He's guilty, but not guilty.
Spain is run by terrorist-sympathizing socialist thugs.
After this, it is their funeral.
De-doo-doo-doo, de-dah-dah-dah, is all I want to say to you.
They're just trying to ensure their trains run on time..
Sounds like a jury of his peers.
and countries like Spain wonder why we won't extradite the foreign terrorists we catch...
Disgusting display of dhimmitude. El Andalus (as is called by Muslims) grinds slowly and steadily toward the oppression of Islam.
"He's guilty, but not guilty."
A "definite maybe".
The new Muslem nation of Spain (just like before).
good luck to them....they will need it.
flaming a-holes.
Spain was initially very supportive of us after 9/11. However, Spain is also totally in the thrall of a leftist media, which almost immediately adopted the New York Times talking points and started to blame us for 9/11. Once the Muslims managed to redirect the course of the Spanish elections with the March 11 bombings and get the Socialists into power, it was all over.
Spain is now firmly in the Islamic camp. There are many Spaniards who object to this, but the left and the Muslims have formed their alliance in Spain and I think, barring some strange and unpredictable realignment of forces, they will roll right over the rest of Spain.
You mean that Spain has given into the terrorists yet again?
I'm shocked.
Sounds like they get to keep him in jail and thumb their noses at the US at the same time.
Red Star over Madrid!
>Abu Dahdah, whose full name is Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas...
Bill Smith, whole full name is Herb Dumblatz....
??
It would appear that Spain has given up her sovereignty to muslim terrorists.
To be posted accross Spain.
"The Status of Non-Muslims Under Muslim Rule"
After the rapid expansion of the Muslim dominion in the 7th century, Muslims leaders were required to work out a way of dealing with Non-Muslims, who remained in the majority in many areas for centuries. The solution was to develop the notion of the "dhimma", or "protected person". The Dhimmi were required to pay an extra tax, but usually they were unmolested. This compares well with the treatment meted out to non-Christians in Christian Europe. The Pact of Umar is supposed to have been the peace accord offered by the Caliph Umar to the Christians of Syria, a "pact" which formed the patter of later interaction.
We heard from 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Ghanam [died 78/697] as follows: When Umar ibn al-Khattab, may God be pleased with him, accorded a peace to the Christians of Syria, we wrote to him as follows:
In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate. This is a letter to the servant of God Umar [ibn al-Khattab], Commander of the Faithful, from the Christians of such-and-such a city. When you came against us, we asked you for safe-conduct (aman) for ourselves, our descendants, our property, and the people of our community, and we undertook the following obligations toward you:
We shall not build, in our cities or in their neighborhood, new monasteries, Churches, convents, or monks' cells, nor shall we repair, by day or by night, such of them as fall in ruins or are situated in the quarters of the Muslims.
We shall keep our gates wide open for passersby and travelers. We shall give board and lodging to all Muslims who pass our way for three days.
We shall not give shelter in our churches or in our dwellings to any spy, nor bide him from the Muslims.
We shall not teach the Qur'an to our children.
We shall not manifest our religion publicly nor convert anyone to it. We shall not prevent any of our kin from entering Islam if they wish it.
We shall show respect toward the Muslims, and we shall rise from our seats when they wish to sit.
We shall not seek to resemble the Muslims by imitating any of their garments, the qalansuwa, the turban, footwear, or the parting of the hair. We shall not speak as they do, nor shall we adopt their kunyas.
We shall not mount on saddles, nor shall we gird swords nor bear any kind of arms nor carry them on our- persons.
We shall not engrave Arabic inscriptions on our seals.
We shall not sell fermented drinks.
We shall clip the fronts of our heads.
We shall always dress in the same way wherever we may be, and we shall bind the zunar round our waists
We shall not display our crosses or our books in the roads or markets of the Muslims. We shall use only clappers in our churches very softly. We shall not raise our voices when following our dead. We shall not show lights on any of the roads of the Muslims or in their markets. We shall not bury our dead near the Muslims.
We shall not take slaves who have beenallotted to Muslims.
We shall not build houses overtopping the houses of the Muslims.
(When I brought the letter to Umar, may God be pleased with him, he added, "We shall not strike a Muslim.")
We accept these conditions for ourselves and for the people of our community, and in return we receive safe-conduct.
If we in any way violate these undertakings for which we ourselves stand surety, we forfeit our covenant [dhimma], and we become liable to the penalties for contumacy and sedition.
Umar ibn al-Khittab replied: Sign what they ask, but add two clauses and impose them in addition to those which they have undertaken. They are: "They shall not buy anyone made prisoner by the Muslims," and "Whoever strikes a Muslim with deliberate intent shall forfeit the protection of this pact."
from Al-Turtushi, Siraj al-Muluk, pp. 229-230.
[This was a from hand out at an Islamic History Class at the University of Edinburgh in 1979. Source of translation not given.]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/pact-umar.html
Not AS guilty.
that zpatero dude is a wimp... he's the Kerry of Spain. Thank God we dodged that one in '04