[freedom moose]

They have no record of him traveling to Spain recently,

now that's pretty funny. i imagine i don't need to explain record keeping in Spain

pinging livius if you're not already here

[livius]

Thanks for the ping!

Actually, I'm not sure he had to go to Spain to get his fingerprint on that bag. Somebody posted something else fascinating yesterday - apparently what was described as a "delegation" from Morocco had for some reason visited Portland, under very confusing circumstances, some time in February of this year. So it's quite possible that the bombers had some kind of contact with him in the US and not in Spain.