In Madrid, on Wednesday morning, officers of the General Commissariat of Intelligence of the Spanish National Police Force arrested four Jihadis - three Moroccans and one Argentinean - under instructions from Section One of the Criminal Division of the Spanish National High Court, which issued the arrest warrant.
The four individuals, who had been conditionally released while awaiting a court ruling, were previously arrested within the framework of an operation by the General Commissariat of Intelligence conducted on 16 June 2014. That operation dismantled a network of international connections aimed at financing, recruiting, radicalising, indoctrinating and sending combatants to join the ranks of Jihadi terrorist organisations associated with Al Qaeda. Their organisation was perfectly structured, developed and consolidated, and was referred to by the terrorist cell members themselves as the "Al-Andalus Brigade".
It was revealed that this terrorist group had sent at least 11 Jihadi fighters to conflict zones from Morocco and Spain. Furthermore, it was verified that these Jihadi fighters joined factions of Al Qaeda in Syria and Iraq, there being evidence to show that their final destination was the terrorist organisation Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), into which these combatants would have been fully integrated to carry out any activity assigned to them by the organisation, mainly aimed at taking part in terrorist attacks and operations.
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