MADRID, Dec. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- Fourteen Islamic militants suspected of recruiting fighters to be sent to Iraq have been arrested in Spain, police said on Monday.

    The suspects were detained around Seville, Malaga and Nerja in the south, Lerida in the northeast and on the Balearic Islands, police said.

    Six men and one woman, suspected of belonging to a group that funds Islamic terrorists, were arrested by Spanish police earlier this month, and 11 people linked to the same group were arrested in November.

    Since last year's bomb attacks on commuter trains in Madrid, which left 191 people dead, Spain has been on alert against similar attacks by Islamic terrorists.    Enditem