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Seven terror suspects held

MADRID: Spanish police have arrested at least seven people suspected of financing an Islamic terrorist group with links to Al-Qaeda, news reports said on Friday. The arrests began on Thursday night in southern Spain's Costa del Sol region, the news agencies Efe and Europa Press reported. The detenus were suspected of raising money for an Algerian-based Islamic extremist organization, the Salafist Group for Call and Combat, the news agencies reported. Efe said they were arrested on orders from the National Court, the Madrid-based tribunal that oversees probes of terrorism cases in Spain. Interior Ministry officials were not immediately available to comment on the reports. Police made the arrests in apartments in the cities of Malaga, Marbella and Torremolinos, and continued to carry out searches on Friday morning.

AP

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