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With Manzano, everything was mixedThe EDU provincial chief denounces that the reports on the explosives were concealed from him LD has accessed new testimonies against Sanchez-Manzano. The testimonies before judge Coro Cillan by the EDU officers who participated in the collection of the evidence from the attacks continue revealing that the former commander of the Central Unit of Explosive Disposal, Juan Jesus Sanchez-Manzano, failed to fulfill the protocol. The person in charge of the Provincial Brigade for Explosive Disposal in Madrid, Jose Maria Caceres-Vadillo, who was present in the collection of samples at Atocha [station] and Tellez [street explosion scenes]...

UPDATE 1-Spain bond sale costs soar toward danger levels Thu Nov 17, 2011 5:35am EST * Spain sold 3.6 bln euros of new 10-yr benchmark bond * Yield was 6.975 pct, highest since 1997 * Just below 7 pct level seen as unsustainable By Nigel Davies MADRID, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Spain paid the highest rate to sell its 10-year debt since 1997 on Thursday, just shy of the 7 percent mark seen as unsustainable, as the country is swept deeper into the euro zone's debt crisis ahead of a Parliamentary election on Sunday.

Judiciary investigation on 3/11The EDU team maintains that they picked up hundreds of samples Today March 11th the judge hears the testimony of 24 Explosive Disposal Unit members that participated in the collection of evidence. They showed their astonishment on certain matters of the investigation. ANGELA MARTIALAY Since the 9:30 hours, the holder of the #43 court in Madrid, Coro Cillan, questions the EDU technicians that on March 11th, 2004 and the following days, participated in the collection of rests in the explosion scenes of the Madrid terrorist attack. The judge has called today Friday –the seventh anniversary of the...

Documents show that Spanish police tipped ETA terrorists to a raid while also apologizing for the "accident." Aiding and abetting a terrorist group is a serious crime in Spain, punishable by jail terms of up to ten years. So if it should turn out that the country’s very own interior minister gave terrorists advance notice of an imminent police raid, and later apologized to them for not having aborted it, then it stands to reason that the government — which has since elevated the minister in question to deputy premier and political heir apparent — is in big trouble, and...

Madrid - Spain may extend its state of emergency for up to two months to train military personnel to take over the jobs of those air traffic controllers who are sacked or face legal action, El Mundo newspaper said on Monday. The army took over air control towers late on Friday...

Ugh… dinitro toluene!The Video that Judge Bermudez Denied the Victims Shows the Lies about 3/11 Unease and disagreement among the official experts when DNT was found in the samples coming from the 3/11 attack. The tapes [recorded by the cameras Judge] Bermudez ordered to install, and that were denied to the victims during three years, come now to the light. [Newspaper] EL MUNDO publishes their content, which refutes the sentence. LIBERTAD DIGITAL Shortly before the trial of the 3/11 case began, the president of the Court, [Judge] Javier Gomez Bermudez, ordered to perform the analyses of the explosives used in...

Yes to the war, but only with Obama.The "No to War” Government Prepares to Send Civil Guards to Iraq After the “mother of all withdraws" carried out by Zapatero and the former Defence minister, Jose Bono, it seems that after the arrival of Obama to the White House the War of Iraq is no longer so illegal, immoral and unjust: agents of the Civil Guard have travelled to Iraq. Libertad Digital The news broke out last Wednesday in the Congress, when answering a question from the [right wing] PP member of parliament, Ignacio Cosidó, the Secretary of State of Security,...

Director of the Police under Mayor-OrejaCotino thinks that the Government is negotiating with ETA again. In spite of which it may seem, Mayor-Oreja is not alone in his belief that the Government is negotiating with ETA. Juan Cotino, former director of the [National] Police, has the same certainty. EUROPA PRESS Juan Cotino, now second deputy president of the Valencian Council, thinks that the [Zapatero’s] administration is negotiating with the terror organization ETA again, according what he told in an interview in the program ' Bon Matí' on Radio 9 […]. Cotino, [...] was appointed chief of a main directorate of...

Manzano’s own witness does not back him.The samples from the 3/11 attack were not eliminated; they were moved to the "TEDAX laboratory" The Courts of Plaza de Castilla [provincial courts, not the heavily politizied National High Court] have welcomed this Tuesday the renewal of the cause against the former head of the TEDAX and his subordinate, the chemical expert of the unit. Although the TEDAX [officer] that coordinated the tasks of collection of rest of explosive was proposed by the defense, he contradicted his superior. OLIVIA MOYA Court number 43 from Madrid admitted a complaint filed by the Association for...

PART TWO From Enigmas of 3/11 by Luis del Pino. Chapter 46 THE FAMILY OF JAMAL AHMIDAN Published in Libertad Digital on September 2nd 2008 For those who still believe, little or much, in the official version of the 3/11 attacks, a certainly striking fact would have to be surprising: the scarce information told to us about the history and personal and familiar circumstances of the supposed perpetrators of the massacre. LD (Luis del Pino) The sentence from the National High Court ascribes the top responsibility for the attacks on the seven persons who died in Leganes, which would form...

