Barcelona Arrests and Raids
TVE video of Barcelona arrests 14:44:51 080119#042 Name: 080119#042 Title: SPAIN BARCELONA ARRESTS TVE EVF 1230G Type: FEED-LINES In point: 13:58:42.12 Out point: 13:59:38.12 Duration: 00:00:55.28 Clip Locations BROWSE,PDR A Tape ID 5752 Source TVE Notes Dopesheet Barcelona arrests 12:30 EVF Date Shot: 19-JAN-2008 Location: BARCELONA Country: SPAIN Source: ESTVE Shotlist: Raval neighbourhood where arrests were made no. 19 doorbells buildings where raids happened Dopesheet: Police in Spain arrested fourteen suspected Islamist militants this morning in Barcelona in what was described as an "ongoing police operation". Officers from Spain's civil guard raided several address in Barcelona in the early hours of Saturday morning, making the arrests. In a statement the Interior Ministry said those detained were suspected of links to a "radical Islamist terror cell." The raids followed an investigation by the Spanish intelligence services. The police operation is said to be ongoing, with more arrests possible. Local media say the addresses targeted by the police included a mosque. Domestic security will be a key issue in the run-up to Spain's general election in two months time. The governing Socialist Party says that during its four-year term of office, 300 Islamist militants have been arrested. 14:45:55 080119#051 Name: 080119#051 Title: SPAIN BARCELONA WRAP TVE EVNW Type: EVN FEED In point: 14:49:02.20 Out point: 14:51:45.23 Duration: 00:02:43.05 Clip Locations BROWSE,PDR A Tape ID 5755 Source TVE Notes Dopesheet EVNW Barcelona wrap Date Shot: 19-JAN-2008 Location: MADRID, BARCELONA Country: SPAIN Source: ESTVE Shotlist: BARCELONA 1. Vs arrested arriving Police station 2. Vs photos of material seized by Civil Guard MADRID 3. Sbite Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba Dopesheet: Police in Spain have arrested fourteen suspected islamist militants. They were detained early on Saturday in Barcelona, in what's described as as "ongoing police operation." Officers from Spain's civil guard raided several address in Barcelona in the early hours of Saturday morning, making fourteen arrests. In a statement the Interior Ministry said those detained were suspected of links to a "radical Islamist terror cell." The raids followed an investigation by the Spanish intelligence services. The police operation is said to Page: 1 be ongoing, with more arrests possible. Local media say the addresses targeted by the police included a mosque. Rubalcaba said Saturday's raids were distinct from a number of operations against Islamic militants in recent years which were largely against groups that sought to finance radical groups or recruit members to fight. "Here we are looking at something different: a well-organized group who were going beyond ideological radicalism to acquiring materials to make explosives and therefore eventually to carry out violent attacks," he said. He said a range of bomb-making materials had been found including four timers. Computers were also seized in the raid which took place at 00.30 a.m.(6:30 p.m. EDT.) 14:48:41 080120#030 Name: 080120#030 Title: SPAIN BARCELONA ARRESTS tve evn0 Type: EVN FEED In point: 11:08:55.27 Out point: 11:09:56.16 Duration: 00:01:00.19 Clip Locations BROWSE,PDR A Tape ID 5768 Source TVE Notes Dopesheet Barcelona arrests EVN0 Date Shot: 20-JAN-2008 Location: BARCELONA, MADRID Country: SPAIN Source: ESTVE Restrictions: STRICTLY NO ACCESS AGENCIES Shotlist: 11:08:56 BARCELONA, police raiding vs addresses 11:08:57 ms police recovering evidence from address 11:08:59 vs officers emerging with suspects and evidence 11:09:16 ms police escorting suspect away 11:09:35 gv police inside premises 11:09:40 MADRID ms police vans along 11:09:52 ws police vehicles through Madrid police station gates Dopesheet: Fourteen of the 15 terror suspects arrested in Barcelona yestrday - 13 from Pakistan and two from India - have been taken to Madrid for a provisional hearing at the High Court at the start of next week. Police have confirmed that bomb-making equipment, including computer equipment and four timers, was found yesterday at five of the addresses searched during dawn raids yesterday morning in Barcelona. Spanish Interior minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said yesterday there was evidence that the suspects form part of "a radical Islamist group with a significant level of organisation, which seems to have taken a step beyond ideological radicalisation," that was storing explosive material ready to carry out attacks. It is also believed that they may be linked to the five Pakistanis convicted late last year for their part in the 11-M Atocha train station bombings in March 2004. 