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Posted: 29 Feb 2016 09:41 AM PST
A former Guantanamo detainee named Hamed Abderrahaman Ahmed was
arrested on Feb. 23 in Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in North Africa, for
allegedly running a jihadist recruiting cell for the Islamic State. Spanish
authorities also claim that he and others were willing to carry out a
terrorist attack on Spanish soil. According to a leaked Joint Task Force
Guantanamo threat assessment, Ahmed traveled through Iran to Afghanistan to
receive training in al Qaeda's camps in 2001.
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Posted: 29 Feb 2016 07:52 AM PST
The presence of Taliban prisons in Helmand highlights the
rapidly deteriorating security situation in Helmand, where Afghan forces are
losing ground to the jihadist group.
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