3/11: Three Years On: the Eighth Suicide Gives Testimony before the Court

He also reveals that The Tunisian talked to UCIE agents.
Cartagena Identifies the Police Officer that Asked Him to Go into the Leganés Apartment in the Morning of April 3rd.

The testimony as protected witness, asked by the State Attorney Olga Sánchez, of the Police informer nicknamed Cartagena has left a lot of question that might change drastically the trial. Some details had been already revealed by EL MUNDO, as the pressure from the Police to avoid mentioning ETA. According to his testimony, The Tunisian was also linked to UCIE Police Officers. Asked by the Accusation Attorney, he gave names: “Enrique, Rubio, Guillermo Moreno that was the one who most blackmailed me”. He also said “Manzano”, referring to Antonio Jesús Parrilla. He recalled that the Police Officer that asked him to go to the Leganés apartment in the morning of April 3rd was Guillermo Moreno, and the he heard that another Police officer complained talking through a phone: “if this moor talks, we’ve f**ked it up”.

(Libertad Digital) The Police informer known as Cartagena denied the previous testimonies he had given before Judges Baltasar Garzón and Juan del Olmo. The reason, he told, was fear. “I was deadly frightened, but now I don’t feel it”, Cartagena has affirmed. “I felt threatened, blackmailed” by the Foreign Information Central Unit (UCIE) of the Police itself. Asked by the State attorney Olga Sánchez, he said that “I did not collaborate voluntarily with the State Security Corps. They were the ones that called me, the ones that contacted me”.

He added that the Police officers were the ones that “contacted” him and “obliged” him to report about certain persons after threatening him to sent him back to his country, Algeria, even when he had already got a residence permit. “Look, do you know that we are the ones the give the residence permit and that we can revoke it even though you were married with the King’s daughter?”, affirms Cartagena the Police told him. The Officers, he said, pointed the objectives of the reports, as the convicted in Morocco Mustafá el Maymouni, the deceased Serhane The Tunisian, and the indicted Mohamed Larbi ben Sellam and Mohamed The Egyptian.

They did not just pointed the objectives on whom he had to inform, but Cartagena denounced that they dictated him what he had to tell on his reports and before the judge. He affirmed that all the times he declared before the National High Court, he was told how to tackle it. About Jamal Ahmidan El Chino, one of the masterminds of the operation, according to the official version, he said that he was “a drug addict, a thief, anything but religiosity, I have seen him consuming drugs before me, he has sold stolen computers to people I knew”. We must recall that Trashorras also declared before the court that he had gone on a binge with him and accompanied by prostitutes.

Cartagena denied that he stopped reporting on The Tunisian’s group because they suspected of him, as the UCIE maintains. The informer explained that in a report it appears that “the group suspects” of him, after asking a Police officer whether The Tunisian did not collaborate with them, getting as a result a “bad look” by the officer. According to Cartagena testimony, a day when he was no longer collaborating with the Police, approximately a year before the attacks, he followed with his motorbike The Tunisian and Said Berraj, that were moving on another one. He tells that they had taken an “important Madrilean street, very long, that takes to the place” he met with the UCIE officers, he saw that they entered and he waited “two or three minutes”. Afterwards, he also entered, still “wearing the helmet on security grounds”, watching the Tunisian sitting next to an agent and another one reading on the magazine’s corner that the VIPS [cafeterias] have. He did not see Said Berraj, and thought he was “in the toilette”. Specifically, he said it was the VIPS cafeteria that was close to Colombia metro station, in Madrid.

On questions of the accusation attorney that represents the Victims of 3/11 Assistance Association, Cartagena explained, that in his reports to the Police, “anything small, such as whether when I was meeting with The Tunisian it was raining or not, I had to tell all, even very small [unimportant] things. He also told the he informed about a conversation in a mosque between the The Tunisian and another member of the alleged Islamist cell in which they talked on “if it is allowed to ask help to non-Muslims”, to carry out an attack. Specifically, on ETA, he says he heard that they told “they won’t do us a favour, they take economic profit because they will sell us explosives and if we say that we are going to attack an Official site, that might interest them, they are going to be very glad because they are going to get an objective without effort”.

