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Moroccan held on terror charges

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MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- Spanish police arrested a Moroccan man near Barcelona Wednesday on suspicion of Islamic terrorist activities, a Spanish Interior Ministry spokesman told CNN.

The suspect, Abdellatif Nekkavi, was under investigation for allegedly raising funds to support anti-Western Islamic militants in Iraq and for allegedly obtaining forged documents for Islamic radicals traveling to Iraq, the spokesman said.

Police arrested Nekkavi at his home in Badalona, a suburb of Barcelona, at 6:40 a.m. local time, and he was to be taken to Madrid to appear before a magistrate at the National Court, which investigates terrorism.

Spanish media quoted a sister of Nekkavi as saying he had lived in Spain for five years and was a "normal person" who worked and spent time with family and friends.

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