Although it was all a lie, as the finalization of the autopsies four hours later showed, -remaining 3/11 as an attack with no Islamic characteristics-, it caused great harm to the right wing popular government, contributing vastly to a spreading of distrust that would finally cost them the National Elections.
We should not forget either, this big lie was preceded by a vast operation of disinformation, in which the terrorist of ETA and Nationalist and Socialists politicians contributed to keep the Spanish public opinion under the constant threat of an imminent attack.
We must also remember that, being true that 3/11 is not an attack with Islamic characteristics, it has a lot of them in common with the Bologna massacre and other indiscriminate attacks in Italy against civilians by secret structures in order to manipulate the public opinion between 1969 and 1984, during the so-called Strategy of Tension.
BTW: Why isn't Felipe Gonzalez in jail? Why does the conservative Mayor of Madrid allow aggressive prostitution (had several underaged African gals grabbing my arm) go on in the Puerto del Sol, which is in THE MIDDLE OF THE CITY'S MAIN TOURIST DISTRICT?
Despite all this, Spain is my favorite country in Europe.
An unexpected endorsement from Zapatero: he needs tension indeed.
Gabilondo must be not very satisfied with his flamant new TV channel conceded by Zapatero, maybe he expected to be the one and only, and not that his boss favours also others. He worked hard to be unique, since 3/11 many call him Goebbelslondo and ask him on the streets: “where are the suicides?”. He confessed he was tired of the question.
So how will they create this ‘tension?’