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Al-Qaeda footprints in Spain (Mohammed Atta, etc...)
AFP/Arab Times ^ | 3/13/04

Posted on 03/13/2004 5:20:46 AM PST by veronica

MADRID (AFP) - Spain has detained at least 63 suspected Al-Qaeda members since the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, amid fears the country was used as a rear base for the Islamic terror network, experts said. About 20 still remain behind bars, several of them as part of an investigation into Osama bin Laden's network being undertaken by anti-terror judge Baltasar Garzon, prison sources told AFP Friday.

By mid-September Garzon had charged 33 people for "belonging to the Al-Qaeda terrorist organisation" of which 10 were suspected of taking part in the attacks in New York and Washington in which some 3,000 people were killed. He has also issued an international arrest warrant against bin Laden as well as 12 other fugitive alleged activists. The charges arose from Operation Date investigating a Spanish Al-Qaeda cell which began in 1995 and in which bin Laden's name had been circulating since 1996, Garzon told the Barcelona newspaper El Periodico in February.

Members of the cell allegedly participated in preparing the US attacks, notably during a visit to Spain by Mohammed Atta, the suspected leader of the September 11 hijackers, in July 2001. Others who face charges include Tayssir Allouni, a reporter from the Qatari television channel Al-Jazeera, which has broadcast several tapes purportedly of bin Laden issuing warnings and threats against what he has termed "infidels" and enemies of Islam. Allouni was arrested on September 5 in southern Granada and is on bail for health reasons.

Between November 18, 2001 and January 22, 2002, Abou Dahdah, believed to be the leader of the Al-Qaeda cell in Spain was arrested along with eight other men, according to a court charge sheet. At the beginning of February, a suspected Al-Qaeda member Abdullah Khayata Kattan known as "Abu Ibrahim", was extradited from Jordan to Spain at the Garzon's request as part of his investigations. Two other suspected members of the Islamic network Jaled Ahaled Madalin and Musa Lauar, were detained in southeastern Spain on February 23 accusing of falsifying documents.

At the end of last month Garzon ordered the sole Spaniard held in the US military base at Guantanamo Bay to be transferred from a hospital to a prison in Madrid. Hamed Abderrahman Ahmed was repatriated from Spain on February 13 and is believed to have been recruited by a suspected Al-Qaeda cell in Spain. He had spent more than two years in Guantanamo and had admitted that he had travelled to Afghanistan to join the Islamic hardline Taliban, but denied he had any links to Al-Qaeda.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abdullahkattan; aboudahdah; abuibrahim; alqaedaspain; europeancivilwar; hamedahmed; jaledahaledmadalin; jihadineurope; madridbombing; musalauar; spain; tayssirallouni

1 posted on 03/13/2004 5:20:46 AM PST by veronica
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To: veronica
Rogue ETA/Islamikazi joint operation. Executing the ten basta*ds who killed, injured and maimed a total of one thousand is not good enough.....
2 posted on 03/13/2004 5:23:29 AM PST by dennisw (“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.”)
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To: veronica
Al Qaeda is all through Spain, but particularly well distributed along the Mediterranean coast. Large numbers of Moroccans, Africans and Arabs live in that area, so it is easy for them to blend in.

One of the many chilling things about it, however, is that not all of the members rounded up by Spanish authorities recently are Arabs. Some of them are native-born Spaniards who converted to Islam (and like any good Islamic, also converted to terror).
3 posted on 03/13/2004 5:26:25 AM PST by livius
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To: dennisw
Seem to me, Spain needs to go on a major search and destroy mission.
4 posted on 03/13/2004 5:26:31 AM PST by Clean_Sweep
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To: dennisw
A gal I work with is from Spain. A very kind, gentle lady. Her sister was on the train 30 minutes before it blew up.
5 posted on 03/13/2004 5:28:05 AM PST by veronica ("America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people." GW Bush 1-20-04)
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To: Clean_Sweep
Seem to me, Spain needs to go on a major search and destroy mission......

Some bad teeth are beyond a root canal. They need to be pulled and the leftover pocket cavitated to root out growth spots for bacteria and infection.
6 posted on 03/13/2004 5:30:05 AM PST by dennisw (“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.”)
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To: veronica

7 posted on 03/13/2004 5:31:41 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Drug prohibition laws help fund terrorism.)
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To: veronica
A gal I work with is from Spain. A very kind, gentle lady. Her sister was on the train 30 minutes before it blew up.

Yesterday TV played audio of  a woman on a cell phone telling a friend about the explosions. Then an explosion hits where she is and she starts screaming. (She lived)

Islamikazi scum must die

8 posted on 03/13/2004 5:37:14 AM PST by dennisw (“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.”)
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To: Clean_Sweep
Maybe public executions would be helpful?
9 posted on 03/13/2004 5:46:38 AM PST by hershey
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To: dennisw
Rogue ETA/Islamikazi joint operation..

