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Police have arrested seven more suspects in the Madrid bombings, court officials said today.

Mar Roman, Madrid

French security service agents apprehended 13 suspected militants, including one about to flee the country, in a dawn raid today that was launched to track down the perpetrators of a terrorist attack in Morocco last year.

Police suspect that at least six Moroccans took part in the Madrid train bombings as the growing international investigation increasingly focused on Islamic militants possibly linked to al-Qaida.

AL-QAIDA terrorists are training to use a chemical-based bomb which could be stuffed into clothes, pillows or toys and smuggled on board an airliner, it was reported yesterday.

The United Nations will issue a report next week showing Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida militant network has some 800 members ready to strike economic or tourist targets, a French consultant to the report said yesterday.

Five “groups of kamikazes” – 14 attackers in all – carried out the deadly series of suicide bombings in Casablanca, Morocco’s commercial capital, killing 28 people, the interior minister said.

Italian police said today they had arrested 15 Pakistani citizens accused of links to Osama bin Laden’s terror network.