Thursday, August 18, 2005

GOT ANOTHER ONE:
Serbian police have arrested one of the last outstanding suspects in the Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people last year, Spain said on Wednesday.

Abdelmajid Bouchar, a 22-year-old Moroccan, was arrested in Belgrade for immigration violations and for carrying false Iraqi identification papers. Spain will seek his immediate extradition, the Interior Ministry said.

The suspect has been wanted on an international arrest warrant for more than a year.

Bouchar escaped from a suburban Madrid apartment three weeks after the bombings as police were closing in on a group of prime suspects, according to the judge leading the investigation.

Bouchar, a competitive distance runner, was taking out the trash when he noticed the police, yelled a warning to the others and fled, the judge said.

When police surrounded the apartment, seven suspects inside blew themselves up with a batch of the same stolen dynamite used to make the backpack bombs that were planted on four commuter trains on March 11, 2004, investigators said. The suicide blast also killed a police special agent.
What he has to say will be tremendously important, considering all the question marks surrounding this affair.

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