(Telegraph-UK) Eight suspected terrorists arrested in Spain this week were planning to bomb the national court in Madrid, police said Wednesday. The suicide attack on the building, a nerve center in the country's fight against terrorism, would have been timed to kill two senior judges and destroy archives of investigations into Islamic terrorist activity. Mohamed Achraf, an Algerian born in the United Arab Emirates, who is the alleged leader of a plot to detonate a 1,100 lb vehicle bomb outside the court, is being held in Zurich.
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