Posted on 10/17/2006 5:56:29 AM PDT by J Aguilar
New links between ETA and Islamic terrorism
ETA provided false identifications to the Islamic terrorists that attacked the World Trade Center in 1993
Madrid. Javier Oyarzábal (Information Services of CITY FM) – Eusebio Arzalluz aka “Paticorto” [short leggy], a member of today’s Executive Committee of ETA and one of the most trusted men by ETA leader “Txeroki” [pronounced Cherokee], provided false documents to the Islamic Terrorists that attacked the World Trade Center in 1993.
On May 23rd of that year, a series of explosions shook a workshop for vehicle reparation in the Santa Rosa quarter, next to Managua [Nicaragua]. The outcome was: three people dead and 16 neighbouring houses destroyed. Under the debris, hidden in a underground room perfectly prepared, it appeared a huge arsenal of weapons and many compromising documents, among them, a detailed file with data to kidnap and obtain a ramson of a great number of Latin American millionaires. It also was discovered hundreds of passports from 23 different nationalities, and blank identity documents, from Nicaragua and other countries.
What had went off was a real weapon supermarket set up by ETA members, and the forged documents found were to be used by terrorist groups or insurgents of the region, occasionally under control of the Cuban secret services and protected by the Sandinistas during the period they ruled Nicaragua (1979-1990).
In the arsenal it was found 19 surface-to-air missiles and hundreds of AK-47, RPG launchers, machine guns… and a big amount of C-4, the terrorist organizations’ favourite explosive.
The first attack against the World Trade Center, in New York, took place on February 26th, 1993. A bomb went off in the parking leaving seven people dead and more than 1000 wounded. The investigation points out that the alleged main accused, Ramzi Youssef, has direct contact with Osama Bin Laden and receives founding from Al Qaeda. In possession of the detainees for this first attack against the Towers of the World Trade Centre, that same day February 26th, 1993; there are found five Nicaraguan passports and the corresponding birth certificates and driving licenses.
One of the forged passports had the picture of El Sayid Nosair, terrorist arrested in the U.S on charges of having provided the weapons to kill the rabbi Mahir Kahane. In April, a Nicaraguan tribunal sentenced six emigration civil servants for fraudulently stamp the passports found among the possessions of the terrorists of New York. In addition, it was stated that the numbers of those passports were correlative to the ones discovered after the Santa Rosa explosion.
Another data to take into account is that the workshop for repairing cars was a propriety of a Spanish citizen known as Miguel Larios-Moreno, to whom the Sandinista government has granted the Nicaraguan citizenship in 1982, after evaluating a forged Ecuatorian passport. That person that disappeared after the explosion was no other but Eusebio Arzalluz, aka “Paticorto”.
After his escape, he stayed in Cuba. He joined the active members of the terrorist group ETA in 1998, supporting “Txapote” [an ETA leader] party against a cease fire that was promoted by “Mikel Antza” [another ETA leader]. From that moment on, he began to contact members of the Algerian Islamist Group GIA. Between the end of 2002 and the beginning of the year 2003, he returned to Cuba, and remained there until the end of 2004, when today’s ETA military commander [the head of the operative cells] Garikoitz Aspiazu “Txeroki”, recalled him to make him a member of his command.
Something new and interesting, ping.
Makes sense. I heard someone claim the fact that 15 out of the 19 9-11 hijackers having State of Virginia Driver's Licenses suggested an inside job.
Just damn.
They have subsequently been prosecuted.
No doubt the charges should have been elevated to Murder 1.
See Specter in jail for facilitating the marketing of false driver's licenses.
Hmmm?!
Oh, of course I meant the WTC and 3/11
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Wow! Thanks for the update.
I had no idea that the ETA network extended out the way it does.
Fascinating and most disturbing! The document trail for the 1993 WTC bombing has links to Spain and ETA, Nicaragua and Sandinistas, Cuba sheltering terrorists, etc. etc.
This is why EVERY crime potentially related to terrorism, including document fraud, illegal border crossings, etc., must be investigated and prosecuted all-out. I still have not seen any adequate treatment of the document frauds that allowed some of the 9/11 terrorists to operate....
This article indicates why even supposedly "domestic" terrorists such as ETA and IRA and FARC must be vigorously stamped out -- they can at any time provide essential assistance to Islamo-fascist terrorists out of "solidarity" in the war against capitalism, etc. or simply for money, arms, etc.
I forwarded the post to Lauries Mylroie who knows more about the WTC bombing than anyone, and here is her reply:
"Thanks, --but this is just one more example of how facts have become thoroughly garbled. An Egyptian militant, who was related to the murderer of Meir Kahane, was detained after the WTC bombing with Nicaraguan passports for Nosair and his family. No one has explained where they came from--the Sandinistas are another possibility, nor just why Nosair thought he was getting out of Attica.
But just what the relationship between that activity and the WTC bombing was is unclear. And this certainly doesn't address Ramzi Yousef's false identity nor the question of the identities of the other members of that remarkable Baluch "family" of terrorist masterminds."
A "why am I not surprised 13 years later" ping...
Thanks for the feedback. Gotta get ready for work, so cannot delve deeper into meaningfull dialogs. I must day by day shift sometimes in a drastic form how much time I can participate at FR. Early daylight through late night shift work is quite tough to contend with at best.
That's how I read her response.
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