One of those detained in Ceuta was the former Guantanamo detainee who was not named by Spanish authorities but described as “a leader who was trained in handling weapons, explosives and in military tactics.” After being captured in 2002 and held in Guantanamo, he was returned to Spain in 2004, said Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz.<\/p>\n
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The suspects had set up contacts to try to acquire weapons and bomb-making materials and were aiming “to carry out terrorist acts in Spanish territory,” the Spanish ministry statement said, without specifying possible targets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
By the process of elimination, I arrived at the name of Hamed Abderrahman Ahmad also known as Ahmad Abd al Rahman Ahmad (in the picture above, that’s him leaving Spanish prison in 2004), a Spanish national who was captured in Pakistan while he was trying to escape the American invasion in 2001 and transferred to US custody at Guantanamo in 2002. In 2004 he was released from Gitmo to stand trial for crimes against Spain. Spanish courts convicted him and sentenced him to six years in prison. The sentence was overturned because there was a possibility that the evidence against Ahmad was acquired by torture, so the Spanish released him. In 2006, two of his brothers were arrested in Spain for terrorist activities related to al Qaeda – they were recruiting and sending Spaniards to Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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