(Reuters) Elizabeth Fullerton - Spain on Tuesday arrested 20 people suspected of recruiting Islamist fighters for Iraq. The Spanish Interior Ministry said the Barcelona-area cell was responsible for recruiting an Algerian suicide bomber who killed 19 Italians and nine Iraqis in an attack on an Italian police base in southern Iraq in November 2003, in the deadliest attack on Italian forces since World War II. Interior Minister Jose Antonio Alonso said it was possible that the militants also may have planned "violent actions" in Europe.
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