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With Manzano, everything was mixedThe EDU provincial chief denounces that the reports on the explosives were concealed from him LD has accessed new testimonies against Sanchez-Manzano. The testimonies before judge Coro Cillan by the EDU officers who participated in the collection of the evidence from the attacks continue revealing that the former commander of the Central Unit of Explosive Disposal, Juan Jesus Sanchez-Manzano, failed to fulfill the protocol. The person in charge of the Provincial Brigade for Explosive Disposal in Madrid, Jose Maria Caceres-Vadillo, who was present in the collection of samples at Atocha [station] and Tellez [street explosion scenes]...

UPDATE 1-Spain bond sale costs soar toward danger levels Thu Nov 17, 2011 5:35am EST * Spain sold 3.6 bln euros of new 10-yr benchmark bond * Yield was 6.975 pct, highest since 1997 * Just below 7 pct level seen as unsustainable By Nigel Davies MADRID, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Spain paid the highest rate to sell its 10-year debt since 1997 on Thursday, just shy of the 7 percent mark seen as unsustainable, as the country is swept deeper into the euro zone's debt crisis ahead of a Parliamentary election on Sunday.

Judiciary investigation on 3/11The EDU team maintains that they picked up hundreds of samples Today March 11th the judge hears the testimony of 24 Explosive Disposal Unit members that participated in the collection of evidence. They showed their astonishment on certain matters of the investigation. ANGELA MARTIALAY Since the 9:30 hours, the holder of the #43 court in Madrid, Coro Cillan, questions the EDU technicians that on March 11th, 2004 and the following days, participated in the collection of rests in the explosion scenes of the Madrid terrorist attack. The judge has called today Friday –the seventh anniversary of the...

Documents show that Spanish police tipped ETA terrorists to a raid while also apologizing for the "accident." Aiding and abetting a terrorist group is a serious crime in Spain, punishable by jail terms of up to ten years. So if it should turn out that the country’s very own interior minister gave terrorists advance notice of an imminent police raid, and later apologized to them for not having aborted it, then it stands to reason that the government — which has since elevated the minister in question to deputy premier and political heir apparent — is in big trouble, and...

Madrid - Spain may extend its state of emergency for up to two months to train military personnel to take over the jobs of those air traffic controllers who are sacked or face legal action, El Mundo newspaper said on Monday. The army took over air control towers late on Friday...

Ugh… dinitro toluene!The Video that Judge Bermudez Denied the Victims Shows the Lies about 3/11 Unease and disagreement among the official experts when DNT was found in the samples coming from the 3/11 attack. The tapes [recorded by the cameras Judge] Bermudez ordered to install, and that were denied to the victims during three years, come now to the light. [Newspaper] EL MUNDO publishes their content, which refutes the sentence. LIBERTAD DIGITAL Shortly before the trial of the 3/11 case began, the president of the Court, [Judge] Javier Gomez Bermudez, ordered to perform the analyses of the explosives used in...

Yes to the war, but only with Obama.The "No to War” Government Prepares to Send Civil Guards to Iraq After the “mother of all withdraws" carried out by Zapatero and the former Defence minister, Jose Bono, it seems that after the arrival of Obama to the White House the War of Iraq is no longer so illegal, immoral and unjust: agents of the Civil Guard have travelled to Iraq. Libertad Digital The news broke out last Wednesday in the Congress, when answering a question from the [right wing] PP member of parliament, Ignacio Cosidó, the Secretary of State of Security,...

Director of the Police under Mayor-OrejaCotino thinks that the Government is negotiating with ETA again. In spite of which it may seem, Mayor-Oreja is not alone in his belief that the Government is negotiating with ETA. Juan Cotino, former director of the [National] Police, has the same certainty. EUROPA PRESS Juan Cotino, now second deputy president of the Valencian Council, thinks that the [Zapatero’s] administration is negotiating with the terror organization ETA again, according what he told in an interview in the program ' Bon Matí' on Radio 9 […]. Cotino, [...] was appointed chief of a main directorate of...

