Posted on 07/17/2008 5:35:37 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Madrid, Spain (AHN) - The Spanish Supreme Court decided on Thursday to acquit five bombers in the 2004 Madrid commuter train blast which killed 191 people and injured 1,800.
An Egyptian, Rabei Osman, was acquitted due to double-jeopardy provisions, he has already been sentenced to an eight-year prison term in Italy. The court said there was insufficient evidence to charge him with mass murder.
The court likewise upheld the acquittal of Basel Ghalyoun, Muhammad Almallah Dabas, Abdelilah el Fadual el Akil and Raul Gonzalez, all of whom had convictions ranging from five to 12 year prison terms.
The sentence of several suspects were reduced, while Antonio Toro was convicted of swapping the explosives used in the attack for drugs and money and sentenced to four years. A second convicted mastermind, Othman el Gnaoui, was cleared of falsification, but was kept in prison for more serious charges.
Good lord.
This probably is a way to reward them for handing the government from Aznar to the socialists.
Old Europe is sooooo doomed.
This is the kind of thing that could turn Spanish election results back to sane.
Spanish cathedrals will be mosques by mid-century.
El Cid is really dead this time.
I don't know anything about the Spanish people, but this seems like what they want. They voted a government in that they knew would do this.... why would they now vote this government out?
Spain must have enjoyed their last enslavement by the Islamists - to be behaving so cowardly and foolishly....
HUH? Lookie, he either did the dirty deed or he didn't, there is no "double-jeopardy" in the WOT. Eight years is not enough, this scum needs to meet 72 virgin fire-n-brimstone residents down south ....
Keep your powder dry folks.
Let’s see, Aznar was in a tight down to the wire election with a harccore leftist. A bomb explosion kills 191 Spaniards days before the election. Leftist gets on TV blames Aznar and his policies and his slow reaction and gets the essential bump needed to overcome Aznar. Terrorists that are caught are not convicted. I think the leftist planned this all along.
Mass murderers in the new Europe now get lighter sentences than the eco-terrorists here in the US...unbelievable!!!
The Spanish people voted in the current government, not by much, in a backlash against the Madrid bombings. It was an emotional and irrational election mindset.
People do change their minds. It’s why we have had Pelosi as House Speaker for the past couple of years. Events can change voter thinking.
Cowards!
“This probably is a way to reward them for handing the government from Aznar to the socialists.”
Either that or the “Spanish authorities” are scared sh#tless of muslim scumbag terrorists.
Or both.
“The Western World is committing suicide before our very eyes.”
Maybe once the Western world looses a city or two...it will wake the f**k up...
Not quite. Anzar’s government intially thought the bombing was the work of Basque separatists from ETA. When it became apparent that this was not true there was a tremendous backlash against his government.
Now to think that the attack might have been the work of a terrorist group that has been fighting Spanish Governments since anybody can remember is not an unreasonable position, or a theory to lightly dismiss. But he was wrong about the attack & that was all that was needed.
Politically-speaking what happened with the Madrid Bombing roughly parallels what our own Dems have done to GWB over the pre-War WMD claim.
The obscenity of it all is that the Socialist Spanish Government turns right around & releases the Islamic bombers. I guess we can look forward to the Democrats closing Gitmo & sending the inmates home with our sincere apologies.
Unbelievable!....
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