Madrid train blasts: Terror suspects
MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- The following are the nine suspects accused of belonging to a terrorist organization in connection with the Madrid train bombings March 11, 2004: Fouad El Morabit Amghar, Moroccan, studied aeronautical engineering and electronics. Shared a flat with suspect Basel Ghayoun;Youssef Belhadj, Moroccan, arrested in Belgium in 2004 and extradited to Spain; some investigators suspect him of being the hooded person in a video released two days after the train bombings, claiming responsibility in the name of al Qaeda in Europe;Abdelmajid Bouchar, Moroccan, 23, as police closed in on the suburban hideout where 7 suspects later committed suicide, Bouchar alerted them from the street, and escaped on foot. Arrested in Serbia last year and extradited to Spain. Also linked to suspect Youssef Belhadj; Muhannad Almallah Dabas, Syrian born with Spanish nationality, an appliance repairman who rented a room to suspect Basel Ghayoun. Arrested in Britain last year, suspected of providing cover for and indoctrinating other radicals;Basel Ghalyoun (also spelled Ghayoun), Syrian born, allegedly seen by witnesses on or near the train. Admitted knowing suspect Jamal Zougam;Hassan El Haski, Moroccan, 42, considered a senior figure in the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group, allegedly said after the train bombings that "his group of Moroccans in Spain" had carried out the attacks, according to a December 2004 judge's order to jail him. Allegedly an ideologue behind the attacks, with prior knowledge that they were going to occur;Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed, alias "Mohamed the Egyptian," an alleged ideologue of the attacks. A judge's order in December 2004 said Ahmed claimed to know before the attacks that they were going to occur and he later took credit for them. Arrested in Italy, he was later sent to Spain for questioning before returning to Italy, where a trial on separate terrorism charges began earlier this year. He is the only of the train bombing suspects in custody outside of Spain at the time of the indictments;Jamal Zougam, Moroccan, 32, alleged leader of one of the three groups that converged to carry out the attacks, according to a judge's document of December 2004. Zougam was linked to the cell phones used as timer-detonators for the bombs, and he was among the first people arrested, just two days after the attacks. Zougam came to Spain as a boy, with his family, and he ran a telephone shop in Madrid's Lavapies neighborhood, which has a large immigrant population. He is also linked to a convicted al Qaeda cell leader in Spain, Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, and testified at the trial last year that he knew Yarkas.Mohamed Larbi Ben Sellam.
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