By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
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.
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