More on the “Librarian of Al Qaeda”

We reported last night on the “Librarian of Al Qaeda”, a recruiter for jihad who was detained yesterday in Valencia. Here’s a follow-up news report on the case from Spanish television.

Many thanks to Hermes for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:


A full transcript is below the jump:

00:01		The police have struck against Al Qaeda in Valencia.
00:04		Agents of the civil guard detained this man,
00:06		whose initials are M.H., and is known
00:08		as the librarian of Al Qaeda. He was
00:11		a key figure in the recruitment of
00:13		new jihadists through the internet.
00:15		“He was engaged in the spreading
00:17		of terrorist activities, in the indoctrination
00:20		and recruiting of terrorists,”
00:23		and in order to reach this goal his
00:25		dedication was total, more than 15 hours
00:28		a day, and he did it from this sixth floor flat
00:31		in Valencia, where he lived with his
00:33		Spanish wife and his teenager daughter.
00:36		The neighbors are astonished.
00:39		“Well, no idea, I don’t know,
00:41		I got to know about it from the journalists.”
00:43		“I’ve suddenly seen some cops there.”
00:45		“I’ve just come down to the street,
00:47		I know nothing at all.”
00:50		He was under surveillance for
00:52		more than a year. After seven hours
00:54		in the flat the agents confiscated
00:56		a huge amount of material.
00:58		The operation remains open.