suspected of stealing passports for radical Islamic cells in Thailand and Pakistan, and collaborating with the group that carried out the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, the country's Interior ministry said Wednesday.The suspects, six Pakistanis and one Nigerian, are believed to be part of a European network that allegedly obtained passports to be forged in Thailand. The passports were later distributed to cells including al Qaeda, Pakistan's Lashkar e Taiba—which carried out the Mumbai attacks, killing 175 people—and Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers, the ministry said in a statement.
This is the latest in a series of police stings in recent years against local cells linked to al Qaeda. Islamic terrorists haven't attacked Spain since the Madrid bombings in 2004 killed 191 people, but have remained active in the country.
The Thailand-based head of the group, also a Pakistani citizen, was detained there, together with another Pakistani and a Thai national, the ministry added."
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