World Challenges for the XXIst century

In the last Garzon’s judicial operation (jan 20th) against alleged Al-Qaeda collaborators, a Pakistani named Abdul Razzaq Sadiq was detained. It has been discovered he is Executive Secretary’s of the Catalan Socialist Party (the branch of Zapatero’s party in Catalonia) in the Catalonian city Ciutat Vella. Interior Ministry’s press release published his surnames changed, so no one could guess who he really was. In all police’s documents, his surnames were in right order, so the change was made only afterwards in the Interior Ministry’s press release.

Three days after, they were freed by a Garzón’s resolution, which said that he didn’t have proofs which could link them with the terrorist group’s financing scheme. But they had been accused of sending illegally money to Pakistan.

via Un detenido por financiar a Al Qaeda es un cargo del PSC de Barcelona.

This case makes me think: why some people are detained and only three days after the judge “discovers” that there was no reason for that arrest? It’s ridiculous. All were freed. Spanish police rarely messes up in these cases as they have truly good experience in dealing with terrorist thugs. So why on earth did this happen? Yes, I know that “people are innocent till proven guilty”, but isn’t this a kind of “rare” thing to arrest several people on these so grave charges to free them only three days after?

Catalonia is one of the areas of Spain where Islamic terrorism (if we consider included in that term also financing, training and recruiting jihadoterrorists) is most spread. Last people arrested were accused of forging documents for Al-Qaeda (scroll down for English translation). The most important groups in Catalonia are both Salafists and Hibz ut-Tahrir (the one who asked for the creation of global Caliphate in an event in Indonesia, which recruits mostly online).

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