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MADRID (Reuters)

A suspected al Qaeda leader, accused of being involved in September 11 and planning the 2004 Madrid train bombings, has been imprisoned in a secret U.S. jail for the past year, Spain’s El Pais newspaper reported on Sunday.

Mustafa Setmarian, 48, a Syrian with Spanish citizenship, was captured in Pakistan in October 2005 and is held in a prison operated by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, Pakistani and European security service officials told El Pais.

A spokesman for the U.S. embassy in Spain declined to comment on the report.

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From July, 2005

MADRID, Spain

Spanish officials have downplayed British press reports that a Syrian-born Spaniard — Mustafa Setmarian Nasar — who is linked to al Qaeda activities and the Madrid train bombings, was also behind the London bombings last week.

“That is not a fact that has been even minimally confirmed,” Spain’s secretary of state for security, Antonio Camacho, said at a public appearance in the town of El Escorial, near Madrid, on Monday.

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