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NAME: SPA SUSPECT2 010404N TAPE: EF04/0365 IN_TIME: 10:24:08:06 DURATION: 00:02:24:02 SOURCES: APTN/AP PHOTOS/TELE5/TVE DATELINE: Various - 1 April 2004/Recent RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST TVE Madrid - April 1, 2004 1 Still photo of six suspects, named as: Top left Moroccan Jamal Ahmidan, Top middle Moroccan Said Berraj, Top right Tunisian Sarhane Ben Abdelmajid Fakhet, Bottom left Moroccan Abdennabi Kounjaa, Middle bottom Moroccan Mohammed Oulad Akcha, Bottom right Moroccan Rachid Oulad Akcha AP PHOTOS - (Spanish Interior Ministry Handout - No Access Canada/Internet) Madrid - April 1, 2004 2 Still of Sarhane Ben Abdelmajid Fakhet 3 Still of Said Berraj 4 Still of Jamal Ahmidan 5 Still of Abdennabi Kounjaa 6 Still of Mohammed Oulad Akcha 7 Still of Rachid Oulad Akcha TVE Madrid - April 1, 2004 8 Cars arriving at court 9 Policeman outside court 10 Exterior of court 11 Various of court exteriors 12 Judge arriving TVE Near Alcala de Henares - March 27, 2004 13 Various of house where police believe Madrid bombs were made Tele5 Madrid - March 11, 2004 14 Close aerial of bombed train at santa Eugenia station, zoom out 15 People carrying bodies away from train 16 Bodies covered with blankets on ground 17 Injured being carried away at El Pozo station APTN Madrid - March 11, 2004 19 Zoom in to bombed train carriage at El Pozo station, firemen searching wreckage STORYLINE A Spanish judge has identified a Tunisian as leader of the terrorist suspects in the Madrid train bombings and said the man had campaigned for holy war in Spain Court documents released to the media on Thursday said Sarhane Ben Abdelmajid Fakhet, sought along with five others under an international arrest warrant, was leader and coordinator of the people allegedly implicated But they do not suggest he was overall organisor of the March 11 attacks, which killed 191 people and injured more than 18-hundred others The documents gave few details about Sarhane''s alleged role in the attacks Police say they believe some of the chief terrorists are among the 19 people already in custody Fourteen have been charged - six of them with mass murder The court documents said Sarhane, 35, had been an active campaigner for jihad, or holy war, among some of the suspects already in custody, and as early as mid-2003 had shown signs of preparing a violent act in Spain - specifically the Madrid area - as a demonstration of the said jihad The documents made no mention of the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group, which the government identified this week as the main focus of the investigation It was the forerunner of Salafia Jihadia, which Morocco blamed for bombings in Casablanca in May that killed 33 people and 12 suicide bombers Besides Sarhane, the other five named in the warrants were Moroccans Jamal Ahmidan, alias El Chino; Said Berraj; Abdennabi Kounjaa, alias Abdallah; Mohammed Oulad Akcha, and his brother Rachid Oulad Akcha Del Olmo''s documents said Sarhane had helped arrange the rental of the house outside Madrid where investigators say the bombs were assembled and that four others among the six on the warrant list had been at the house The documents made only one mention of the al-Qaida terrorist network They said Berraj met with three al-Qaida suspects in Istanbul in October 2000 They said he also had ties with Basel Ghayoun, a Syrian who is already jailed on charges of mass murder and of belonging to a terrorist organisation in relation to the Madrid attacks Berraj left his home March 9 and told people March 12 that he was leaving Spain reportedly to attend the funeral of a sister in Morocco, the documents say Subsequent police investigations showed he does not have a sister Two days after the Madrid attacks, police found a videotape in which a man claiming to speak on behalf of al-Qaida said the group carried out the bombings in reprisal for Spain''s collaboration with the United States and crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan The questioning of four suspects who were to have been brought before del Olmo on Thursday was postponed until Friday The names of two people, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Abdelkrim Mejjati, have surfaced in the past two weeks as possible top organisors of Spain''s worst terrorist attack Neither was among the six whose international arrest warrants were issued by Judge Juan del Olmo on Wednesday Respected French investigator Jean-Charles Brisard said last week that Spanish officials saw al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian linked to al-Qaida, as the brains behind the bombings Spanish news media also have quoted Moroccan intelligence sources as saying Mejjati, a Moroccan, was the on-the-ground organisor and had been in Madrid three days before the train attacks But Moroccan authorities told The Associated Press it was not clear what role he had played in the bombings Jamal Zougam, a Moroccan already jailed and charged with mass murder in the case, had been seen as the prime suspect so far Police traced a cell phone found attached to an unexploded bomb in one of the targeted trains to the shop he ran in Madrid Zougam has been linked to members of an al-Qaida cell in Spain