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Spanish Police Arrest Over a Dozen Would-Be Jihadists

After months of investigation and surveillance, Spanish police made 13 arrests this week in one of the largest anti-terror operations in recent years.

On Tuesday, Spanish National Police, working with their Moroccan counterparts, dismantled a terror recruitment cell by arresting nine in the North African exclave of Melilla and another person in the city of Nador, just across the Moroccan border, El Mundo reports.

The General Directorate for the Surveillance of Moroccan Territory (DGSN) said that the suspects were attempting to recruit new jihadists. Among those arrested was one suspect who is believed to be a member of a terrorist group operating in the African Sahel region. 

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