Manzano’s own witness does not back him.The samples from the 3/11 attack were not eliminated; they were moved to the "TEDAX laboratory" The Courts of Plaza de Castilla [provincial courts, not the heavily politizied National High Court] have welcomed this Tuesday the renewal of the cause against the former head of the TEDAX and his subordinate, the chemical expert of the unit. Although the TEDAX [officer] that coordinated the tasks of collection of rest of explosive was proposed by the defense, he contradicted his superior. OLIVIA MOYA Court number 43 from Madrid admitted a complaint filed by the Association for...

PART TWO From Enigmas of 3/11 by Luis del Pino. Chapter 46 THE FAMILY OF JAMAL AHMIDAN Published in Libertad Digital on September 2nd 2008 For those who still believe, little or much, in the official version of the 3/11 attacks, a certainly striking fact would have to be surprising: the scarce information told to us about the history and personal and familiar circumstances of the supposed perpetrators of the massacre. LD (Luis del Pino) The sentence from the National High Court ascribes the top responsibility for the attacks on the seven persons who died in Leganes, which would form...

Rubalcaba "sees and listens" to the MP who asked for SITEL. Incident between [Interior Minister] Rubalcaba and [MP] Carlos Floriano after a tense row in the Parliament. According to [PP spokeperson] Esteban Gonzalez-Pons, the minister lost control of himself and went after the Popular Party member of the parliament to threaten him “I see and I hear everything you do” […]. Mercedes R. Martin / P. Montesinos When all the reporters were awaiting news about the liberation of the “Alakrana”, Esteban Gonzalez-Pons surprised everyone with a press conference to explain the incident that happened just a few meters away from...

New course in the investigation of 3/11Manzano, Cornered by the Tedax and the Sentence Acquitting EL MUNDO [newspaper]Blow for Sanchez-Manzano. Tuesday, during his testimony, he admitted that he had destroyed evidence from the 3/11 attacks. Wednesday, before the judge, six TEDAX officers [TEDAX: Spanish National Police Explosive Disposal Unit] extended this information. Hours later, a forceful sentence acquitted EL MUNDO [newspaper] and Jimenez-Losantos [radio anchor] on their information and opinions on the matter.Olivia Moya | Luis del PinoThe investigation on the 3/11 attacks has taken a new course. In only two days the actions of the former [administrative] chief of...

By the Association for Aiding of the 3/11 VictimsForceful Complaint against Manzano for the Homicide Weapon of 3/11 The Association for Aiding of the 3/11 Victims has presented Wednesday a complaint against the former chief of TEDAX [bomb disposal unit], Sanchez-Manzano, for omission of his duty of persecuting crimes, cover-up by concealment of evidence and false testimony regarding the 3/11 attacks. ANGELA MARTIALAY Not very often a complaint reflects in so exact form and well related the facts that motivate it as the one written by the lawyer Jose Maria de Pablo. The Association for Aiding of the 3/11 Victims...

MADRID -- A Spanish court is expected to deliver its verdict this month in the insider-trading trial of Telefónica Chairman César Alierta -- a long-awaited decision that could have profound consequences on Europe's biggest telecom firm and Spain's close-knit business community.

Spain’s Justice Minister Resigns By VICTORIA BURNETT Published: February 23, 2009 MADRID — Spain’s justice minister resigned Monday after a political uproar erupted over a recent hunting trip with a judge who is investigating members of the conservative opposition party. The minister, Mariano Fernández Bermejo, was on the same deer-hunting expedition in Andalusia as Baltasar Garzón, a high-profile terrorism judge involved in a corruption investigation...

He was convicted for collaborating with ETAGonzalo Boyé is behind the lawsuit presented against the former Israel defence ministerBehind the lawsuit presented against the former Israel defence minister and six military is Gonzalo Boyé. The lawyer was sentenced for collaborating with ETA and exerted the defense of an ETA member while he maintained the official version in the trial of the 3/11 case.(Libertad Digital) The National High Court judge Fernando Andreu, admitted Thursday the lawsuit presented by the Palestinian Center for the Human Rights against the former Israel defence minister, Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, and six military. He attributes them a crime...