Following all this, the informer also tell that he also reported on the relation between Mohamed Achraf and the ETA member Rego Vidal, who he met in jail. “They showed each other their ideology” and the ETA member “provided him with telephone numbers of persons (ETA members, says the attorney and Cartagena repeats it) from the North [where the Basque Country is]", and told him that “if he wants help, he does not doubt to call those persons, because he will be in jail for a lot of time”. But, even though, as he had explained, he had to report even about the smallest details, when he had to declare before Judge Garzón on Operation Nova, his controllers of the UCIE forbad him to mention those data on the link between the Islamists and ETA.

Cartagena told that on April 3rd 2004, the day the apartment in Leganés exploded, was “the worst day I’ve ever lived”. They called me (from the UCIE) by night – April 2nd – and they say to me (that) tomorrow at 7:00 AM we are going to pick you up”. He continues relating that “at 7:00 AM new officers appear at my home” – with whom he has not previously met – and they told him “we are going to carry you to Madrid urgently”. He emphasized that on the car they were driving “crazily at top speed, the travel took from Almeria – to Madrid – [roughly 700 km] three hours and a half”. Once in the capital, Cartagena explained that “firstly we stopped at a supermarket or service station, just for changing the cars, and from there we drove to Juan Carlos park”. In that place, he tells that “we met; they presented me an agent, as if he was an inspector, there were two or three pairs of police officers watching around”. “They began asking me for the same group of The Tunisian, (for) the same people, and I was saying to him: but I already said to you this, I already told you and the agent that already knew me was saying OK, OK, OK, OK, OK as if he did not like that I blamed him for that before the supposed police inspector”, he added. Afterwards, he said that he heard that that supposed police inspector told by the phone: “if this moor talks, we’ve f**ked it up”.

During this meeting, he continues, they told him “there is an apartment in Leganés where your friends are gathered together and they say to me to go there to identify who exactly are, if there is somebody new you don’t know”. All this happened “as late as 12:15 or 12:20 PM” [in the Official Version some reports point as 3:00 PM and others 5:00 PM as the time where that apartment was discovered by the Police]. Cartagena says that he refused to go because the issue “stank” and he was “scared”, because he did not know what was going to happen. “They were sending me to an apartment I did not know, if I did not know the existence of that apartment, they would have asked me, how have you arrived?” he explained. Finally, he said he was glad for not going there, because, in that case “there were be eight dead persons”.

During the interrogations, it was insisted again and again on ascertaining why informer Cartagena was so frightened. He has always repeated that he felt threatened by the Police. So was the issue, when one of the attorneys asked him why he did not reveal the names of the Police officers that “blackmailed” him. Cartagena answered that because he did not know that he could reveal those names, that for security reasons he has always thought it was better to keep them concealed. At this point the protected witness has talked with the president of the court, Judge Gómez-Bermúdez, who has ordered him to tell those names. Cartagena added that he did not know where to go to denounce those facts.

Thus, Cartagena has begun to enumerate the names of some of those agents: “Enrique, Rubio, Guillermo Moreno, who was the one that most blackmailed me (…), Diego, who worked with him; José Luis, lately known as Paco, and who finally gave the name of Josefino, Manzano; I am referring to Antonio Jesús Parrilla-Parrilla”.

He was questioned as well on who asked him to go to Leganés. Cartagena has answered that “attended agents that I did not know, but among the ones I know was Guillermo Moreno, other that I can’t recall and the supposed new inspector. Guillermo Moreno was the one that asked me to go, to tell them who was there and if there was somebody new”.

The informer declared several times that the UCIE officers altered the reports that contained his data. “They –the UCIE- write it entirely and gave it to me to copy it entirely, before they do it by hand, lately with a computer, first they did the reports as they wanted, removed names, added things, added what they wanted, even they added spelling mistakes”, in order to avoid suspicions and afterwards, he signed them.

In addition, he explained that he had all those documents saved “in the Almeria mosque, in some diskettes”, but the agents of the UCIE went to his home, where he was being protected, and told his escorts “leave us alone”, even though the escorts refused. He added the Police officers finally convinced him, threatening him, to tell them the place were he had the diskettes and “urgently” he send his wife to break them apart, in spite of “the escorts telling him: don’t do that, it could be important evidence”. He also said that “in a fake search at his home, they went to my computer and were there seven hours”. The Police took away tapes where he had recorded conversations with the UCIE.

