{"id":1110,"date":"2008-01-19T16:53:32","date_gmt":"2008-01-19T20:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/19\/islamic-terrorists-caught-in-spain\/"},"modified":"2008-01-21T12:26:39","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T16:26:39","slug":"islamic-terrorists-caught-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1110","title":{"rendered":"Islamic terrorists caught in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reports that the Spanish aren&#8217;t avoiding terrorists just by evacuating from Iraq (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB120077352484503143.html?mod=world_news_whats_news\">WSJ link<\/a>);<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fourteen suspected Islamic militants arrested in Spain on Saturday may have been planning a terrorist action in Barcelona, the interior minister said.<\/p>\n<p>Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said more arrests were expected and the country was on high security alert. He said overnight searches of the suspects&#8217; homes unearthed four timers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When someone has timers at home you have no option but to think violent acts are being planned,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests in Barcelona were prompted by information from several European intelligence agencies, and there was evidence the suspects &#8212; 12 Pakistani nationals and two people from India &#8212; could have been planning &#8220;a terrorist action&#8221; in the northern city, he told a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Civil Guard officers made the arrests as part of raids planned with the National Intelligence Center, the Spanish equivalent of the CIA, Mr. Rubalcaba said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe the most remarkable part of the story is that AP actually identified them as &#8220;Islamic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I guess the promise that al Qaeda made to leave Spain alone if they withdrew from Iraq had an expiration date attached.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reports that the Spanish aren&#8217;t avoiding terrorists just by evacuating from Iraq (WSJ &hellip; <a title=\"Islamic terrorists caught in Spain\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1110\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Islamic terrorists caught in Spain<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-media","category-politics","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}