The Court Decided not to Transcribe ThemPeones Negros Makes Public the Complete Acts of the 3/11 TrialThe court that judged the 3/11 case, presided by judge Gomez-Bermudez, decided that the minutes of the trial held on the massacre would not be written. Before this, a group of volunteers from the citizen’s group Peones Negros (Black Pawns) has transcribed the hundreds of hours of video recording of the sessions. (Libertad Digital) Although it may sound unbelievable, the trial on the biggest terrorist attack in the History of Spain ended without a written transcription on what had happened in the different sessions....

The Great Orient of France and Zapatero by Cesar Vidal. November 19th, 2008 Last Friday, I read an editorial in La Linterna [the Lantern] that brought about an extraordinary commotion up to the point of which it has been a true multitude the one that has requested this text. I reproduce it next. It was the year 1801, when in the French port of Brest the first Masonic lodge participated by Spaniards was constituted. Its name was La Reunión Española, and we know that it had 26 members, among them some priests. The goal of the lodge was obvious. Napoleon...

Devolution has been good for Spain, but it may have gone too far THE hardest problem for the authors of Spain’s democratic constitution was to strike a balance between the central government and the claims of Catalonia, the Basque country and Galicia for home rule. The formula they came up with was known as café para todos, or coffee for all: Spain was divided into 17 “autonomous communities” (plus the enclave cities of Ceuta and Melilla on the Moroccan coast), each with its own elected parliament and government. This estado de las autonomías seemed a neat solution. Over the past...

The microphones betray again the president Lara, to Zapatero: “Don’t Burn You Out with These Issues”The open microphones have betrayed Zapatero again. In an episode that remembers the "tensión" on which Gabilondo spoke in the heat of the campaign, [see also this] the president clarified why he helps talking about crisis. "If you instil much pessimism, if you do not say anything positive, it is worse", the president told his host, Jose Manuel Lara, before giving his lecture in the Circle of Economy. The [media] businessman advised him “not to burn him out" with those subjects. The result of adress:...

Today another part of that building in ruins named "official version of 3/11" has collapsed: Without Mastermind The sentence of the Supreme Court endorses, for the three masterminds that the Office of the Public Prosecutor had accused, the acquittal regarding the charges that had been issued to them in that sense. Mohamed the Egyptian, who during a long time appeared as the top ideologist of the attack, is not even condemned for belonging to an armed band, since the Egyptian already is being judged for that charge in Italy. Hassan El Haski, another one of "masterminds" presented by the Office...

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...

Spain's Supreme Court has overturned the conviction of four people found guilty of involvement in the Madrid train bombings in 2004. The four were among 21 people convicted last year over the attacks, which killed 191 people. The court also upheld the acquittal of an Egyptian suspected of masterminding the attacks, because he had already been convicted of the offence in Italy. However it convicted and jailed one of those originally found not guilty. The Spanish man, who was sentenced to four years in prison, had earlier been cleared of helping to supply the explosives used in the Madrid attacks....

Dezcallar Endorsed the Information Ana Palacio Gave to the UN on 3/11 A day after the bloody attacks of 3/11, the then Secretary of State [foreign minister Ana Palacio] obtained from the UN a clear condemnation against ETA. According to what reveals this Thursday EL MUNDO newspaper, before and after undertaking this mission, Ana Palacio confirmed in multiple opportunities that information with the director of the CNI, Jorge Dezcallar. In all the calls, the top person in charge of Spanish intelligence assured that the data on the ETA responsibility was truthful. Now, the one who was appointed by Aznar in...

The Provincial High Court of Madrid has decided to judge four high rank officers of the [Spanish] Police, among them, the general inspector of the Scientific Police Miguel Ángel Santano, for the so-called "boric acid case" on the presumed manipulation of a forensic report that linked ETA to the brutal attacks of 3/11. The court, presided by Judge Alberto Jorge Barreiro, thus misestimates to apply "the Botín doctrine" as it was asked in the previous phase by the Office of the Public Prosecutor, the State attorney and the defence of the indicted ones. […] According to the popular accusation, the...

