Interior Minister Diaz said yesterday’s arrest of eight suspected members of an al Qaeda jihadist recruiting network based in the Spanish territory of Ceuta and the Moroccan city of Fnideq had “neutralized” the network. The alleged ringleader of the group, who remains at large, is said to be outside Spain but has family connections to Ceuta. The cell’s recruits have participated in terrorist attacks in Syria with the Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic State of Iraq. Authorities acknowledged a martyrdom video of a Spanish suicide bomber who detonated in Idlib, Syria. Last week authorities arrested four Tunisians in Barcelona for distributing Islamist literature.
