In Spain, on April 3, 2004, “the police received a tip that the terrorists [behind the March 11, 2004 train bombings] were in an apartment in the suburb of Leganes, south of Madrid. After a standoff that lasted several hours, with [militants] Sarhane [Ben Abdelmajid Fakhet], [Allekema] Lamari, [Jamal] Ahmidan, and four others in the apartment raking the courtyard with machine-gun fire to hold off the police, they began to discuss surrender. Police officers climbed the stairs to the second-floor landing of the apartment, set off a small charge to blow open the door to the apartment, and threw in a gas grenade to force the cell members out. The terrorists then opened fire and detonated their remaining explosives, killing a special agent and themselves and wounding fifteen others.”
– Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, The Next Attack, Page 13