Rubalcaba "sees and listens" to the MP who asked for SITEL. Incident between [Interior Minister] Rubalcaba and [MP] Carlos Floriano after a tense row in the Parliament. According to [PP spokeperson] Esteban Gonzalez-Pons, the minister lost control of himself and went after the Popular Party member of the parliament to threaten him “I see and I hear everything you do” […]. Mercedes R. Martin / P. Montesinos When all the reporters were awaiting news about the liberation of the “Alakrana”, Esteban Gonzalez-Pons surprised everyone with a press conference to explain the incident that happened just a few meters away from...

New course in the investigation of 3/11Manzano, Cornered by the Tedax and the Sentence Acquitting EL MUNDO [newspaper]Blow for Sanchez-Manzano. Tuesday, during his testimony, he admitted that he had destroyed evidence from the 3/11 attacks. Wednesday, before the judge, six TEDAX officers [TEDAX: Spanish National Police Explosive Disposal Unit] extended this information. Hours later, a forceful sentence acquitted EL MUNDO [newspaper] and Jimenez-Losantos [radio anchor] on their information and opinions on the matter.Olivia Moya | Luis del PinoThe investigation on the 3/11 attacks has taken a new course. In only two days the actions of the former [administrative] chief of...

By the Association for Aiding of the 3/11 VictimsForceful Complaint against Manzano for the Homicide Weapon of 3/11 The Association for Aiding of the 3/11 Victims has presented Wednesday a complaint against the former chief of TEDAX [bomb disposal unit], Sanchez-Manzano, for omission of his duty of persecuting crimes, cover-up by concealment of evidence and false testimony regarding the 3/11 attacks. ANGELA MARTIALAY Not very often a complaint reflects in so exact form and well related the facts that motivate it as the one written by the lawyer Jose Maria de Pablo. The Association for Aiding of the 3/11 Victims...

MADRID -- A Spanish court is expected to deliver its verdict this month in the insider-trading trial of Telefónica Chairman César Alierta -- a long-awaited decision that could have profound consequences on Europe's biggest telecom firm and Spain's close-knit business community.

Spain’s Justice Minister Resigns By VICTORIA BURNETT Published: February 23, 2009 MADRID — Spain’s justice minister resigned Monday after a political uproar erupted over a recent hunting trip with a judge who is investigating members of the conservative opposition party. The minister, Mariano Fernández Bermejo, was on the same deer-hunting expedition in Andalusia as Baltasar Garzón, a high-profile terrorism judge involved in a corruption investigation...

He was convicted for collaborating with ETAGonzalo Boyé is behind the lawsuit presented against the former Israel defence ministerBehind the lawsuit presented against the former Israel defence minister and six military is Gonzalo Boyé. The lawyer was sentenced for collaborating with ETA and exerted the defense of an ETA member while he maintained the official version in the trial of the 3/11 case.(Libertad Digital) The National High Court judge Fernando Andreu, admitted Thursday the lawsuit presented by the Palestinian Center for the Human Rights against the former Israel defence minister, Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, and six military. He attributes them a crime...

The Court Decided not to Transcribe ThemPeones Negros Makes Public the Complete Acts of the 3/11 TrialThe court that judged the 3/11 case, presided by judge Gomez-Bermudez, decided that the minutes of the trial held on the massacre would not be written. Before this, a group of volunteers from the citizen’s group Peones Negros (Black Pawns) has transcribed the hundreds of hours of video recording of the sessions. (Libertad Digital) Although it may sound unbelievable, the trial on the biggest terrorist attack in the History of Spain ended without a written transcription on what had happened in the different sessions....

The Great Orient of France and Zapatero by Cesar Vidal. November 19th, 2008 Last Friday, I read an editorial in La Linterna [the Lantern] that brought about an extraordinary commotion up to the point of which it has been a true multitude the one that has requested this text. I reproduce it next. It was the year 1801, when in the French port of Brest the first Masonic lodge participated by Spaniards was constituted. Its name was La Reunión Española, and we know that it had 26 members, among them some priests. The goal of the lodge was obvious. Napoleon...

Devolution has been good for Spain, but it may have gone too far THE hardest problem for the authors of Spain’s democratic constitution was to strike a balance between the central government and the claims of Catalonia, the Basque country and Galicia for home rule. The formula they came up with was known as café para todos, or coffee for all: Spain was divided into 17 “autonomous communities” (plus the enclave cities of Ceuta and Melilla on the Moroccan coast), each with its own elected parliament and government. This estado de las autonomías seemed a neat solution. Over the past...

The microphones betray again the president Lara, to Zapatero: “Don’t Burn You Out with These Issues”The open microphones have betrayed Zapatero again. In an episode that remembers the "tensión" on which Gabilondo spoke in the heat of the campaign, [see also this] the president clarified why he helps talking about crisis. "If you instil much pessimism, if you do not say anything positive, it is worse", the president told his host, Jose Manuel Lara, before giving his lecture in the Circle of Economy. The [media] businessman advised him “not to burn him out" with those subjects. The result of adress:...