MADRID, Dec 24: A Spanish judge has jailed six people on suspicion of recruiting Islamic radicals to be sent as suicide bombers or fighters to Iraq, Chechnya or Kashmir, according to a court official.

The six were among 16 people arrested on Monday in raids around Spain. Another two people surrendered after learning police were looking for them.

After Monday’s arrests, the interior ministry said the suspects recruited and indoctrinated people who were then sent to wage ‘holy war’ in Iraq as members of Al Qaeda.

It said the group — whose members were born in Iraq, Belarus, Ghana, Spain, Morocco, Egypt, France, Algeria and Saudi Arabia — had two fighters ready to be sent to Iraq when they were arrested.

High court Judge Fernando Andreu issued an order, accusing three of the men of belonging to a terrorist organization and another three of cooperation with an armed group.—-Reuters