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You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.Abraham Lincoln Following previous revelations, these last two weeks have been full of events regarding the investigations of the biggest massacre of Spanish history, which resulted in a change of government. This humble Spanish citizen has tried to build a summary of them: First of all, Toro and Trashorras, the miners that allegedly supplied the explosives for 3/11 attack, according to the Official Version, were found guilty of charges of drug trafficking. Witness Lavandera testimony...

PART ONE From Enigmas of 3/11 by Luis del Pino. Chapter 12 THE FAIRY TALE ABOUT EL CHINOPublished in Libertad Digital on October 5th 2005We all know, as a result of the revelations of the journalists and the Judge's reports, many things about El Chino, one of the most important characters of 3/11. We know, or we think that we know that his name was Jamal Ahmidan; that he was running a small drug trafficking network; that he rented the house in Morata de Tajuña [Morata] to individuals close to the Almallah brothers; that he bought the explosives from the...

Climatic ChangeA curious matter that Rajmar sends me. As you know, the weekend when the alleged transport of explosives from Asturias took place, there was a snow storm in Northern Spain. In the Volume 24 of the Judicial Summary is included the picture that allegedly took a traffic radar system to the Toyota Corolla [where the explosives were transported, according to the Official Version] as it was moving near Burgos. Here is the picture: However, if you go back some Volumes of the Judicial Summary, the picture that firstly was sent to the judge was this one: How much the...

Two police officers arrested and kept two weeks in jail after talking to the independent newspaper EL MUNDO and a girl forced to take away from her home a banner showing criticism to the 3/11 investigation are the first clear signs of breaking of Civil Rights in Spain, as the popular movement for knowing the truth on 3/11 grows.------------------------------------------------------ HE MAINTAINS THAT THERE IS NO EVIDENCE TO JUSTIFY HIS ARRESTThe Jailed Police Officer Arrested For Meeting a EL MUNDO Journalist Requests Del Olmo to Inhibit [From His Case] Because of "Clear Lack of Jurisdiction".Inspector Parrilla is in jail since last...

Luis del Pino, author of “The Lies on 3/11”“The False Islamic Plot has been Created by the Services of the State in Order to Mislead”On December 11th, the association “Black Pawns” [Peones Negros] will hold another a rally in Salamanca again. This civic movement has the journalist Luis del Pino as one of its intellectual inspirers. Del Pino has become a truly “outsider” of the political information in Spain, as a consequence of his investigation on the 3/11 attacks. JORGE HERNÁNDEZ The author of “The Enigmas of 3/11” and “The Lies on 3/11” has been investigating and publishing data since...

In an unprecedented step, informer Abdelkader Farssaoui aka Cartagena reported last Friday pressures from the Police to cover-up links between Islamists and ETA. Farssaoui surprisingly appeared at the National High Court to file a sixteen page report on which he gives details of the orders he received from his controllers and the tasks he carried out. He claims they pressured and coerced him to conceal the links between Islamists and ETA members in his testimonies before Judges Del Olmo, investigating 3/11, and Garzón, in charge of the supervision of the operation Nova. He also says he elaborated notes on Islamists...

A person involved was on 3/11 in the Vallecas precinct.A Police Plot in Madrid on Goma-2 ECO and Detonators Trafficking Is Being Investigated.The Provincial Brigade of Information is investigating various National Police officers that might be involved in Goma-2 ECO and detonators trafficking. According to EL MUNDO revelations, one of the suspects was assigned during the night of 3/11 to the Vallecas Bridge precinct, where the backpack number 13, that led to the first arrests and on which the Official Version is founded, appeared. Although it was not known until now, the investigations began last August 15th, with the supervision...

It was not written in an official laboratory and had only one signatureThe Report on the 3/11 Explosives Will Have to Be Repeated Since It Lacks Legal Value.Luis del Pino had already noted it down, and today Monday EL MUNDO gives further details, founding its arguments in the Criminal Procedure Law, to insist that the report on the 3/11 explosives has no legal value. It was written by the Explosive Deactivation Unit and NBQ, the TEDAX, in spite of what the procedure orders, that it should have been written by an official laboratory: either the one of the Scientific Police...

[See previous posts (1) (2) on this developing story] The Judge considers a fact that they altered the report on the boric acid.The Chief Police Officers Exonerated by Garzón Will Be Judged for Forgery, False Testimony and Cover-up.Judge Gemma Gallego sees evidence of falseness in report, false testimony and cover-up in the manipulation of a report on ETA and 3/11 carried out by the leadership of the Scientific Police. The Judge of the Investigating Court number 35 has passed today [Friday] an order changing into abbreviate procedure [her investigation] against Miguel Ángel Santano, chief officer of the Scientific Police; his...

The Forensic expert that summoned the PSOE to the 3/11 Commission hindered it.The Scientific Police Had No Access During Hours to the Bodies of the “Suicides” of Leganés.Nobody has been able to explain yet why the autopsies to the rests of the alleged suicides of Leganés were not performed; in spite of the Law demanding it in any violent death. But this is not the only bizarre point surrounding the processes carried out on the corpses found in Leganés. When the Scientific Police appeared at the Anatomic Forensic Institute to exam the rests and take samples from the bodies of...