080121#034 Name: 080121#034 Title: SPAIN ISLAMIST ARREST REAX TVE EVN0 Type: EVN FEED In point: 11:06:00.18 Out point: 11:07:14.05 Duration: 00:01:13.17 Clip Locations BROWSE,PDR A Tape ID 5783 Source TVE Notes Dopesheet Islamist arrest reax EVN0 Date Shot: 20-JAN-2008 Location: BARCELONA Province/State: CATALONIA Country: SPAIN Source: ESTVE Shotlist: - neighbourhood - Bakery of the son of one of the arrested men. - Moment in which the father of Nadeem Ayum Begum is arrested (19/01/08) - SOT Nadeem Ayum Begum, son of one of the arrested men: ''He came here with firefighters. A Spanish citizen wouldn't have been treated like that. He was handcuffed. My father is a very good person. He had lived here for more than 40 years now.'' SOT Hassan Souhair, resident: ''Very sad... I can not say anything else'' SOT Vox pop: ''No Islamist nor Christian ...nothing'' SOT Vox pop: ''I come from the mosque right now and well what I have seen is just boxes not explosives'' SOT Vox pop: ''It means that the future of coexistence will face some trouble.'' - neighbourhood - Immigration and contact day of the neighbourhood. - Mohamed Ih Bal, President of the Islamic Centre, during conversation. Dopesheet: Immigrants living in the Raval neighbourhood in Barcelona ask for calm and tolerance. They want people to avoid the unilateral way of thinking: not all immigrants are islamists. 14:51:06 080125#048 Name: 080125#048 Title: SPAIN TERROR UPDATE EVNY Type: EVN FEED In point: 09:33:57.06 Out point: 09:35:42.29 Duration: 00:01:45.21 Clip Locations BROWSE,PDR A Tape ID ---- Source TVE Notes Dopesheet Barcelona terror upd evny Date Shot: 24-JAN-2008 Location: BARCELONA Country: SPAIN Source: ESTVE Dopesheet: Mohammed Ayub Elahi's bakery was closed yesterday, after he was arrested last Saturday in Barcelona on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack. According to the first report from the judge he is also the head of a terrorist group who was planning to attack the Barcelona subway. The judge added that the group planned to use three suicide bombers to carry out the deadly attack. The report by the Interior Ministry also states that the alleged terrorist were undergoing a training process. The protege witness who was the main trace to arrest this group said that they were close to gaining all the explosives needed for their planned massacre. Barcelona City Council asks for calm. They say that there is no reason to panic because the subway is under control: 2.600 cameras record every single moment and they are changing the wastebaskets for transparent plastic bags. Shotlist: - Bakery - 19/01/08 Arrest of Mohammed Ayub Elahi - SOT Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, Interior ministry: There was some material that was to be used in first instance for the attacks but the quantities were clearly not the quantities needed. - SOT Joan Mesquida, Police Director General: In the next years we will have to face a great number of arrests similar to this one. At least as prevention measure because the probabilities of attacking especially with a suicide profile are extremely high - Security measure in the Barcelona subway 9:34:03 pan to ext bakery 9:34:12 - 19/01/08 Arrest of Mohammed Ayub Elahi 9:34:33 - SOT Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, Interior ministry: There was some material that was to be used in first instance for the attacks but the quantities were clearly not the quantities needed. 9:34:45 more file of arrests 9:34:54 - SOT Joan Mesquida, Police Director General: In the next years we will have to face a great number of arrests similar to this one. At least as prevention measure because the probabilities of attacking especially with a suicide profile are extremely high - Security measure in the Barcelona subway 9:35:15 - Security measure in the Barcelona subway 9:35:22 cctv screens
