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Fifty suspected ISIS thugs have been seized in Europe and North Africa over the last three months thanks to British Intelligence.

The haul included five suspects arrested last week by police in Spain, Belgium and Germany.

The jihadi suspects have been nabbed by European security services from at least seven countries in Western Europe as well as north Africa in the last three months.

Two were held in Barcelona and one in Spain’s north African enclave of Melilla with the other two being held in the German city of Wuppertal east of Dusseldorf and Brussels.

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The world leading GCHQ listening posts in Gibraltar and Cyprus identified “at least three” active cells in Spain and Germany, with the possibility of dozens more followers keen to join the warped cause.

A Spanish Interior Minister spokesman said they formed a “perfectly organised structure” acting under the orders of ISIS whose objectives including inciting terrorism and choosing extremists they could ally to their cause.

Earlier this year UK security services smashed one bid to launch an atrocity on packed Spanish beaches over the summer.

Intelligence suggested resorts in southern France, Spain’s Costa del Sol and both east and west coasts in Italy could be targetted.

Just weeks after the European football championships in France, Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhle used a truck to ercilessly mow dow and kill 84 people and maime dozens more.