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Arrests continue in hunt for al-Qaida suspects

A video found near a Madrid mosque two days after the attack indicated that it was carried out as an act of revenge against Spain for sending 1,300 troops to Iraq. The speaker claimed to be “Abu Dulan al-Afghani, military spokesman for al-Qaida in Europe.” The supposed ringleader of the attack, Serhane Ben Abdelmajid Fakhet, a 35-year-old Tunisian, and six others were killed when they blew themselves up in the Madrid suburb of Leganes rather than be captured at the beginning of April last year.Full Story