3/11: Trashorras talks to EL MUNDO

EL MUNDO - Libertad Digital ^ | 4-5 September 2006 | Fernando Múgica (edition & transl. J Aguilar)

[J Aguilar]

Following your thread posted on May 18th 2005 Spain’s “Terrorgate”? Investigating 3/11., I highlight the last development on this issue: an interview by Fernando Múgica to José Emilio Suárez Trashorras, published this week by the Spanish newspaper EL MUNDO.

Trashorras, a former miner and drug smuggler, is charged with supplying the explosive used in 3/11 and collaborating with the Muslim terrorists in order to carry out the attack.

He confesses to Fernando Múgica that he always operated under the control of Manuel García Rodríguez aka Manolon, chief drug traffic investigator in Avilés precinct, and that this police officer was the one that asked him to infiltrate in Jamal Ahmidan's (aka Mowgli, aka El Chino) gang. Trashorras remarks that he always acted under the command of Manolon informing him of any event. (This affirmation may be suported by telephone calls between both of them, carried out just after each time Jamal Ahmidan contacted Trashorras).

According to the 3/11 Judicial Summary, Ahmidan and his gang, among others, perpetrated the attack, although their usual activity was hash smuggling.

Trashorras also says that Manolon knew on February 27th 2004, that on 28th a transport of "illegal substances" from Asturias to Madrid (he never says he trafficked with explosives) was to take place. That same day he visited Jamal Ahmidan house in Morata, the place where, according to the battered Official Version of 3/11, the bombs were assembled.

Moreover, he adds he told the Police just after 3/11 that he knew that Jamal Ahmidan had some contacts with ETA, but that the Intelligence Service and the Police were only interested in "involving Moors and putting ETA aside, according to the political moment the country was living".

He also confesses that in 2001 Manolon commissioned him to try to sell explosives to ETA, the deal was not finally made, but nevertheless Trashorras informed the chief police officer about ETA infrastructure in Asturias.

He insists the attack was carried out by Muslims, but under cover of Officials in the Spanish Security Forces: "I am a victim of a Coup d'Etat covered-up under a group of Muslims".

He adds his first testimony was given believing that he was a protected witness, he would not be charged, and Manolon would confirm his role as trusted confident. As Manolon hide the information he supplied him and did not show, he decided to talk to Fernando Múgica.

Although Trashorras suffers a light form of schizophrenia, his testimony was accepted by the accusation and it is basic for blaming Jamal Ahmidan's gang for the attack.

His words are the cherry of the cake of a year and a half of weekly revelations that contradict what it was told to us that it happened on 3/11. If Trashorras retracts, the House of Cards called Official Version might come tumbling down.

Two possibilities arise now, either:

1. If the explosives (Goma-2 ECO) Trashorras supplied were used in 3/11, then we might be before an operation allowed by some Spanish Security Forces members to change the government, that is, a Coup d'Etat.

2. If those explosives were not used in the massacre, as some forensic reports point out, we might be before a huge cover-up by some Spanish Security Forces members, in order to keep concealled the real identity of the perpetrators.

More news on 3/11 investigation here:
Volunteers for the investigation of 3/11
English Thread @ Fondo Documental

More data on 3/11 here:
The Mystery of 3/11 - Part 1
The Mystery of 3/11 - Part 2
The Mystery of 3/11 - Part 3
3/11 Revisited - Part 1

[Tolik]

A followup to the thread we discussed some time ago. Very strange and disturbing, if will be proven to be true.

Thanks to J Aguilar for translating.

[marron]

ping

[.cnI redruM]

I guess Basque ETA left a lot of trained killers on the dole when it laid down its arms. I'm not surprised to see Al-Quaida look these types up as contacts.

[livius]

Thanks for the ping!

This is very convoluted and gets more so every day. Personally, I don't think it was plotted by Spanish security forces. Many of their members did hate Aznar and his party, because he had completely rearranged the security forces a few years earlier, demoting or even eliminating some positions and people. But I would suspect the reason the investigation was such a mess is that the security forces had dropped the ball and were very eager to cover up their errors. And once it became clear that Aznar was going to be pilloried for initially stating that it was ETA - although this was what he was told in preliminary reports - they certainly wouldn't have wanted to go any further in that direction.

I have always been convinced that ETA was involved, not at the final operational level, but certainly in supplying the explosives and perhaps training the bombers (because these were not suicide bombers, but used the usual ETA technique of dropping off the bomb and detonating it remotely). The other reason that ETA's involvement is being concealed, I think, is that the PSOE has always had a soft spot in its little leftist heart for the very leftwing ETA.

[J Aguilar]

Thank you for your interest in the case.

Livius, your analysis is surprisingly accurate. As far we can infer now, two groups were involved in the attack. One put the technology (main candidate ETA, but also Secret Services) and the other was involved in either in deception tasks or they also planted the bombs.

[Cicero]

The treasonous behavior of the leftists in our own CIA make this theory at least plausible. Bush has been consistently undermined by his own intelligence agencies.

I believe most of the Guardia and other Spanish agencies honestly tried to uncover what happened after the fact, and are far more honest than their superiors. But I can believe that there were adverse factions as well, willing to help destroy Aznar's reputation and bring in a socialist government.

[J Aguilar]

One thing that we are sure of, at this point, is that a treason occurred inside the Spanish Security Forces, probably carried out by high rank officials appointed during the Socialist Gonzalez period, which lasted 14 years, and involved in some kind of corruption.

We still don't know the reach of this treason. If it limited to plant fabricated evidence and false reports after the attack, to deceive the Aznar government and the public opinion; if they also covered the terrorists preparations before it happened, as Trashorras testimony suggest; or either if it is all a job of the Spanish Security Forces and maybe some Muslim mercenaries.

In general, it seems that the Civil Guard, a paramilitary force, is far less involved in the plot than the National Police and the Intelligence Services.

I'll keep you update on new developments.

More data and news on 3/11 in Spanish here:
Luis del Pino's blog