Homeland Security

DATE=4/05/04

TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT

TITLE=SPAIN / TERRORISM (L-O)

NUMBER=2-314795

BYLINE=GIL CARBAJAL

DATELINE=MADRID

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INTRO: Spanish authorities have now confirmed the identity of four of the five suspected terrorists who blew themselves up when surrounded by police on Saturday. Gil Carbajal reports from Madrid, were police have announced the arrest of two more men in connection with last month train bombings.

TEXT: During a visit to the southern Madrid suburb of Leganes where Spanish police cornered five suspected Islamic terrorists on Saturday, acting Spanish Interior Minister, Angel Acebes, confirmed that one of them was the 33-year-old Moroccan, Jamal Ahmidan, who is believed to be leader of the bombing team.

Spanish authorities have also announced the arrest of two more suspects in the March 11 attacks, one in the southern Madrid suburb of Fuenlabrada and the other in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on the North African coast. A majority of those arrested so far are Moroccans.

Jamal Ahmidan was on a list of six suspected terrorists for whom a Spanish judge had issued an international search warrant for perpetrating the bomb attacks on four commuter trains in Madrid that killed 191 people and injured more than 18-hundred.

Also identified by Spanish judicial authorities were the bodies of Adennabi Kounjaa, a Moroccan, and the Tunisian, Serhane Ben Abdelmajid Fakhet.

The conservative newspaper A-B-C said on Monday it had received a letter from Abu Dujana Al Afghani, who said he belonged to an al-Qaida group in Europe. He warned there would be more terrorist attacks unless Spain withdrew its support of the United States and pulled its forces out of Iraq. (Signed)

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