Punt Cat: The WEB tour in Catalonia this week
Barcelona Arrests and Raids
TVE video of Barcelona arrests 14:44:51 080119#042 Name: 080119#042 Title: SPAIN BARCELONA ARRESTS TVE EVF 1230G Type: FEED-LINES In point: 13:58:42.12 Out point: 13:59:38.12 Duration: 00:00:55.28 Clip Locations BROWSE,PDR A Tape ID 5752 Source TVE Notes Dopesheet Barcelona arrests 12:30 EVF Date Shot: 19-JAN-2008 Location: BARCELONA Country: SPAIN Source: ESTVE Shotlist: Raval neighbourhood where arrests were made no. 19 doorbells buildings where raids happened Dopesheet: Police in Spain arrested fourteen suspected Islamist militants this morning in Barcelona in what was described as an "ongoing police operation". Officers from Spain's civil guard raided several address in Barcelona in the early hours of Saturday morning, making the arrests. In a statement the Interior Ministry said those detained were suspected of links to a "radical Islamist terror cell." The raids followed an investigation by the Spanish intelligence services. The police operation is said to be ongoing, with more arrests possible. Local media say the addresses targeted by the police included a mosque. Domestic security will be a key issue in the run-up to Spain's general election in two months time. The governing Socialist Party says that during its four-year term of office, 300 Islamist militants have been arrested. 14:45:55 080119#051 Name: 080119#051 Title: SPAIN BARCELONA WRAP TVE EVNW Type: EVN FEED In point: 14:49:02.20 Out point: 14:51:45.23 Duration: 00:02:43.05 Clip Locations BROWSE,PDR A Tape ID 5755 Source TVE Notes Dopesheet EVNW Barcelona wrap Date Shot: 19-JAN-2008 Location: MADRID, BARCELONA Country: SPAIN Source: ESTVE Shotlist: BARCELONA 1. Vs arrested arriving Police station 2. Vs photos of material seized by Civil Guard MADRID 3. Sbite Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba Dopesheet: Police in Spain have arrested fourteen suspected islamist militants. They were detained early on Saturday in Barcelona, in what's described as as "ongoing police operation." Officers from Spain's civil guard raided several address in Barcelona in the early hours of Saturday morning, making fourteen arrests. In a statement the Interior Ministry said those detained were suspected of links to a "radical Islamist terror cell." The raids followed an investigation by the Spanish intelligence services. The police operation is said to Page: 1 be ongoing, with more arrests possible. Local media say the addresses targeted by the police included a mosque. Rubalcaba said Saturday's raids were distinct from a number of operations against Islamic militants in recent years which were largely against groups that sought to finance radical groups or recruit members to fight. "Here we are looking at something different: a well-organized group who were going beyond ideological radicalism to acquiring materials to make explosives and therefore eventually to carry out violent attacks," he said. He said a range of bomb-making materials had been found including four timers. Computers were also seized in the raid which took place at 00.30 a.m.(6:30 p.m. EDT.) 14:48:41 080120#030 Name: 080120#030 Title: SPAIN BARCELONA ARRESTS tve evn0 Type: EVN FEED In point: 11:08:55.27 Out point: 11:09:56.16 Duration: 00:01:00.19 Clip Locations BROWSE,PDR A Tape ID 5768 Source TVE Notes Dopesheet Barcelona arrests EVN0 Date Shot: 20-JAN-2008 Location: BARCELONA, MADRID Country: SPAIN Source: ESTVE Restrictions: STRICTLY NO ACCESS AGENCIES Shotlist: 11:08:56 BARCELONA, police raiding vs addresses 11:08:57 ms police recovering evidence from address 11:08:59 vs officers emerging with suspects and evidence 11:09:16 ms police escorting suspect away 11:09:35 gv police inside premises 11:09:40 MADRID ms police vans along 11:09:52 ws police vehicles through Madrid police station gates Dopesheet: Fourteen of the 15 terror suspects arrested in Barcelona yestrday - 13 from Pakistan and two from India - have been taken to Madrid for a provisional hearing at the High Court at the start of next week. Police have confirmed that bomb-making equipment, including computer