MADRID (AFP)--Spain's top anti-terrorism judge has asked five nations, including the United States, for leads on the whereabouts of a suspected Al-Qaeda leader reportedly held in a secret US jail, a court official said Monday.
Judge Baltasar Garzon wants to extradite Syrian-born Spaniard Mustafa Setmarian, accused of involvement in the attacks of September 11, 2001, and planning the 2004 Madrid train bombings, to Spain, the court official said.
Setmarian was indicted in 2003 by Garzon and is wanted on a Spanish arrest warrant.
Garzon accused Setmarian of helping to organize one of the first Al-Qaeda-type cells in Spain in the mid-1990s. Garzon asked for information regarding his whereabouts from Afghanistan, Britain, Pakistan and Syria as well as from Spanish police and Interpol, in addition to the United States, the official said. Setmarian was captured in Pakistan at the end of 2005.
He is being held at a secret prison operated by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, Spanish newspaper El Pais has reported, citing Pakistani and European security service officials.
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Huston we have a problem. Some of the detainees are listed as missing but we tortured them to death and didn't want to admit it. So Spain might be one of the unlucky ones this time. Look we tortured detainees so bad 7 are insane and if the World saw they we'd be in trouble not to meantion the one's we killed. Let's see how this one turns out. As Obama is in a pickel with his decision on weather detainees can charge the US with illegally being tortured.
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