Spain’s notorious leftwing judge releases Al-Qaida

The New Australian ^ | October 2002 | Gerard Jackson

[Tailgunner Joe]

Al-Qaida suspects who videoed American landmarks that intelligence agencies believe were used to prepare for 11 September attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon were freed on bail by Judge Baltasar Garzon, who is noted for his pro-Castro and anti-American views. Garzon also set bail at $US146,550 for two other Al-Qaida suspects who have yet to make the bail payment.

Garzon has close ties to left-wing “human rights” activist groups and is admirer of the late Marxist-Leninist Allende. Garzon first came to prominence for his prosecution of Spanish security officials who ran undercover operations against Basque terrorists. It seems that these counter intelligence operations against the murderous ETA outraged his leftwing sensibilities.

Garzon came to international attention when he issued extradition papers for Pinochet’s arrest for crimes against humanity. However, some reporters — except in Australia — noted his selective morality by highlighting his refusal to consider detailed charges made by the Cuban-Spanish Association (a group of Cubans exiled in Spain) that Castro had committed torture, murder, etc, against 600 Spanish citizens. Castro, who was visiting Spain at the time, bragged to a Spanish reporter from the daily El Mundo: “I belong to a species which is above arrest. You cannot compare our two cases.” (Garzon’s confidant and advisor at the time was Joan Garces, communist, Stalinist and adoring admirer of the dictator Fidel Castro.)

Amnesty International agreed with Castro and Garzon by refusing to support the Cuban-Spanish Association’s request for Castro’s arrest, even though it ardently supported the arrest of Pinochet. Amnesty International’s Carlos Salinas has never been able to explain his organisation’s doublestandards regarding Castro, nor have any of its other officials. Amnesty International is now considered by many Spaniards as a Castro ally.

The Al-Qaida incident has once again made it clear that Garzon only concerns himself with the crimes of right-wing dictators, refusing to condemn even in private as well as in public atrocities committed by, for example, North Korea, the Hanoi regime, the Castro regime and Beijing. It now appears that Al-Qaida terrorists have also joined his most favoured list.

[Diogenesis]

What is it with those people?

Spanish Official serially drinking terrorist sputum directly from Egyptian's murderer's mouth.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Sounds like Spain needs to face some military action, too. It's been a hundred years or so since we had a war with Spain. They need their a$$ kicked.

[RGSpincich]

Send the judge a note of thanks and "Let's Roll".

[weikel]

Is this the ahole who put out that warrant for Pinochet?

[Mo1]

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[wimpycat]

Don't judge all the Spanish like this butthole judge. Spain has actually been very cooperative and supportive of the U.S. since 9-11, on the whole, relatively speaking. The King of Spain was the first head of state to visit Bush in the White House after Bush's inauguration. Their current government is considered "right-wing" by the Europeans, which means they are liberal by our standards, but not nearly as leftist as the French and Germans and other countries.

[cake_crumb]

"Al-Qaida suspects who videoed American landmarks that intelligence agencies believe were used to prepare for 11 September attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon were freed on bail by Judge Baltasar Garzon, who is noted for his pro-Castro and anti-American views."

The Judge needs to be on the most wanted list as a supporter, enabler, aider, abetter and comforter of terrorists. Period.

Interesting that it is AUSTRALIA that breaks this story, eh?? Thanks, Aussies!

[cake_crumb]

"Don't judge all the Spanish like this butthole judge"

Agreed. Let's just judge the butthole judge along with the terrorists he aids, abets, enables and comforts.

The Spanish government HAS been on our side in the war on terrorism.

[livius]

Agreed. Actually, Baltasar Garzon (who is very left wing, and whom I normally cannot abide) initially charged several of the persons arrested in Spain last fall with 3,000+ counts of murder, something which was really the only way of holding them under Spanish law and which brought him much criticism.

Spain has definitely been on our side in this, and many arrests have been made with the help of Spanish intelligence and police forces. Much is being discovered about Atta's connections along the Mediterranean coast, and the Spanish are trying to find out exactly who it was that Atta went to see in Cataluña during a brief visit he made there a few weeks before the WTC attack.

Under Spanish law (which became laughably pro-terrorist under the Socialists, and even more so since the advent of the EU), Garzon probably has to release them. But I'm sure they're not just going to be able to swim off into oblivion. And it might be very interesting to see where they go...

[Jacob Kell]

YEs he is.

[cake_crumb]

I hope your take on Garzon's actions is accurate.

[AdvisorB]

Hold on. The overwhelming majority of Spaniards support
America, and our war against terrorism is Spains war
too. Yes, there are a handful of unreconstructed
bolsheviks (garzon et al.) and some useful idiots (garzon
as well) but one shouldn't rush to judgement and conclude
from these pathetic malcontents, that the people of Spain
are not with us. They are with us, fearing a muslim
fundamentalist reconquista of the Iberian peninsula.
Spanairds are ready to go to the ramparts with us.

[SEGUET]

" They are with us, fearing a muslim
fundamentalist reconquista of the Iberian peninsula.
Spanairds are ready to go to the ramparts with us."

Especially if we put the Aztecs on the "evil axis" list.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I hope you're right. Not too long after 9/11, Spain captured some al-Qaeda figure and said they wouldn't turn him over to us if there was a possibility that we might put him to death, just like the other Euro-fag countries (France and Germany have done this, too). I'm not real appreciative when "allied" countries pull our chain like that. Any country that shelters terrorists should be subject to military action, period. As for the dirtbag judge that is pulling Spain's latest stunt, his government needs to land on him hard and get him straightened out or fired (we need some of that here, too). If Spain won't rein their guy in, it should be up to American special forces to put this guy into "early retirement". This guy is just begging to be made an example of.

[Tailgunner Joe]

[Lion's Cub]

Can't be sure, but I suspect this was the three Syrians: Mohammed Hirel Sak, Abarash Kaliyon,and Abdel Rahman Arnot. If so, it's especially noteworthy because

The three were found with videotapes of various possible targets in America, and they apparently served as an intelligence gathering cell for Atta before 9-11....It is also known that Atta's phone number was found in the apartment of one of the Syrians

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/743318/posts

That discussion is about halfway through the article.

[anymouse]

Retro ping. Hope they put an electronic tail on these al Qaeda scum so they can follow them down the rat hole they came from.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for the retro! I agree with you for an electronic tag on all of them!