equipment and four timers, was found yesterday at five of the addresses searched during dawn raids yesterday morning in Barcelona. Spanish Interior minister Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba said yesterday there was evidence that the suspects form part of "a radical Islamist group with a significant level of organisation, which seems to have taken a step beyond ideological radicalisation," that was storing explosive material ready to carry out attacks. It is also believed that they may be linked to the five Pakistanis convicted late last year for their part in the 11-M Atocha train station bombings in March 2004. 080121#034 Name: 080121#034 Title: SPAIN ISLAMIST ARREST REAX TVE EVN0 Type: EVN FEED In point: 11:06:00.18 Out point: 11:07:14.05 Duration: 00:01:13.17 Clip Locations BROWSE,PDR A Tape ID 5783 Source TVE Notes Dopesheet Islamist arrest reax EVN0 Date Shot: 20-JAN-2008 Location: BARCELONA Province/State: CATALONIA Country: SPAIN Source: ESTVE Shotlist: - neighbourhood - Bakery of the son of one of the arrested men. - Moment in which the father of Nadeem Ayum Begum is arrested (19/01/08) - SOT Nadeem Ayum Begum, son of one of the arrested men: ''He came here with firefighters. A Spanish citizen wouldn't have been treated like that. He was handcuffed. My father is a very good person. He had lived here for more than 40 years now.'' SOT Hassan Souhair, resident: ''Very sad... I can not say anything else'' SOT Vox pop: ''No Islamist nor Christian ...nothing'' SOT Vox pop: ''I come from the mosque right now and well what I have seen is just boxes not explosives'' SOT Vox pop: ''It means that the future of coexistence will face some trouble.'' - neighbourhood - Immigration and contact day of the neighbourhood. - Mohamed Ih Bal, President of the Islamic Centre, during conversation. Dopesheet: Immigrants living in the Raval neighbourhood in Barcelona ask for calm and tolerance. They want people to avoid the unilateral way of thinking: not all immigrants are islamists. 14:51:06 080125#048 Name: 080125#048 Title: SPAIN TERROR UPDATE EVNY Type: EVN FEED In point: 09:33:57.06 Out point: 09:35:42.29 Duration: 00:01:45.21 Clip Locations BROWSE,PDR A Tape ID ---- Source TVE Notes Dopesheet Barcelona terror upd evny Date Shot: 24-JAN-2008 Location: BARCELONA Country: SPAIN Source: ESTVE Dopesheet: Mohammed Ayub Elahi's bakery was closed yesterday, after he was arrested last Saturday in Barcelona on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack. According to the first report from the judge he is also the head of a terrorist group who was planning to attack the Barcelona subway. The judge added that the group planned to use three suicide bombers to carry out the deadly attack. The report by the Interior Ministry also states that the alleged terrorist were undergoing a training process. The protégé witness who was the main trace to arrest this group said that they were close to gaining all the explosives needed for their planned massacre. Barcelona City Council asks for calm. They say that there is no reason to panic because the subway is under control: 2.600 cameras record every single moment and they are changing the wastebaskets for transparent plastic bags. Shotlist: - Bakery - 19/01/08 Arrest of Mohammed Ayub Elahi - SOT Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, Interior ministry: There was some material that was to be used in first instance for the attacks but the quantities were clearly not the quantities needed. - SOT Joan Mesquida, Police Director General: In the next years we will have to face a great number of arrests similar to this one. At least as prevention measure because the probabilities of attacking especially with a suicide profile are extremely high - Security measure in the Barcelona subway 9:34:03 pan to ext bakery 9:34:12 - 19/01/08 Arrest of Mohammed Ayub Elahi 9:34:33 - SOT Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, Interior ministry: There was some material that was to be used in first instance for the attacks but the quantities were clearly not the quantities needed. 9:34:45 more file of arrests 9:34:54 - SOT Joan Mesquida, Police Director General: In the next years we will have to face a great number of arrests similar to this one. At least as prevention measure because the probabilities of attacking especially with a suicide profile are extremely high - Security measure in the Barcelona subway 9:35:15 - Security measure in the Barcelona subway 9:35:22 cctv screens
