If confirmed, the news would add credence to claims by terror experts that the Madrid bombers may have trained in JI-linked terrorist camps in central Indonesia.
The British investigation was launched after Spanish news agency Efe reported that seven Islamic terrorists involved in the Madrid train bombings telephoned a JI operative and a jailed radical Muslim cleric in London’s Belmarsh prison shortly before they blew themselves up last month.
The men, mostly from Morocco, were reportedly seeking authorisation to commit suicide, the report said.
Indonesian police found two copies of the Koran in Spanish, another Spanish book and 26 Spanish business cards in raids on JI’s bomb factory in Semarang in central Java last year.
