Spanish Supreme Court Acquits 5 Madrid Bombers

All Headline News ^ | July 17, 2008 | Vittorio Hernandez

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Madrid, Spain (AHN) - The Spanish Supreme Court decided on Thursday to acquit five bombers in the 2004 Madrid commuter train blast which killed 191 people and injured 1,800.

An Egyptian, Rabei Osman, was acquitted due to double-jeopardy provisions, he has already been sentenced to an eight-year prison term in Italy. The court said there was insufficient evidence to charge him with mass murder.

The court likewise upheld the acquittal of Basel Ghalyoun, Muhammad Almallah Dabas, Abdelilah el Fadual el Akil and Raul Gonzalez, all of whom had convictions ranging from five to 12 year prison terms.

The sentence of several suspects were reduced, while Antonio Toro was convicted of swapping the explosives used in the attack for drugs and money and sentenced to four years. A second convicted mastermind, Othman el Gnaoui, was cleared of falsification, but was kept in prison for more serious charges.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Oh. My. God.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Good lord.

[paudio]

This probably is a way to reward them for handing the government from Aznar to the socialists.

[Little Ray]

Old Europe is sooooo doomed.

[Dog Gone]

This is the kind of thing that could turn Spanish election results back to sane.

[Travis McGee]

Spanish cathedrals will be mosques by mid-century.

El Cid is really dead this time.

[Fox_Mulder77]

This is the kind of thing that could turn Spanish election results back to sane

I don't know anything about the Spanish people, but this seems like what they want. They voted a government in that they knew would do this.... why would they now vote this government out?

[river rat]

Spain must have enjoyed their last enslavement by the Islamists - to be behaving so cowardly and foolishly....

[Mr_Moonlight]

An Egyptian, Rabei Osman, was acquitted due to double-jeopardy provisions, he has already been sentenced to an eight-year prison term in Italy

HUH? Lookie, he either did the dirty deed or he didn't, there is no "double-jeopardy" in the WOT. Eight years is not enough, this scum needs to meet 72 virgin fire-n-brimstone residents down south ....

[TruthFactor]

The Western World is committing suicide before our very eyes.

Keep your powder dry folks.

[aft_lizard]

Let’s see, Aznar was in a tight down to the wire election with a harccore leftist. A bomb explosion kills 191 Spaniards days before the election. Leftist gets on TV blames Aznar and his policies and his slow reaction and gets the essential bump needed to overcome Aznar. Terrorists that are caught are not convicted. I think the leftist planned this all along.

[crazyhorse691]

Mass murderers in the new Europe now get lighter sentences than the eco-terrorists here in the US...unbelievable!!!

[Dog Gone]

The Spanish people voted in the current government, not by much, in a backlash against the Madrid bombings. It was an emotional and irrational election mindset.

People do change their minds. It’s why we have had Pelosi as House Speaker for the past couple of years. Events can change voter thinking.

[MaxMax]

The flood gates of Gitmo will open if Obama gets the office.
It is what it is.

[monkeycard]

Cowards!

[Levante]

“This probably is a way to reward them for handing the government from Aznar to the socialists.”

Either that or the “Spanish authorities” are scared sh#tless of muslim scumbag terrorists.

Or both.

[Levante]

“The Western World is committing suicide before our very eyes.”

Maybe once the Western world looses a city or two...it will wake the f**k up...

[Tallguy]

Not quite. Anzar’s government intially thought the bombing was the work of Basque separatists from ETA. When it became apparent that this was not true there was a tremendous backlash against his government.

Now to think that the attack might have been the work of a terrorist group that has been fighting Spanish Governments since anybody can remember is not an unreasonable position, or a theory to lightly dismiss. But he was wrong about the attack & that was all that was needed.

Politically-speaking what happened with the Madrid Bombing roughly parallels what our own Dems have done to GWB over the pre-War WMD claim.

The obscenity of it all is that the Socialist Spanish Government turns right around & releases the Islamic bombers. I guess we can look forward to the Democrats closing Gitmo & sending the inmates home with our sincere apologies.

