(New York Times) Elvis Mitchell - Five more suspects were arrested Thursday in the deadly Madrid train bombings, police officials said, as investigators gathered new evidence that the plot was led by Moroccan militants with ties to the al-Qaeda network. A senior foreign intelligence official familiar with the Madrid investigation said three of those arrested were Moroccans. Police officials identified a fourth as a Spanish citizen who was believed to have sold the explosives used in the attacks. The emerging picture suggests that at least some of those implicated were Moroccan immigrants with ties to Islamic radicals in Morocco who have been blamed for suicide bombings last May in Casablanca.
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