Suspect in Madrid Bombing Lived in Germany

"Spiegel-Online" ^ | March 25, 2004 | "Spiegel-Online"

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March 25, 2004

TERRORIST ATTACKS IN MADRID

Suspect from Hesse Arrested

In the investigation into the terrorist attacks in Madrid, authorities have hit upon their first clues leading to Germany. At least one of the three suspects Spanish police arrested on Wednesday shall have lived for years in Hesse. Chief Federal Prosecutor Nehm has taken up the case.

AP

Arrests in Madrid: Clues leading to Germany?

Hamburg - The Spanish police have come a step further in the search for the ringleaders of the attacks on three commuter trains in Madrid. As the Spanish Department of the Interior announced on Thursday evening, three more persons have been  arrested.

The suspects from Northern Africa shall have been picked up in the greater Madrid area. One of the men is a Moroccan who has lived in a large Hessian city for quite some time. Spanish investigators have only confirmed that one of the suspects was registered occasionally in Germany. According to the "Welt", the man was  registered by the authorities as a particularly violent and dangerous, islamic criminal. With the most recent arrests, 19 suspects are in police custody

According to a correspondent from ARD, though, the five men arrested so far are only suspected of having supplied logistical help for the devastating attacks on March 11. This report hasn't been confirmed thus far, though.

The news station n-tv reported, referencing secret service circles, that the attacks shall have also been prepared for in Germany. A spokeswoman for the Federal Criminal Investigation Agency in Wiesbaden declined to comment on it this evening. In explaining her reasons, she referred to the on-going preliminary investigation by the Chief Federal Prosecutor in connection with the attacks in Madrid. Chief Federal Prosecutor Kay Nehm has taken up the case.

The bomb attacks killed 190 people on four suburban trains in Madrid, more than 1500 were injured. On Wednesday evening examining magistrate Juan Del Olmo issued warrants against two further suspects. Among them was, for the first time, a woman. The newspaper "El Mundo" reported that the Moroccan Naima Oulad may be able to provide possibly important information for the investigators in their search for the terrorists.

The police assume that the woman knows all the terrorists who had been involved in the attacks. A brother of the Moroccan is in police custody and should be brought before the examining magistrate on Friday. The woman herself denied having any thing to do with the attacks.

Moroccan terror experts assume that the Jordanian Abu Musab Sarkawi could have given the order for the attacks. At present the follower of terrorist chief Osama bin Laden is participating, according to information from the Spanish newspaper "El País", in armed actions against the occupation forces in Iraq. The Moroccan Abdelkarim Mejjati could have functioned as the intermediary between Sarkawi and the terror command in Madrid. The 36-year-old shall have been involved in the attacks in May 2003 in Casablanca with 45 dead, then went underground.

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[An.American.Expatriate]

And just how do the SECRET protocols have ANY bearing on the PROVEN guilt of the suspect?? AND the court overtuned the conviction BASED on that letter and that letter alone.

The other was aquitted on the same basis.

So, you also think it is okay that the EU harbours KNOWN terrorists??

[sibbel]

That is the question in any criminal hearing...
Now you again suggest that the EU is harbouring known terrorists....

I have never stated anything like that...
I am against detention without a fair trial...in a fair trial anyone has the right to defend themselves...

One of them was proven guilty and accordingly detained.
The second was not proven to be guilty, there was no evidence of his participation in the attacks. So as long as PROVEN otherwise he is a suspect not a convicted PROVEN terrorist. EVERYONE IS THE SAME BEFORE THE LAW - A PRINCIPAL THAT HAS TO BE VALID FOR TERROR SUSPECTS AS WELL!!!!

IF someone is a known terrorist, and some other country issued a warrant he has to be delivered...if we can trie him, we will do so, if he is allready convicted there is no reason not to deliver him (is extradite the right term here?)

You still did not explain me the connection between the Bank robberies and the terrorists!

[An.American.Expatriate]

The EU is harbouring known terrorists - namely the "Church of the Nativity" Terrorists - one of whom has robbed and bombed banks in the Netherlands. (I do assume though that he is in jail for these crimes. Kidnapping Christians and Jews in Bethlehem was apparently not sufficient grounds for his incarceration.) [BTW - auf Deutsch Geburtskircheterroristen)

Europe choses to handle terrorism as a criminal act. The terrorists have declared war on the west, and Europe choses to fight them with cops and the courts - great for catching the perpetrators, but rotten against preventing future acts. The cops / the courts DO NOT prevent terrorism, just as they do not prevent crimes from being committed.

To the two terrorists tried in Hamburg - one was tried, convicted, and then the conviction overturned - the other aquitted, althougn the judges said he was probably guilty. Both were "freed" based on a note which - contrary to what is gernerally said - stated nothing more than "no one knew the targets except for myself (Binalshib) and the Pilots." It has not even been proven that the note in question is from Binalshib - thus "evidence" has been created out of thin air.

The EU will NEVER deliver a known terrorist to the US for trial because the death penalty could be imposed.

The effectiveness of the German Courts in trying terrorists accused of plotting attacks outside of Germany is now quite renowned.

[sibbel]

Some truth in your words, but also plotting terrorist acts or simply belonging to a terrorist network is enough to be send to jail for...
And as you might know, terrorists, such as RAF members habe been imprisoned for long terms. Some considered them political prisoners...

[Diva Betsy Ross]

I think you meant to say that you would be a terror regime AGAIN.