First Report: Car bomb explodes near British Embassy in Damascus

Israeli Media ^ | 4/27/2004

[yonif]

Car bomb explodes near British Embassy in Damascus. Shots and explosions are being heard in the capital. Israel media reporting, Channel 2 Israel and other sources.

[Revenge of Sith]

There are pro-al Qaida Sunni fundamentalists who oppose Assad.

[johnfrink]

I remember that, but the general consensus is that was strictly a bargaining move by the Iranians, and there is some doubt that those guys were even there. Saad bin Laden and Sulaiman al Gaith (brutal spelling errors, I know) were the only names I ever heard.

[Cap Huff]

Link:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1126316/posts?page=1#1

Turns out this was most likely staged.

[Palladin]

Has the infamous Moroccan headed to Syria?

[Cap Huff]

"infamous Moroccan"

I don't know to whom you are referring.

[Palladin]

Th fellow they just indicted in Spain--in absentia (after he got away)--who was behind the 3-11 train bombings. He has been definitely connected to 9-11 by US and British intelligence.

It's all over the news today.

This guy is the brains of the outfit (Al Quaeda) and travels from country to country organizing the next big terrorist plot.

I'll go find some articles about him.

Be right back.

[Palladin]

Suspected Madrid Bomber Indicted for 9/11 Attacks

Wednesday, April 28, 2004

MADRID, Spain — A Moroccan fugitive sought in connection with the March 11 train bombings in Madrid was indicted Wednesday on charges of helping to plan the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States -- the first suspect linked to both attacks.



Amer Azizi (search), 36, helped organize a meeting in northeast Spain in July 2001 that key plotters in the U.S. attacks, including suicide pilot Mohamed Atta (search), used to finalize details, Judge Baltasar Garzon said in the indictment.

Azizi also was included in an indictment Garzon handed down last September against Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden (search) and 34 other terror suspects. Azizi was charged then with belonging to a terrorist organization. Bin Laden and nine others were charged with planning the Sept. 11 attacks.

In the new indictment, Azizi is charged with multiple counts of murder -- "as many deaths and injuries as were committed" on Sept. 11, 2001 -- for helping to plan the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Azizi provided lodging for people who attended the July 2001 meeting in the Tarragona region of Spain and acted as a courier, passing on messages between plotters, Garzon said in the indictment.

According to a U.S. congressional investigation, Atta flew to Madrid in July 2001, where authorities believe he met with co-conspirator Ramzi Binalshibh to discuss the plot. Binalshibh, who provided money to many of the hijackers, is now in U.S. custody at an undisclosed overseas location. The U.S. investigation did not mention the presence of any other conspirators in Spain.

Wednesday's indictment described Azizi as the right-hand man of Imad Yarkas (search), jailed in November 2001 on charges of leading a Spain-based Al Qaeda (search) cell that allegedly provided financing and logistics for people who planned the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States.

Garzon said the new indictment is based on information provided by authorities in Britain, Turkey and the United States.

Azizi had a "direct connection with Al Qaeda leaders in Afghanistan who were responsible for the attacks," Garzon charged.

Attorney General John Ashcroft said he'll work with Spain and other allies to catch Azizi.

"Spain, like the United States, has been the victim of the atrocities of terrorists connected with al Qaeda. We have worked closely with the Spanish government on terrorism investigations in Spain, and we will continue to do so," Ashcroft said.

[Palladin]

Lots more links:

http://search.foxnews.com/_1_2MH7TGK04KH7287__info.foxnws/dog/results?otmpl=dog/webresults.htm&qkw=Amer%20Azizi&qcat=web&top=1&start=&ver=29979&nextPageNum=&fastSearch=

[Cap Huff]

I see now. Thanks for the links. I had not made that connection.

[Palladin]

Wanted! Amer Aziz