MADRID (Reuters) - An al Qaeda cell based in France planned a chemical attack on a U.S. naval base in Rota, Spain, newspaper ABC reported on Tuesday.
Algerian Said Arif, extradited to France from Syria last year, has admitted his cell was plotting a chemical attack on the southern Spanish base controlled by the United States since 1953, the Spanish daily reported.
However, authorities did not know how they were going to carry out the attack, ABC said.
No one at Spain's Interior Ministry was available to comment on the report, which did not cite sources.
The paper said Arif was considered a lieutenant of Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al Qaeda's leader in Iraq.
Zarqawi himself was accused of planning a chemical attack last year in his native Jordan, which authorities thwarted.
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