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Teenager guilty in bombing trial
By Associated Press
Published November 17, 2004
MADRID - The first trial stemming from the Madrid terror bombing ended after only 25 minutes Tuesday with a Spanish teenager pleading guilty to charges he helped transport dynamite used in the attack.
The 16-year-old, who said he acted unknowingly, accepted the prosecutor's request for a six-year term in a juvenile detention center, then five years of probation.
The trial had been scheduled to last three days at the National Court, but the boy pleaded guilty right after the charges from prosecutor Blanca Rodriguez were read out by a court clerk.
The boy, his identity protected under Spanish law, was asked if he understood the charges, confessed to them and accepted the prosecutor's jail-term request. He answered "yes" three times.
The March 11 attack killed 191 people and was blamed on Muslim militants linked to al-Qaida.
"Leading member' of extremist cell arrested
MADRID - A judge charged a jailed Moroccan on Tuesday with being a leading member of Islamic extremist groups in three countries, including an organization suspected in the killing of a Dutch filmmaker.
Judge Baltasar Garzon filed the provisional charges after interrogating Abdeladim Akoudad, who has been jailed in Spain since October 2003 on an extradition request from Morocco over bombings in Casablanca in May 2003.
The judge said Akoudad, 36, was a "a leading member" of an Islamic extremist cell - known in the Netherlands as the Hofstad Network - believed responsible for the Nov. 2 killing of Dutch film director Theo van Gogh.
Fellow alleged cell member Mohamed Bouyeri is the prime suspect in the killing.
Suspected members of ETA arrested in Spain
MADRID - Police arrested 17 suspected members of the armed Basque separatist group ETA on Tuesday in a series of predawn raids in northern Spain, officials said.
About 150 police officers took part in the raids in all three Basque provinces and in the neighboring Navarra region, the Interior Ministry said.
The arrests raised to at least 32 the number of suspected ETA members detained since Oct. 25.
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