abou Moussab Abdelouadoud. The money was allegedly used for the purchase of weapons and explosives and for financing car bomb attacks in Tizi Ouzou, Boumerdes and Algiers.
• According to Liberte, more than 89 kidnappings were recorded between March 2006 and June 2007 in Kabyliya, 90% of which were executed by Zakaria.
• In related news, El Khabar reported that two terrorists have surrendered to Algerian army in Hassi Ziane, Djelfa province.
• Reportedly, one of the repentant terrorists is a leader of Migrants Troop, a terrorist group operating along the Boukhil mountains in Djelfa and Mssila.

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