TERRORISM: Identified by al-Jazeera television, Mustafa Setmarian Nasar have contributed to the preparation of the carnage that took 192 died in Madrid in 2004.
Diane Cambon Le Figaro, 4 November 2005
the alleged mastermind of the attacks of March 11, 2004 in Madrid (192 dead) was captured in Pakistan. Considered one of the founders of the English cell of al-Qaeda in the 90s, Mustafa Setmarian Nasar, alias "Red", was fleeing from the carnage in Madrid. The Arabic television al-Jazeera has been identified as the person arrested Monday in Quetta in Pakistan. Pakistani authorities said yesterday they were checking his identity.
Setmarian, 48, a naturalized Syrian English in 1987, is suspected of having been involved in the preparation the Madrid bombings, but Casablanca (May 2003) and London (July 7, 2005). English judge Baltasar Garzon is also considered a suspect in the investigation into the attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York. According to English police, it would be close to bin Laden since 1988. The United States has offered five million dollars for his capture.
In Madrid, where he resided since 1985, this father of three, married to a Spaniard, worked in both the trade and crafts as a journalist for magazines fundamentalists. Preacher at the Abu Bakr mosque in Madrid, he was responsible for recruiting young people to train them for jihad. According the magistrate Garzon, he trained dozens of "soldiers of Islam" by sending them to train in Afghanistan. Until 1995, when he moved with his family to London to lead the magazine al-Ansar, the GIA Algerian media window, "the redhead" put up the first Islamic cell in Spain.
Towards extradition
Setmarian used the Iberian Peninsula as a haven for Islamists prepared to wage jihad. In his entourage, there are several characters involved in the attacks on New York and Madrid: Abu Dahdah, who was sentenced in September by the English court to 27 years in prison, but also Serhan Ben Abdelmajid, alias "the Tunisian", which became the main organizer of the March 11 attacks. The trial against the perpetrators of the March 11, scheduled for next year, could lead the English courts to seek the extradition of Setmarian, while Madrid has no extradition agreement with Islamabad.
Diane Cambon Le Figaro, 4 November 2005
the alleged mastermind of the attacks of March 11, 2004 in Madrid (192 dead) was captured in Pakistan. Considered one of the founders of the English cell of al-Qaeda in the 90s, Mustafa Setmarian Nasar, alias "Red", was fleeing from the carnage in Madrid. The Arabic television al-Jazeera has been identified as the person arrested Monday in Quetta in Pakistan. Pakistani authorities said yesterday they were checking his identity.
Setmarian, 48, a naturalized Syrian English in 1987, is suspected of having been involved in the preparation the Madrid bombings, but Casablanca (May 2003) and London (July 7, 2005). English judge Baltasar Garzon is also considered a suspect in the investigation into the attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York. According to English police, it would be close to bin Laden since 1988. The United States has offered five million dollars for his capture.
In Madrid, where he resided since 1985, this father of three, married to a Spaniard, worked in both the trade and crafts as a journalist for magazines fundamentalists. Preacher at the Abu Bakr mosque in Madrid, he was responsible for recruiting young people to train them for jihad. According the magistrate Garzon, he trained dozens of "soldiers of Islam" by sending them to train in Afghanistan. Until 1995, when he moved with his family to London to lead the magazine al-Ansar, the GIA Algerian media window, "the redhead" put up the first Islamic cell in Spain.
Towards extradition
Setmarian used the Iberian Peninsula as a haven for Islamists prepared to wage jihad. In his entourage, there are several characters involved in the attacks on New York and Madrid: Abu Dahdah, who was sentenced in September by the English court to 27 years in prison, but also Serhan Ben Abdelmajid, alias "the Tunisian", which became the main organizer of the March 11 attacks. The trial against the perpetrators of the March 11, scheduled for next year, could lead the English courts to seek the extradition of Setmarian, while Madrid has no extradition agreement with Islamabad.
Source: Le Figaro
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