A political and judiciary battle has broken out in Spain after EL MUNDO newspaper revealed two weeks ago that a forensic report related to a substance found in the search of the house of Hasan Haski, one of the masterminds, according to the Official Version, of the 3/11 attack, has been manipulated in order to avoid naming ETA.Surprisingly, two judiciary processes to investigate the matter had been opened, one in the ordinary courts and the other in the National High Court, by Judge Baltasar Garzón. Judge Garzón moved swiftly summoning the three forensic experts who had denounced that his report,...

Following previous revelations, this week EL MUNDO newspaper publishes the original of a manipulated Police forensic report. This report talks about the finding of a rare substance, boric acid, in the house of Hasan Haski, mastermind with Rabei Osman, The Egyptian, of the 3/11 attack, according to the Official Version supported by the State attorney in the case. Three forensic experts of the Scientific Police certify the finding and point out that the same substance was discovered in the hide-out of the latest ETA cell in Madrid, arrested in 2002: That given that this substance rarely has been seized related...

Following Trashorra's interview, this week EL MUNDO publishes an excerpt of the new book co-written by former protected witness Francisco Javier Lavandera and journalist Fernando Múgica. Lavandera (incorrectly written Lavandero or El Lavandero), who served in the Spanish army special forces and then worked as a mercenary in Africa, confirms that Toro and Trashorras asked him to transport explosives for ETA in 2001. He though it was simply a bait: "who could say such a thing outside the Nationalist environment of the Basque country?". Toro and Trashorras told him that they could source a big amount of dynamite, that they...

Following your thread posted on May 18th 2005 Spain’s “Terrorgate”? Investigating 3/11., I highlight the last development on this issue: an interview by Fernando Múgica to José Emilio Suárez Trashorras, published this week by the Spanish newspaper EL MUNDO. Trashorras, a former miner and drug smuggler, is charged with supplying the explosive used in 3/11 and collaborating with the Muslim terrorists in order to carry out the attack. He confesses to Fernando Múgica that he always operated under the control of Manuel García Rodríguez aka Manolon, chief drug traffic investigator in Avilés precinct, and that this police officer was the...

At the height of the morning commute on March 11, 2004, ten bombs exploded in and around four train stations in Madrid. Almost 200 Spaniards were killed, and some 2,000 wounded. The next day, Spain seemed to be standing firm against terror, with demonstrators around the country wielding signs denouncing the “murderers” and “assassins.” Yet things did not hold. Seventy-two hours after the bombs had strewn arms, legs, heads, and other body parts over three train stations and a marshaling yard, the Spanish government of José María Aznar, a staunch ally of the United States and Great Britain in Iraq,...

"Few people realize the significance of the March 11, 2004 terrorist attacks in Spain. There are those in our country, particularly in the leftist news media that erroneously believe that the Al-Qaeda attacks are a result of the Spanish government's support for the war against terrorists. Others are deluded into thinking that the attacks were carried out because a small Spanish Army unit is currently in Iraq carrying out humanitarian duties. The attacks happened for an entirely different reason. That reason is simple. Spain is a former Islamic country. That's correct. From 718 AD until 1492, the Iberian Peninsula was...

London Letter "The lamps are going out all over Europe," the British foreign secretary, Sir Edward Grey, declared on August 3, 1914, as the Continent descended into world war. April 10, 2006, was not so apocalyptic, but its symbolism is nonetheless potent. Two years ago, the Madrid bombs panicked Spain into electing a left-wing government that would pull out of Iraq. Now it is the turn of two other Mediterranean peoples to put out their lamps. Yesterday was a dark day in the history of Europe, not only because both France and Italy turned their backs on economic reform, but...

MADRID — Spanish police arrested 16 people Monday who are suspected of recruiting Al Qaeda fighters to send to Iraq, officials said. The group's alleged leader, a 25-year-old Iraqi known as Abu Sufian, had access to Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq, Abu Musab Zarqawi, and probably sent his recruits on suicide missions, the Interior Ministry said. The 16, of several nationalities, sent volunteers to Iraq "to wage jihad as members of the Al Qaeda network," Spanish Interior Minister Jose Antonio Alonso told a news conference. He said the group had two fighters ready to send to Iraq at the time...

Spanish police arrested 15 people Monday on suspicion of recruiting and indoctrinating fighters for Iraq's insurgency, officials said. The cell was in close contact with al-Qaida members in Iraq and had two people ready to be sent there to wage "holy war," Interior Minister Jose Antonio Alonso told a news conference. The arrests stemmed from a probe that began in January and the cell sent "several" people to fight in Iraq, the minister said without giving a precise figure. More than 100 police officers staged raids that led to the arrests in the regions of Catalonia and Andalusia as well...

<p>MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- Serbia on Sunday extradited to Spain a Moroccan man who is prime suspect in the Madrid train bombings last year that killed 191 people, the Spanish Interior Ministry said in a statement.</p> <p>The suspect, Abdelmajid Bouchar, 22, arrived at a military airport near Madrid in the custody of four Spanish officers assigned to Interpol, the international police agency.</p>