Madrid - The Islamic terrorist groups operating in Europe could have contacts in Ireland as well as Spain, England, France, Italy and Germany, reports Jane Walker. A diary found in the home of one of the six Algerians, believed to have links with Osama bin Laden, who were arrested in Spain this week showed what is believed to be an itinerary, or potential recruitment sites for terrorists in these countries. Police also found 32 videotapes with gruesome details of terror attacks, training camps in Chechenya and Afghanistan and instructions on the use of explosives.
The diary, written in a mixture of badly-spelled French, Spanish and a dialect used in parts of Algeria, illustrated with childish matchstick figures, was found in the apartment of Mohamed Beleziz in Cascante, northern Spain.
An Arab linguist said the writer was a person with little education or someone attempting to encode his entries. One page shows figures waving flags of different nations, not all of them named, although one is clearly the Irish tricolour, with Irlande written below. Others can be identified as the Union flag by the word Londres; the Spanish flag is Espagne with the word aqui (here), and the last one is that of Algeria.