Spain Suspects 2 - Fourteen suspected Islamic militants arrested
NAME: SPA SUSPECTS2 20080119I TAPE: EF08/0078 IN_TIME: 10:26:35:23 DURATION: 00:01:46:05 SOURCES: VNEWS DATELINE: Barcelona - 19 Jan 2008 RESTRICTIONS: No Access Spain/Portugal SHOTLIST 1. Various of cars arriving at police headquarters, some thought to be carrying suspects 2. Entrance to the police headquarters 3. Various of cars leaving police headquarters 4. Wide tilt down of the police headquarters 5. Wide of prisoner transfer bus parked outside 6. Mid of police sign (Spanish) 'Guardia Civil' 7. Wide of the police headquarters 8. Mid of police guards at the entrance 9. Close up of sign hanging outside the building which reads (Spanish) 'Guardia Civil' STORYLINE Spanish police arrested 14 suspected Islamic militants in early morning raids on Saturday, and the interior minister said authorities suspect the men were plotting a terrorist attack in Barcelona. The suspects, 12 Pakistanis and two Indian nationals, were arrested less than two months before national elections in Spain, whose last vote in March 2004 was held in the wake of Europe's worst Islamic-linked terror attack. There are fears that Islamic militants could try a similar plot to disrupt this year's vote, scheduled for March 9. Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba gave no details on what sort of an attack was allegedly being plotted, but said authorities found four timers in some of the suspects' homes. Rubalcaba said the arrests, many of which were reportedly in Barcelona's Raval neighbourhood, were prompted by information from several unspecified European intelligence agencies. Raval is home to one of Spain's largest concentrations of Pakistani immigrants. Spain's leading El Pais newspaper noted that the discovery of the alleged plot coincided with a visit to Europe by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, who is scheduled to make stops in France, Britain and Switzerland in coming days. Officials in all three countries had been alerted. However, the paper gave no indication of evidence that Musharraf was the target, and Rubalcaba made no mention of him in his news conference. Musharraf was not scheduled to visit Spain. Civil Guard officers made the arrests as part of raids planned with the National Intelligence Centre, the Spanish equivalent of the CIA, Rubalcaba said. Five homes were searched overnight, he said, and Spanish newspapers reported that a mosque and an unauthorised prayers centre had also been targeted. Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero confirmed the arrests and said investigations were continuing. Europe's worst Islamic-linked terror attack took place in Spain on March 11, 2004, when bombs went off in railway carriages during the morning rush hour near Madrid's Atocha station. The attack killed 191 people and injured more than 1,800. Twenty-one people have been convicted of involvement in that attack. The Madrid train attacks were claimed by Muslim militants who said they had acted on behalf of al-Qaida to avenge the presence of Spanish troops in Iraq, but Spain's courts found no evidence that al-Qaida ordered, knew about or financed the attacks. Three days after the carnage, Spaniards ousted the conservative party of Jose Maria Aznar, a staunch Washington ally who had backed the US-led war on Iraq. His successor, Zapatero, fulfilled an electoral pledge and brought the troops home shortly after taking power. This year's vote is expected to be close, and observers have said an attack by Islamic militants or the Basque separatist group ETA could influence the results. Since the September 11, 2001, attacks in New York and Washington, Spanish police have arrested hundreds of Islamic terrorism suspects, many in connection with the Madrid attack. In recent years police have also focused on cells suspected of recruiting mujahedeen fighters and suicide bombers, or of collecting money to finance al-Qaida-linked groups abroad.