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Source: http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/216/nation/Exposing_Al_Qaeda_s_European_network+.shtml
Exposing Al Qaeda's European Network
(Boston Globe) - According to a 700-page report by Spanish authorities, the product of several years of wiretaps of Islamic militants, the Al Qaeda cell that carried out the Sept. 11 attacks, along with several others in Europe, made up a network that relied on clusters of religiously motivated Muslims from North Africa who had settled in Spain in the mid-1990s. To this day, Europe remains Al Qaeda's forward position for logistics, financing, and recruitment. An 11-month dragnet across Europe has resulted in the arrests and questioning of more than 200 people suspected of ties to Al Qaeda, in Spain, France, Italy, Germany, England, and the Netherlands.