After a traffic dispute, a young man from Madrid accused the Constitutional Court Magistrate Roberto García-Calvo of covering him with a gun. Nevertheless, the formal complaint was full of false data and was never ratified by the supposed victim. Now, we tell to the reading public how the Spanish Intelligence was behind the gruesome story. The accuser was working for them, as some CNI agents admit. A CNI’s internal source assures ÉPOCA that Vicente Garcerán, the young man who accused the Constitutional Court Magistrate Roberto García- Calvo -recently died- to have covered him with a gun was working for them....

Because of them, telephone taping was carried out a year before the massacre.Two of the Moroccoan Islamist Fugitives Were the Key to Investigate Jamal Zougham Before 3/11.LD (Luis del Pino) The surprising flight of nine Islamists from a Moroccan prison last week has taken an unexpected turn, when it was discovered that two of them, the Chatbi brothers, were allegedly linked to the top sentenced for 3/11, Jamal Zougham, and his stepbrother Mohamed Chaoui, arrested like Zougham on March 13th, but released a few weeks after the Madrid attacks. Although that relation between Zougham and the Chatbi brothers was finally...

Isaías Carrasco, 42, former Socialist councilor, has been murdered half an hour ago in the Basque region, before his wife and daughter. Spain will hold next Sunday the first National elections after 3/11.

The Problem of my Beloved Basque Land by Ernest Lluch September 19th, 2000 The first action of ETA with a death as result has always been considered significant since it has been tried to associate it to a political meaning, a transcendental liturgy and epic. If we asked on which it was the first, some will answer that the shoot by Txabi Etxebarrieta, who I knew when he was an active student of Business, against the Civil Guard Pardines, which occurred on June 7th, 1968. A death that was corresponded with the one of its perpetrator. Others will affirm that...

Published on May 30th, 2007 Two Translators Knock down the Main Evidence against "the Egyptian” Because the Tapes that Incriminate Him "Are Incorrectly Translated"The main evidence that the Public Ministry had against "the Egyptian" melts down. Not very often it has been possible to see so altered State attorney Olga Sanchez. As much, that [Judge] Bermúdez was forced to switch her microphone off. Following a proposal of the defence attorney, two experts in translations that had access to tapes containing the alleged conversations of Rabei Osman in Italy -where the alleged terrorist attributed the intellectual responsibility of 3/11 was arrested-...

Zapatero Before the Clock by Luis del Pino Yesterday, in the program La Linterna [the Lantern] conducted by Cesar Vidal [an Evangelist theologian and writer], I dared to make two predictions: that the campaign of aggressions was going to increase and that the government was not going to wait many days in bringing back to live the scarecrow of the extreme Right, to oppose it to the regional nationalistic and extreme Left violence that the own government encourages. I was not mistaken, not even a bit, with respect to the second of the predictions: this morning, the newspaper [pro-Socialist] El...

An Open Microphone after the InterviewZapatero, told Gabilondo: "it is suitable for us that there be tension"Gabilondo had finalized the friendly interview with Zapatero. Before saying goodbye, the reporter of Cuatro asked the president: "What about the opinion surveys?". Zapatero displayed his well-known mood in his answer: "Well, it is suitable for us that there be tension ". We ask ourselves whether it was enough tension for the president of the government the aggression to Maria San Gil [a right wing politician]. (Libertad Digital) Open microphones have given more than a headache to politicians. In this occasion, it would have...

Bism Illah Al-Rahman Al-Rahim It is certain to me that many Muslims in this country lean more towards the Socialist Party than other political options, but this personal and social preference cannot leave in second term the obligation that is incumbent to all Muslims, to defend Islam when it is unfairly attacked. And in this case, that is, in the case of the terrorist attacks of the 3/11, it has been blamed on Islam, a series of mass murders of which it is certain to me that Islam is innocent. Of course, Islam, like any other religion, can have delinquents...

Still in Control Pervez Musharraf was calm, confident and—despite a flurry of rumors—not about to announce his resignation. Instead, the Pakistani president's "concession" to his troubled nation was an announcement that he would allow Britain's Scotland Yard to help local law enforcement agencies with their investigation into last week's assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. Speaking in a nationally televised address two hours after Pakistan's election commission announced the postponement of the ballot to Feb. 18, six weeks later than had been scheduled, Musharraf was notably deferential in his remarks about Bhutto, often invoking her "martyrdom" and extolling...