I don't pretend to know that much about the Basques or their terror organization but, this doesn't seem to be their MO.

This seems more like right out of the al qaeda terrorist handbook.

Now, I suppose there are rogues in every organization and that's what makes a joint operation between the two very possible, kinda like Patriot Games.

10 posted on 03/13/2004 5:53:57 AM PST by evad (Cut taxes again. Cut spending. Cut Guv Regulations. Cut Guv Programs...Repeat)
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To: hershey
Maybe public executions would be helpful?

No 'maybe' about it. I luv to see it.

Here's one place where we could use something from the French heritage.

11 posted on 03/13/2004 5:55:43 AM PST by evad (Cut taxes again. Cut spending. Cut Guv Regulations. Cut Guv Programs...Repeat)
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To: veronica
The people of the West face a dilemma: how to protect the right to freedom of religion and at the same time prevent Muslims from replacing the world's democracies with theocracy.

Unfortunately, a basic and integral part of Islam is the establishment of a theocracy--a worldwide theocracy, with the Koran as the only constitution, the shariah as international law, and dhimmitude for non-Muslims.

Not only are the people of the West intent on preserving freedom of religion, but also democracy, and both are in conflict with the ultimate goal of Islam. Furthermore, Westerners are committed to avoiding the horrible religious wars that ravaged Europe in the past.

Thus the West and Islam are in conflict. These two cultures have definitely collided.

The point of view of Muslims cannot adequately be assumed. Evidently it is not monolithic, but the commitment to world domination by at least some Muslims is the only thing that can be assumed.

From the Western point of view, there is only one way to deal with the dilemma:

Westerners must recognize the fact that Islam is both a religion and a political movement and that these two aspects are inseperable.

As a political movement, it is aggressive, imperialist, resolute, and violent, and it is committed to the destruction of the world's democracies and their replacement with Islamic theocracy. This obviously cannot be tolerated, even under the most tolerant guise of religious tolerance.

Inasmuch as the religious and political aspects of Islam cannot be seperated one from the other, the people of the West must consider Islam to be a political movement, rather than a religion, and confront it as such.

It obviously cannot receive the same tolerance accorded to other religions.

The thought of a recrudescence of past religious wars is too horrible for most people even to consider, but facing reality now is the best way to prevent it.

Many of the people of the world are in denial about this, notably American "Liberals" and European leftists, who insist on praising Islam, on considering it just another religion like all others, and hoping that the problem will just go away. It won't. Many of them assume that Islam will become attenuated, secularized, and tolerant and will abandon its political aspects. There is no reason to suppose that it will.

Sooner or later, the people of the world are going to have to face this reality, and the sooner the better, for everyone.

12 posted on 03/13/2004 6:18:05 AM PST by Savage Beast (Whom will the terrorists vote for? Not George W. Bush--that's for sure! ~Happy2BMe)
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To: dennisw
"Some bad teeth are beyond a root canal."

LOL! Very clever, Dennis. May I quote you?

13 posted on 03/13/2004 6:22:27 AM PST by Savage Beast (Whom will the terrorists vote for? Not George W. Bush--that's for sure! ~Happy2BMe)
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To: Savage Beast
The good people of Spain did not deserve this tragedy.
It is the governments who expose their citizens to the people who believe in terrorism and that Islam should rule the world. People need to wise up.
14 posted on 03/13/2004 6:31:52 AM PST by tessalu
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To: tessalu
And we need to keep our eye on the Muslims over here.
15 posted on 03/13/2004 6:40:48 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: tessalu
The good people of Spain did not deserve this tragedy

The good people of the UNITED STATES do not deserve the tragedys that are now being planned.

If Islam should be considered a political movement instead of a religion, then do the contingency plans now being made include removing all Islamics from the US, and eventually all western countries?

How many people will have to die before we come to this conclusion? Is the figure 100,000 or do we have to live in fear of terror like Isreal?
16 posted on 03/13/2004 6:49:36 AM PST by BILL_C
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To: tessalu
No, the people of Spain certainly did not deserve this tragedy. The people of the West must face the reality that to tolerate evil is to inflict it on the innocent.
17 posted on 03/13/2004 7:05:10 AM PST by Savage Beast (Whom will the terrorists vote for? Not George W. Bush--that's for sure! ~Happy2BMe)
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18 posted on 03/13/2004 7:36:53 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Thanks Val -- http://www.crisismagazine.com/april2002/cover.htm)
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To: Savage Beast
Use and abuse it!
19 posted on 03/13/2004 10:06:05 AM PST by dennisw (“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.”)
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Five arrested in Madrid bombings
The Associated Press
4:14 p.m. ET March 13, 2004

see Civ's favorites

20 posted on 03/13/2004 4:25:39 PM PST by SunkenCiv (next step -- two new Senators for Massachusetts!)
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