Madrid:Spanish police on Friday arrested

Mad­rid:Spa­nish police on Fri­day arrested 13 people with sus­pec­ted of links to Isla­mic extre­mist move­ments and those who car­ried out the Mad­rid train bom­bings last year, the interior mini­s­try announ­ced.
The mini­s­try said four of those arrested had close ties to Youssef Bel­hadj, the man belie­ved to be the Al-Qaeda extre­mist network’s spo­kes­man in Europe who was extra­di­ted Fri­day from Bel­gium to Spain on sus­pi­cion of involve­ment in the March 2004 attacks.
The mini­s­try added that six of those detai­ned in the ope­ra­tion invol­ving around 100 police offi­cers were Moroc­cans, four Syri­ans, one an Egyp­tian, anot­her a Pale­sti­nian and one an Algerian.(afp)