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May 25, 2004       Share:    

Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-terrcrime23may23,1,537284.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Muslim Extremists Who Attacked Madrid Funded Plot by Selling Drugs

(Los Angeles Times) Sebastian Rotella - The ideologues of the Madrid terrorist cell justified selling drugs as a weapon of jihad. The Moroccan dealer who financed the plot traded a load of hashish for the dynamite that slaughtered 191 people aboard commuter trains on March 11. The drug trafficker led the cell along with a Tunisian economics student, both of whom blew themselves up after a standoff with Spanish police last month.

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