Posted on 11/04/2004 12:28:38 PM PST by knighthawk
A Spanish judge investigating suspected Islamic militants has drawn links between the September 11 attacks, the Madrid train bombings and a plot to blow up the High Court.
He says suspects in the March 11 railway blasts, which killed 191 people, helped train and indoctrinate suspects in a purported plot to drive a 500 kilogram suicide truck bomb into the court.
The judge, Baltasar Garzon, has also connected these two groups with members of a suspected Al Qaeda cell arrested in Spain.
He says those members aided the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States.
Mr Garzon outlined the links in court documents that remanded eight more suspects to prison in the alleged plot by the "Martyrs for Morocco" group to blow up the High Court and then attack other landmarks.
The other landmarks include Real Madrid's football stadium.
Thirty men have now been accused of belonging to the cell, which was originally formed in jail.
Mr Garzon has also issued 10 new arrest warrants, raising the number of suspects sought in the plot investigation to 17.
He alleges Mustapha Maimouni - under arrest in Morocco and linked to the 2003 Casablanca attacks that killed 12 suicide bombers and 33 others - is the most recent "emir" or spiritual leader of the cell.
He was allegedly recruited by Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, alias Abu Dahdah, who Mr Garzon has formally charged with mass murder for the September 11 attacks.
Abu Dahdah is suspected of forming an Al Qaeda cell that aided lead hijacker Mohammed Atta when he was in Spain in the summer of 2001.
The judge also alleges Mohamed Achraf - believed to be the original spiritual leader of the High Court bomb plot - pieced together the remnants of a cell originally organised by Allekama Lamari.
Lamari died in an April 3 suicide blast in which seven train bombing suspects blew themselves up when surrounded by police.
In the "Martyrs for Morocco" probe, Mr Garzon also ordered the arrest of a Moroccan man already accused in the train bombings.
That suspect, Faissal Allouch, 34, was rearrested this week.
One of 30 people accused in the train bombing probe, he was released from jail in May but kept under court supervision.
Ping
Welcome to da party, pal!
MV
This can't be...
The 3/11 attack was to get Spain out of Iraq...
Everybody knows there was no connection between Iraq and 9/11...
Therefore, 3/11 couldn't possibly be connected to 9/11.
Let's see if the MSM wants to play ball with President Bush now, or not.
bttt
Oh don't worry, they're pacified now that you voted any resistance to them out of office...
Our country would have to be virtually destroyed before the MSM gave Bush a good word,and maybe not even then.
Can we destroy the MSM instead? ;)
Is it me, or is there a large volume of this type of news coming out after the US elections?
APf
Not a bad idea-----stick with FR and WSJ for all the news-----okay with me.
These guys need to buy some new names.
Too late...Spain already surrendered.
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Ping
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