...sheesh...bit late to be vindicating Aznar now.
Even though that's what he told everyone on the day of the train bombings (i.e. that ETA did it rather than Al Qaeda).
Posted on 03/12/2006 3:31:33 PM PST by johnny7
MADRID, Spain — A two-year investigation into the Madrid train bombings concludes the terrorists who carried out the blasts were homegrown radicals acting on their own rather than at the behest of Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network, two senior intelligence officials said.
Spain still remains home to a web of radical Algerian, Moroccan and Syrian groups bent on carrying out attacks — and aiding the insurgency against U.S. troops in Iraq — the Spanish intelligence chief and a western official intimately involved in counterterrorism measures in Spain told The Associated Press.
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...sheesh...bit late to be vindicating Aznar now.
Even though that's what he told everyone on the day of the train bombings (i.e. that ETA did it rather than Al Qaeda).
I'm confused. Didn't they say they were al-Qaeda and didn't al-Qaeda take credit for the bombing?
"were homegrown radicals acting on their own"
Of course they were.
Who did the investigation the Spanish Three Stooges?
So they elected a socialist leader who promptly made the Spanish army run like a bunch of little girls for nothing? You mean that Aznar was right?
The Spanish government hired "Dewey, Cheatham and Howe" to do the investigation.
Oh yeah, just like the OKC bombing, and the OU bombing, just some local boys kind of discontented!
It was their crack intelligence team,
Los Tres Amigos!
Interesting, as immediately following the attack, a group directly affiliated with Al-Q claimed responsibility....
So what reason do the Spanish have for denying Al Qaeda involvement? Are they afraid of something? AFter all, it was the perceived Al-Q connection that altered the course of the election there, thus inspiring them to act french and back out of helping in Iraq.
This is all a bunch of hair splitting. To think these terorist organizations don't share information, resources, and people would require a great leap of faith.
Looks like the US 9-11 Commission found new work.
Just one of those wacky coincidences, then?
(Either that or Spanish officials have been successfully terrorized.)
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""Interesting, as immediately following the attack, a group directly affiliated with Al-Q claimed responsibility....
So what reason do the Spanish have for denying Al Qaeda involvement? Are they afraid of something? AFter all, it was the perceived Al-Q connection that altered the course of the election there, thus inspiring them to act french and back out of helping in Iraq.""
They are afraid to tell the people that Al-Q* is nothing but a myth...that the reality is that about 110 million muslims want to rape/kill or tax you, cos yer an infidel.
I can just hear the 'terrorists' pleading, 'No, really, we are Al Qaeda. Honest. Here, call them, they'll tell you.' And the interrogators shushing them. And the terrorists squirming because their bosses would want proper credit given for their 'work'.
Of course... we know now who the youth and the majority of Spaniards blamed... and it wasn't al Qaeda... it was Aznar. They blamed their own before risking to further antagonize their real enemy... the real enemy of all western civilization.
"Who did the investigation the Spanish Three Stooges?"
Worse. The Socialist government of scum-bag Zapatero.
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