Many of the questions that have been directed to the informer were referring to the informative notes that handled the UCIE with his data. Cartagena has said that they not always fit in his version, but that he signed them under threats and pressure. The importance of such notes will bring to the light more issues during the investigation.

Before concluding the session, this Wednesday, the president of the Court [Judge] Gómez-Bermúdez asked the secretary to “officially state that there not exist the notes 6 and 10. That they existed, but they exist no longer, that is, they have been destroyed”, he cleared. He has also ordered the explanation, which appears in the report, to be read: “the cause of not sending them [to the court] is because they are no longer in the General Information Offices”.

I must emphasize that Cartagena is not indicted in any criminal case in Spain. He is not only a witness, but a protected witness, and has no reason to lie against such high rank security officers.

By the way, Police inspector Guillermo Moreno, was endowed with the task of investigate 3/11…

If I had some time we would see how other wolves -necessary ones, some may say- guard their sheep, and how the modus operandi of blaming the Islamic usual suspects is not a Spanish invention, but it was probably copied from our neighbors.

The Socialist Government has issued these past weeks two checks to pay its debts:

- The release of bloodthirsty ETA member, De Juana-Chaos, convicted for 25 murders, among others, the killing of the American citizen Eugene Kent Brown on September 9th 1985 with a car bomb that targeted a Civil Guard vehicle.

- A sentence of the Supreme Court grants Media Oligarch Polanco the control of most of the Spanish Radio Channels (his corporation already owns 420, one for each 100,000 Spaniards). This sentence has been possible thanks to a new law passed by Zapatero’s government.

Polanco’s SER radio channel gave the final push against Aznar’s government on the night of 3/11 when it broadcasted that a suicide bomber had been found in the trains, which is simply as false as the capital evidence in the 3/11 case.

Media Oligarch Polanco, who made his fortune under Franco’s rule and since his death has become the shadow of the Spanish Socialist Party, refused to pass under a metal detector arch when he went to the court in his second wife separation process saying: “I am Jesús Polanco, these gentleman are my escorts and I don’t walk under the arch”.

The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

The people seeking the truth on 3/11 have received good news from Holland. A TV documentary on 3/11 portrayed both sides: the old Official Version, now Official Conspiracy Version (at least until new evidence is fabricated), and the one that says that the attack has not been properly investigated. It is said Cebrián’s interview (one of the Polanco’s henchmen), showing his fascist ways, had a deep impact among the Low Countries’ audience.

Finally, yet another massive demonstration assembling two million people, this time promoted by the right wing Popular Party under the motto, Spain For Freedom, No More Concessions to ETA, took place yesterday in Madrid:

To: JerseyHighlander; Incorrigible; Tolik; GladesGuru; marron; .cnI redruM; livius; billorites; Wiz; ...

After the testimonies of the indicted ones, the witnesses are providing a lot of new data on the cover-up surrounding 3/11.

Doubly unfortunate that Mr. Bean got elected because of this murderous act now being covered up.

3 posted on 03/11/2007 12:03:48 PM PDT by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)

I am afraid the problem with Mr. Bean is that he is so used of winning without effort that he thinks he is above the rest of mortals.

Luis del Pino's weekly programm on Libertad Digital TV on the trial of 3/11.

Watch here (in Spanish)

Here are some pictures of the memorial:

Personally consider it pretty ugly, but the organizers did decently with the symbolism: it's located outside the train station that all of those trains were headed to; and messages are etched in glass (carved in stone) on the inside of the memorial.

5 posted on 03/11/2007 1:11:03 PM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)

Jedi Master,

I think there is no better memorial than not allowing those +200 people to die in vain, firstly not allowing ETA and the Socialist Party, and all their oligarcs, to achieve the final victory, and then teaching them that new limits have been set, that the mass of Spaniard has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God..

That would be, a design based on the bravery of a few men and women, their best memorial.

Looks like a big roll of chickenwire from a distance.

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