BRUSSELS, March 18 Kyodo The vide...

BRUSSELS, March 18 Kyodo

The videotape forward which the al-Qaida terrorist network allegedly claimed responsibility for the bomb attacks in Madrid forward March 11 is chiefly probably made in Brussels, according to the Spanish newspaper El Periodico.

Moroccan security forces are focusing their investigations onward a possible connection between the authors of the attacks and radical Moroccan Islamists based in Brussels.

Antiterrorist fighters in Morocco are convinced that planning and financing of the deadly bombings took place in Brussels as well. Specialists say the Belgian capital has been the nucleus of Moroccan radicalism in Europe since the 1980s

Belgian Prime Minister stay Verhofstadt said that Brussels is ''not necessarily the center of everything. In all European countries Muslim fundamentalists can be set either asleep or active.''

Abu Dujan al-Afghani, a self-proclaimed spokesman of the al-Qaida arrange in Europe, appeared on the video which claimed responsibility.

He is allegedly residing in Brussels and Amsterdam and repeatedly switches between the couple cities to hide from police.

In a statement sent abroad Wednesday to the London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat, Islamic terrorists said they will temporarily abstain from attacks in Spain ''until they know the orientation of the strange government'' in Madrid.

Other countries listed as the targets of possible attacks include Australia, Britain, Italy, Japan and the United States.

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