The Islamist extremist group, al-Qaeda, ordered attacks on Europe in a May 29 internet message that the Spanish secret service forwarded to their British counterparts at the weekend, reported a Spanish newspaper on Monday. The Spanish national intelligence centre sent a copy of the Arabic-language message - signed by "Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades - European division" - on Saturday to the British intelligence service MI5, and it was also published on Saturday by the daily El Mundo. The message, entitled "Letter to Mujahedeen in Europe", stated in part: "We now call on the mujahedeen around the world to launch the expected attack".El Mundo wrote that Spanish intelligence officials believed this was a reference to the attacks in London last Thursday. The newspaper reported that the Spanish secret service had been examining the statements of the European division of Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades, named after an al-Qaeda leader who was killed in Afghanistan, since the Madrid bombings.