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MADRID -- The Guardia Civil and the National Police report that IS cells (what the heck IS its name??) have been preparing for a number of kidnappings in the country, in order to finance themselves and obtain big headlines -- a common objective throughout the world for this lot. The report comes about as the result of a number of important arrests made in Melilla (one of two Spanish enclaves on the Nort African coast, the other being Ceuta), where several Yihadists (as is the preferred usage in Spanish) were taken into custody. Until recently, these cells had been involved mainly in proselytising, indoctrinating and recruitment among the Islamic community in Morocco and Algeria. They also carried out financing operations, transferring money throughout the Islamic world, included among which are operations for the March 11, 2004 attacks in Madrid and those of London a year later.//The cell that was dismantled in Melilla last week was being watched since May. It was a group of six men under instructions from Syria and Iraq by one Zakaria Said Mohammed, a former professional soldier trained in explosives. The Melilla group had a mountain of information on its computers, which were taken away and thoroughly examined.
