10 Nov, 2016 @ 13:10
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ISIS recruiters targeting children busted by Spanish cops

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isisAN ISIS recruiting cell that was targeting children has been busted in Spain.

The Spanish Ministry of Internal Affairs said: “The group focused on capturing, indoctrinating and sending young people and children to conflict zones in Syria and Iraq to turn them into future fighters.”

Officials said the suspects, three men and a woman, had set up a ‘fully operational and permanent recruiting network in Ceuta, focusing on young candidates, including children’.

The ministry’s statement added: “This terrorist cell had established a constant, fluid and permanent channel of communication with Daesh [Arabic pejorative term for IS], fighters in Syria.”

Authorities in Spain have arrested 161 jihadists since 2015.

Some 45% of the jihadists arrested since 2013 had Spanish nationality.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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