[Pericles]

Spanish judge orders detention of eight Islamic militants "from Afghanistan, Bosnia and Chechnya"

Spain Arrests 11 with Suspected Bin Laden Links "had seen combat in Afghanistan, Bosnia"

BIN LADEN GATE

[The Raven]

The plot thickens

[nikola]

bump!

[be-baw]

Judge Baltasar Garzon

Too bad W can't appoint him to a US bench. Oh, that's right, Dash-hole and Leahy would never let his appointment go forth anyway.

[Sabertooth]

They look like Midwestern right-wing fringe types to me.

Knew it.

[aristeides]

Atta was in Spain from July 9 to July 19. I wonder who he met while in Spain. I wonder if any of his phone conversations are recorded.

[blam]

Good post, thanks.

[Blacksheep]

What about extradition to the US?

[facedown]

ping

[vannrox]

NUKE THEM ALL...

Then, use their ashes to pave our roads. (I'm so heartless... Heh, Heh...) But seriously, these individuals must be stopped. They are really dangerous and are capable of the most horrific crimes. These individuals are quite frightening. We must be alert and strong. This war isn't over by a long shot.

[Eva]

Some Russians that I met at a business dinner last spring, asked me why we were supporting the Muslims in Bosnia, Chechnya and Kosovo. They said that they are not friends of the US and would turn on us as soon as possible. They said that instead of helping the Muslims in the Balkans, we should be helping the Russians in Afghanistan.

Now I wonder if they knew something that we did not.

[AmericanVictory]

Interesting that they should be based in Granada, which was the last city of the Spanish Caliphate, once the second most powerful and advanced in Islam, to fall -- in 1492, the same year of Columbus' finding the New World.

[Great Dane]

There is that Balkan connection again.

[B.Bumbleberry]

"These had revealed the existence of an al-Qaeda camp in Indonesia which trained between 2,000 and 3,000 Islamic radicals."

Very bad news. Should, if true, place Indonesia high on the list of countries supporting terrorism, since it is unlikely that kind of an operation could be going on in the country without the I. government knowing about it.

[aristeides]

I had wondered whether "Shakur" was Atta or one of the other hijackers. But it turns out there was a telephone conversation between "Shakur" and Abu Dahdah on Sept. 29, according to El Pais: Garzón vincula la red de Bin Laden en España con los atentados de EE UU [Garzon Connects bin Laden's Net in Spain With U.S. Attacks . So Shakur is presumably still alive. I wonder who he is.