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MADRID, Aug. 22-- Spanish judge Fernando Andreu Tuesday decided to send to prison two of the 4 surviving terror suspects in connection to last week's twin attacks. According to a Sky News report, Andreu made these rulings after the hearing. The two suspects -- Chemlal and Driss Oukabir -- have been charged with murder, membership of a terror organization and the possession of explosives. They are being held in prison without bail. A third suspect, Salah el Karib, will be detained for another 72 hours while he is investigated further. The fourth, Mohammed Aalla, has been freed because the evidence against him is weak. The quartet of the 12-man terrorist cell responsible for last week's attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils appeared at the Spanish National High Court here on Tuesday. The four suspects arrived at the court at around 8:00 a.m. local time (0700 GMT) Tuesday after spending Monday night in the cells of the Civil Guard Headquarters in the town of Tres Cantos just north of Madrid. Houli Chemlala, who was the first to speak before the judge, is reported to have testified that the terrorist cell had planned to destroy "important monuments in Barcelona" before a gas explosion in the house where they were preparing the attacks left him injured and two members of the cell dead. Those replies matched what he told the Catalan regional police in the five days he had been maintained incommunicado under their custody. | 
