Today, the Spanish Guardia Civil arrested 20 Al-Qaeda terrorists in two seperate cells in Madrid, Catalonia and the Basque region.
According to Spanish Interior Minister Jose Antonio Alonso, they were involved in recruiting and training suicide bombers for the Iraq insurgency, and may also have been involved in planning attacks in Europe.
Those arrested included 15 Moroccans, a Turk, an Algerian and three Spanish Muslims and had links to France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Algeria, Morocco, Turkey and Syria. The Algerian, leader of the Madrid-based cell, was trained in Afghanistan, Alonso said.
Spanish authorities have arrested 52 people suspected of involvement in Islamist terrorism in the past two months.
Slowly but surely, the West is starting to awaken. And hopefully Spain has realized, if nothing else, that appeasement of terrorists grants no immunity from terrorism.
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