Spain, U.S. to Sign Anti-Terror Cooperation Deal
Spain and the United States plan to sign an agreement to share information on Islamic militants before the end of the year, the Spanish attorney general’s office said Monday. The deal was conceived after U.S. officials visited Spain after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to ask for information and gained momentum after the Madrid train bombings this year that killed 191 people, a spokesman for the attorney general said. The deal will cover only cooperation between prosecutors, and not police, unlike a recent agreement with France to allow police to gather information in each other’s countries. Full Story