AN al-Qaida-linked videotape threatening more attacks against Spain, singles out the incoming Socialist government for its decision to send more troops to Afghanistan, the Interior Ministry said yesterday.

An al-Qaida videotape threatening more terrorist attacks against Spain singles out the incoming Socialist government for its decision to send more troops to Afghanistan, the Interior Ministry said today.

SPANISH police believe a top al-Qaida operative in Europe put two key suspects in the Madrid bombings in contact with each other and gave the planned attack the blessing of the organisation, a newspaper reported yesterday.

A videotape found in a flat where suspected terrorists blew themselves up gives Spain a deadline to withdraw its troops from Iraq and Afghanistan or face more bloodshed at home.