A co-defendant told police that a key al-Qaida suspect – who earlier this week called himself a peace-loving moderate Muslim – is a radical who recruited men for “holy war” training in Afghanistan, according to testimony read to a Madrid court today.

A suspected Muslim extremist accused of helping to plot the September 11 attacks in the United States said today he had never even heard of al-Qaida until he was arrested four years ago on suspicion of leading one of its cells.

The man accused of leading a Spanish al-Qaida cell took the stand for a second day today at his trial on charges of helping organise the September 11 terror attacks in the US.

A trial of 24 suspected al-Qaida members, including three accused of helping plot the September 11, 2001, attacks in the US, went into its second day today with the lone native-born Spaniard among defendants again taking the stand.

AL-QAIDA’S suspected leader in Spain went on trial yesterday on charges of helping to plot the September 11 attack by aiding one of the suicide pilots.

Twenty-four men will go on trial in Spain today as suspected members of an al-Qaida cell charged with using their new homeland as a staging ground for the September 11, 2001, attacks.

A judge charged four more suspects – three Moroccans and a Spaniard – with terrorism and mass killings over the Madrid bombings early today.

THIS is the man Spanish police suspect is the mastermind behind the bombings which killed 201 people and injured more than 1,400 in Madrid last Thursday.

One of the three Moroccans arrested in the Madrid train bombings was a follower of a suspected al-Qaida member jailed in Spain for allegedly helping plan the September 11 attacks in the United States, according to court documents.