Posted on 07/25/2004 1:17:50 PM PDT by Willie Green
MADRID (Reuters) - Morocco has warned Spain that it has lost track of 400 Moroccan Islamist militants who trained in al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan, Bosnia or Chechnya, Spanish newspaper El Pais reported on Sunday.
Moroccan authorities gave the warning to Judge Baltasar Garzon, Spain's leading al Qaeda expert, in Rabat earlier this month, El Pais said, citing a person who was present at the meeting.
Spanish Interior Minister Jose Antonio Alonso, asked about the report, neither confirmed nor denied it but said Spain and Morocco were cooperating closely in the fight against al Qaeda and there was a constant flow of information between them.
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People here have probably not been following this, but on top of everything else, hearings (similar to the 9/11 commission) are being held in Spain on the March 11 bombings. All sorts of strange facts have emerged - such as, for example, the fact that some of the Moroccans involved were supposedly police informants. (I guess they didn't provide much information!)
Also, a strong connection with ETA has emerged, and even some of the Socialists have admitted that it was very possible that ETA was working with AQ. By a fluke, the ETA van full of explosives was stopped on its way to Madrid, but the Moroccan van, also stolen in the same town but going to Madrid on a different highway, was stopped for having false plates but was not searched and was allowed to go on its way, with disastrous results.
On top of this, the news was just released the other day that another stolen car had been found parked about 75 feet away from the one left by the terrorists when they boarded the train in Alacalá de Henares. The car had been parked there for 3 months, and after the neighbors complained, it was finally towed back to Hertz, from whom it had been stolen. When the employees opened it to clean it out, they found blasting caps and Islamic literature. Of course, by then they'd washed it and wiped off most of the prints, etc. Talk about sloppy police work! 3 months, a few feet away from the first car...and they never checked it???
And another problem is that the Spanish intelligence service, the CNI, which Aznar had to reorganize by destroying its predecessor, the CESID, which had been used as a political domestic spying tool by the Socialists, was completely out of the loop. This was because the police were not referring things to them, and because the police released information to the media and the Socialist party before turning it over to the intelligence service.
Talk about a disastrous situation just waiting to happen, alas.
Those testing positive should be shot on the spot!!
Most Europeans have been brain dead for most part of the past century!
On top of that, they didn't release this inconvenient find for six weeks after they discovered it.
Nothing good can come of this.
BUMP...keep this at the top
Wonder how many of them have,or will,come into the U.S. from Mexico with Mexican papers?
Believe nothing, until the goverment denies it.
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