Madrid
Spanish police arrested four more suspects this week in connection with the Madrid train bombings—which killed more than 200 people—bringing the number of detainees to 14. One of the Moroccan men arrested last week, Jamal Zougam, is the head of a local cell of Islamic militants believed to be behind the bombings. But Moroccan investigators said they believed the mastermind of the attack was another Moroccan, a 36-year-old from a prominent family, whom they can’t name yet for legal reasons. The man, who is married to an American and has connections to al Qaida operative Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi is believed to have activated terror cells in Spain last year, when he fled there after several bombings in Casablanca.
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