At least eight people were arrested in Spain Monday during a police operation against Jihadist recruitment cell's plans to send fighters to Syria and Iraq.
The Spanish interior ministry and the national police confirmed that the arrests took place during searches at 12 locations in Madrid as part of an investigation which has been ongoing since 2008, Xinhua reported.
The interior ministry believes the fighters were being recruited by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), an outfit currently involved in a bloody uprising against the Iraqi government.
Those detained are a Spaniard, an Argentinean and six Moroccans.
The leader of the cell "came to Spain after spending time as a prisoner in Guantanamo Bay after being captured in Afghanistan in 2001."