MADRID (Reuters) - A Moroccan suspected of direct involvement in the 2004 Madrid train bombings which killed 191 people was arrested on Sunday in Rabat, a judicial source in Spain familiar with the case said on Monday. Abdelilah Hriz, 29, will be tried in his home country for his suspected part in Europe's deadliest Islamist attack, the first time Morocco has agreed to try one of its citizens for crimes allegedly committed abroad, said the source. Spanish Judge Juan Del Olmo recently traveled to Morocco to question Hriz and take DNA samples, the Moroccan state news agency MAP said last...

THE ENIGMAS OF 3/11. CHAPTER 40. THE EMBASSY by Luis del Pino The Moroccan Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Met Secretly [Socialist] Moratinos One Week After 3/11. With the Government presided by José María Aznar still in office and the police investigation on the March massacre hardly starting, took place in Madrid a meeting between the number two of the Moroccan Secretary of State and the one that, one month later would become the Spanish Secretary of State. Neither our Embassy in Rabat nor the Government still in hands of the [right wing] PP had any notice of it. It was...

Operation Noirot, by Joan Valls The fall of the Wall shifted the polarization from the West and the USSR to a confrontation between the United States and France. The 1990’s and new millennium would bring times of fight and less visible speeches, this time between a hard Atlantic axis and a francophony in decay. Neutralized the red danger, the speech moved quickly towards the confrontation with the Islamic extremism; which, in many occasions, was used for the hot war that Washington and Paris fought in different places around the planet. To separate from France has been always a painful task....

From Luis del Pino's blog: Assessment of the Sentence (IX): Dragging the Mistakes The court that has judged the 3/11 case has made the second public writ of clarification of the sentence, where answers to diverse questions related to the compensations to the victims are provided, some allegations to the defence attorneys are responded and... certain aspects denounced by the independent media are corrected. For example, the court could not help rectifying the part of the sentence in which it was affirmed, as Libertad Digital had denounced, that the suicides of Leganés had said goodbye to their families through a...

A Civil Guard Dies After Being Shot in Southern FranceA Spanish Civil Guard has died after being shot in the head and another one is in critical condition due to an ETA attack in the Southern French city of Capbreton. Both agents were participating in an operation against the terror organization ETA. According to sources of the investigation, the terrorists approached them as they went out of a supermarket, and opened fire. The Civil Guards were carrying out an operation along the French Security corps, which inform that the terrorists have run away.

Following the informations I've been publishing on the independent investigations regarding 3/11, I translate excerpts of a long assessment by Luis del Pino.Assessment of the Sentence (1): Defeat after Defeat[...] [It is striking that the Spanish media has portrayed the sentence of the 3/11 case, published on October 31st, as a defeat of the conspiracy theory when the sentence has dropped:] • the intellectual authors of the crime. • the references to the War of Iraq as motivation of the attacks. • one of the four main evidences of the case: the Skoda Fabia. The references to Al Qaeda were...

Men behind Madrid bombs laugh in court By Fiona Govan in Madrid Last Updated: 2:33am GMT 01/11/2007 A Spanish court yesterday convicted three men of murder over the Madrid train bombings that killed 191 passengers. The three received symbolic sentences of more than 40,000 years each but under Spanish law they will serve a maximum of 40 years. Two Moroccans, Jamal Zougam, 33, and Otman el Gnaoui, 32, were convicted of carrying out the attacks on four commuter trains. A Spaniard, Jose Emilio Suarez Trashorras, 30, was found guilty of supplying the explosives. Eighteen other people were convicted of lesser...

MADRID, Spain - Spain's National Court convicted the three main suspects in the Madrid commuter train bombings of mass murder Wednesday and sentenced them to tens of thousands of years in prison for Europe's worst Islamic terror attack. But the verdict was a mixed bag for prosecutors, who saw four other key defendants convicted of lesser offenses and an accused ringleader acquitted altogether. With much of the case resting on circumstantial evidence, the three judges may have been wary after a number of high-profile Spanish terror cases were overturned on appeal. Spain's prime minister said the verdict still upheld justice....

