Al Qaeda Plot Busted In Spain?

The suspects, from left, listed as AAA and MA, of Russian origin, and CY, a Turk. The Telegraph

Three Terror Suspects Held In Spain, Authorities Say -- CNN

(CNN) -- In what the interior minister calls one of Spain's largest operations against al Qaeda, security services said Thursday they arrested three suspected terrorists who might have been plotting attacks on U.S. or British targets.

Two of the men were arrested Wednesday and the third Thursday, Spanish Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz said.

The Interior Ministry said the men were "ready to act in Spain and Europe." One of the men is Turkish, and the other two are believed to be of Russian-Chechen origin. Police sources said they had gathered enough explosives to "blow up a bus."

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