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<P><SPAN id=HtmlSummary style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Aljazeera has expressed surprise at the re-arrest of its reporter Taysir Allouni in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Spain</st1:place></st1:country-region>. </SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT size=2>Taysir Allouni's arrest came as a surprise to Aljazeera," said Jihad Ballout, Aljazeera spokesman in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Doha, Qatar.</st1:place></st1:City></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT size=2>"We are convinced that Allouni did no more or no less than pursuing his job in a professional manner.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT size=2>"We have faith in the integrity of the Spanish legal system which we trust will ultimately acquit him of all charges," Ballout said on Friday.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Allouni's wife Fatima told Aljazeera that she was surprised that her husband had been arrested. She accused top Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon of making the case "a personal affair" and demanded her husband's release "because there is no new evidence" against him. </SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: left"></SPAN><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Fatima Allouni said she had no idea why the Spanish authorities should have arrested her husband again.
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<P align=left><STRONG><FONT size=1>Allouni found fame with exclusive<BR>reporting from Afghanistan</FONT></STRONG></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></SPAN><SPAN lang=AR-SA dir=rtl style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-hansi-font-family: Verdana"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT size=2>"They came to warn me so that I could bring him some of his things and his medicine, but I can't go to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Madrid</st1:State></st1:place> to be with him, I have a three-month-old child and I can't leave."</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT size=2>The Spanish authorities recently turned down a request by Allouni for accreditation to cover the first trial connected to the 11 March train attacks in <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Madrid</st1:place></st1:State> in which 191 people died.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT size=2>Allouni was re-arrested for his alleged links to the al-Qaida network, a Spanish judicial sources said in <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Madrid</st1:place></st1:State> on Friday. </FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB>The decision to detain Allouni, a Spaniard of Syrian origin, was taken after a request by the Spanish prosecutor's office which said there was a strong risk that he would try to flee the country before his trial. </SPAN><SPAN lang=AR-SA dir=rtl style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-hansi-font-family: Verdana"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB>He was due to appear before a magistrate on Friday who would then formally place him in detention, the source said. </SPAN><SPAN lang=AR-SA dir=rtl style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-hansi-font-family: Verdana"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P align=left><FONT face=verdana size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT size=2><STRONG>"We have faith in the integrity of the Spanish legal system which we trust will ultimately acquit him of all charges"<BR><BR></STRONG><FONT size=1>Jihad Ballout,<BR>Aljazeera spokesman </FONT></FONT></SPAN></P></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>"They arrested him in the evening [Thursday] at his office and police officers arrived to tell me this morning that they were taking him to Madrid at around 8:00am today," Fatima Allouni told AFP from her home in the southern city of Grenada. </SPAN><SPAN lang=AR-SA dir=rtl style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-hansi-font-family: Verdana"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Allouni was first arrested on 5 September 2003 in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Grenada</st1:place></st1:country-region>, where he lives with his family. </SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB>He is one of 41 people - including al-Qaida leader Usama bin Ladin - charged with links to, or membership of, the network and of using visits to <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Kabul</st1:place></st1:City> to forge links with al-Qaida. </SPAN><SPAN lang=AR-SA dir=rtl style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-hansi-font-family: Verdana"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Suffering from a heart defect, he was released on bail in October 2003 but told he was not allowed to leave the country. </SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT size=2>Allouni found fame with exclusive reporting from <st1:country-region w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:country-region> during the US-led war on the Taliban launched in October 2001, interviewing bin Ladin and later reporting from <st1:City w:st="on">Baghdad</st1:City> on the war in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT size=2>A date for his trial has not been set. </FONT></SPAN></P></SPAN></DIV><p>
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