[Eagles6]

The reconquista of the reconquista.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Unbelievable!....

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Now where will they show up with a bomb?....What the hells the matter with the idiots of socialist Europe?

[kickonly88]

If Obama gets elected he might have ex Gitmo detainees in his cabinet.

[muawiyah]

You probably have the timeline nailed ~ Leftwingtards (aka Socialists in Spain) planned it. Islamofascists did the job.

Same thing with the Anthrax attack in the US. It's pretty cear that a fairly large segment of American Leftwingtard professionals planned it, got the stuff they needed, and then passed it along to the Islamofascists to make the hit.

They've probably done it this way in other situations as well.

Time to call Barbara Hatch Rosenberg in for a talk; maybe even Obama's little friends too.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Mass murderers in the new Europe now get lighter sentences than the eco-terrorists here in the US...unbelievable!!!

I would not have believed this travesty possible.

[CharlesWayneCT]

A report a day or two ago said Spain’s economy was collapsing.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer former ally.

[redstateconfidential]

Spain is Osama’s BIT*H

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

[Molly T.]

I so agree....and in my humble opinion...we can look at Europe and see what's ahead for our dear country...all with the deliberate help of our own government. What a bunch of thieving, deceivers we have allowed to get into positions of power...in our Congress, courts...you name it...it's appalling.

[J Aguilar]

After this second sentence on 3/11, only three people are convicted regarding the Madrid Train Bombinngs, Jamal Zougham and Otman El Ganoui, both Muslims; and the Christian miner Trashorras, for supplying the explosives. The rest were convicted for belonging to a terror organization or trafficking with explosives, but not for the attack itself.

Neither Zougham nor El Ganoui were Islamists.

Many Spaniards still don't swallow the official version on the attacks, full of contradictions, and have constituted themselves in an association whose members examine all the official and unofficial documents and information on the case, the Peones Negros. You can check a video on the issue here.

Furthermore, you may check the contradictions on the case here: Search @ Freerep or just clicking on my name.

Regarding Aznar's administration on ETA as perpetrators, you can check this:

The Chief of the Spanish Intelligence During 3/11, New Ambassador in the US

Finally, regarding the evidence against Rabei Osman, the Egyptian, you got this:

3/11: An Italian Job

We report, you decide.

[wardaddy]

unless someone makes a new movie soon that last line will be lost on most here..

[sheik yerbouty]

All bought and paid for with the blood of the innocent..

[J Aguilar]

3/11, an attack without suicide bombers, is based in a previous one: the Bologna massacre.

They have used the same tactics, although the Italians were lucky for having a truly independent third branch.

[Little Ray]

I don’t have an effin’ clue.
Was this an Islamacist op, an ETA op, or an internal coup?

[muawiyah]

So, a conclusion here might be that Aznar brought in Italian commies to make sure the job got done.

[Travis McGee]

I knew the folks I care about here would get it.

[J Aguilar]

Good question. The attack has no Islamic characteristics, as you can read here:

3/11: The Non-Existent Islamist Character of the Atrocity

ETA did participate in 3/11, although not as perpetrator, but in a previous disinformation campaign, as you can read here:

3/11: The Disinformation Campaign

I think it was an inside job, probably carried out by mercenaries under cover of officials of the Spanish security forces. Surprisingly, Frank Gaffney Jr. pointed out something very similar before we knew a lot of evidence suggesting this, as you can read here:

Spain’s “Terrorgate”?

[reagan_fanatic]

This isn't just acquiescing to terrorism, this is dropping your pants and bending over.

Woe be to Europe if they don't wake up!

[J Aguilar]

No, because the Italian oligarchies behind the Bologna train station massacre are the same to whom Socialist Zapatero, the Spanish prime minister after 3/11, gave the control of the Spanish energy giant ENDESA breaking the Rule of Law, as you can read here:

Spain broke law in Endesa bidding, EU court says

[Levante]

Gracias por la informaccion, J Aguilar.

Odio a los sucios que atacaron a su pais.