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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...