Moroccan extremist group is focus of Madrid probe

SPAIN’S interior minister named a Moroccan extremist group yesterday as the main focus of the probe into the Madrid terror bombings.

Angel Acebes said authorities will investigate links between the prime suspects in detention and "terrorist groups or fundamentalist groups, especially the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group".

The group had surfaced in Spanish news reports but this was the first time a Spanish official had cited it publicly as possibly behind the attacks.