Byline: John Crewdson
Oct. 1--WASHINGTON -- An Islamic radical who police say claimed to have conceived the March 11 bombings of four Madrid commuter trains that killed 191 people has said he was "working for" an extremist Saudi cleric during the time he spent in Spain.
The cleric, Salman al-Auda, also has been linked to a man accused of being an accessory to the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S.
A senior police source in Milan, Italy, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed that the Madrid attack suspect, Rabei Osman Ahmed el Sayed, said in conversations taped by police after the Madrid bombings that he had worked for al-Auda until leaving Spain a few weeks ...