Norberto Bobbio was an Italian philosopher of law and historian born in 1909, who died in January 2004. Member of the anti-fascist resistance, he was jailed by Mussolini during the Second World War. Ideologically, he was a [classic] liberal socialist, staunch defender of the Rule of Law and the Separation of Powers. He was appointed senator for life in 1979 by the Italian president Sandro Pertini, Bobbio was in its time one of the most fervent supporters of the “historic commitment” between the Communist Party and the Christian Democrats, and in the last stage of his life he was also...

Decision without precedents in the history of DemocracyThe Government Bursts into the Supreme Court Challenging Two Conservative JudgesThe State Attorneys have formulated in name of the Government the challenge of the Judges of the Supreme Court Roberto García-Calvo and Jorge Rodríguez-Zapata, to cancel their votes in the so-called "Casas amendment" with which the present president is armoured. [This is] a decision without precedents in the history of the Democracy. From the PP, Ignacio Astarloa, described the situation as "scandal" and said that "it rains on wet" because, in his opinion, it is not the first time that it tries to...

One of the most used techniques of intoxication and propaganda is the so-called technique of the transparent message. The technique of the transparent message is astoundingly simple in spite of what it works wonderfully and it is used everyday at all levels in our life. This way of intoxication consists in hide (to make it transparent) the false message that you want to inoculate to your audience, resorting to another supposed message, that it is utilized as a lure. Once, a good friend of mine told me a paradigmatic example of this kind of technique. It was about an urban...

Who could give the order for that massacre and still pressure the Vatican deal? Only Lucchesi can reach between these two worlds. "Our ships must all sail in the same direction"... Italian politics have had these men for centuries. They are the true Mafia.The Godfather Part III (1990) Let us consider some facts that preceded the Madrid train bombings’ investigation: ONE: December 25th, 2003: ETA'S MIRRORING MASSACRELink hereThe ETA members might have planted two other bombs.A “Preventive Action” by the Police Thwards an ETA Attack in Madrid.The Police have foiled an ETA attack on Christmas Eve in Chamartin Station [the...

Mahmoud Slimane was accused of collaborating with a terrorist organization and forgery. His release means that the panel of Judges of the 3/11 case have found him not guilty of the first charge and for the second the maximum prison term they will sentence him, if any, is 7 years, of which he already has fulfilled half of them. The first charge was brought by the State Attornies as a result of the numerous calls he maintained during key days with other defendants and Jamal Ahmidan, who was, according to the questioned Official Version, the leader of the perpetrators of...

Let me tell you about my motherFrom Enigmas of 3/11 by Luis del Pino. Chapter 13THE HOUSE OF MORATAPublished in Libertad Digital www.libertaddigital.com on October 12th 2005.A few weeks ago, we Spaniards have known the sentence against Al Qaeda's Spain cell, accused of collaborating in the preparation of the New York attacks. One of the persons found guilty was Mohamed Needl Acaid, aka Abu Nidal. Abu Nidal was born on March 1st 1967, was Syrian, as were many of the indicted in that same trial against Al Qaeda. Just as many others prosecuted, he was married with a Spanish woman,...

They made him believe those calls made after 3/11 were from [Jamal] AhmidanThe Police Hid to [Judge] Del Olmo that Contacted Three Persons Close to “El Chino”.Between March 27th and March 30th 2004, fifteen days after the attacks of 3/11, the Police maintained telephone contact with one of the persons indicted in the massacre, Otman El Gnaoui. According to EL MUNDO’s revelations, this information did not arrive to the investigative judge, but the police officers made believe Juan Del Olmo that the calls were made by Jamal Ahmidan, aka "El Chino". Also they hid to him that from that same...

It has only been proved the link Morata-Backpack of VallecasThere is No Evidence to Support the Official Version on the Activation of the Bombs EitherReady for judgement the trial of 3/11, it is still not being credited what exploded in the trains. The chemical experts have only agreed among themselves in one thing: that the explosive cannot be determined. It is not possible to be credited either, because there is no evidence, that the SIM cards that allegedly were used as timers of the bombs, were activated near the mobile phone base station of Morata in the hours previous to...