Spanish police arrested two suspected terrorists with apparent links to an al Qaeda-affiliated group Tuesday but said they had no indication of an imminent attack. The Interior Ministry identified the suspects as Nou Mediouni, 23, from Algeria, who was arrested in the north-central city of Zaragoza, and Hassan El Jaaouani, 52, from Morocco, who was detained in the southeastern city of Murcia. Spanish police worked with their counterparts in France and Morocco to carry out the latest arrests, an Interior Ministry statement said. The two suspects have a "profile" that is similar to the two suspects in the Boston Marathon attacks, the statement said. Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz told reporters that police consider them "lone wolves," like the Boston suspects.
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One of the suspects praised the Boston bombing, Spain's interior minister says
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Minister: Police consider the suspects to be "lone wolves," like those in Boston
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They are suspected members of a radical cell with ties to al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
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They have been in touch with Islamist extremists in Mali, Interior Ministry says
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