Spain: Police nab Canadian linked to terror cell

Spanish police have arrested a Canadian man suspected of helping finance Islamist terrorist activities, authorities said on Monday. The 61-year-old man, identified as Brian David Anderson, is wanted by US authorities for fraud and is believed to have helped finance a training camp in Afghanistan, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. He was arrested in a Madrid hotel thanks to joint collaboration with the FBI, the ministry said. It also added Anderson is thought to be linked to a New York businessman called Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari, 53, who is currently being tried on terrorism charges in the United States.