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Spain arrests man wanted for Casablanca bombing

Tue Apr 1, 2008 4:51pm EDT
MADRID, April 1 (Reuters) - Civil guards in Spain's north African enclave of Melilla arrested a man on Tuesday wanted by Morocco over the 2003 Casablanca bombings that killed 32 people and 13 suicide bombers.

Acting on an international arrest warrant from Morocco, Spanish police detained Ali Aarass, who Morocco accuses of being involved in the Casablanca blasts.

Police said they had seized documents from his home in Melilla.

Police said they had also detained Mohammed El Bay, who they said was in charge of striking up links with Central European arms dealers on behalf of an Islamic militant group in Morocco which was broken up in February.

Moroccan authorities have broken up dozens of suspected cells of religious militants in recent years and the country's prisons now hold hundreds of Islamists. (Reporting by Ben Harding)


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