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Men behind Madrid bombs laugh in court By Fiona Govan in Madrid Last Updated: 2:33am GMT 01/11/2007 A Spanish court yesterday convicted three men of murder over the Madrid train bombings that killed 191 passengers. The three received symbolic sentences of more than 40,000 years each but under Spanish law they will serve a maximum of 40 years. Two Moroccans, Jamal Zougam, 33, and Otman el Gnaoui, 32, were convicted of carrying out the attacks on four commuter trains. A Spaniard, Jose Emilio Suarez Trashorras, 30, was found guilty of supplying the explosives. Eighteen other people were convicted of lesser...

MADRID, Spain - Spain's National Court convicted the three main suspects in the Madrid commuter train bombings of mass murder Wednesday and sentenced them to tens of thousands of years in prison for Europe's worst Islamic terror attack. But the verdict was a mixed bag for prosecutors, who saw four other key defendants convicted of lesser offenses and an accused ringleader acquitted altogether. With much of the case resting on circumstantial evidence, the three judges may have been wary after a number of high-profile Spanish terror cases were overturned on appeal. Spain's prime minister said the verdict still upheld justice....

Norberto Bobbio was an Italian philosopher of law and historian born in 1909, who died in January 2004. Member of the anti-fascist resistance, he was jailed by Mussolini during the Second World War. Ideologically, he was a [classic] liberal socialist, staunch defender of the Rule of Law and the Separation of Powers. He was appointed senator for life in 1979 by the Italian president Sandro Pertini, Bobbio was in its time one of the most fervent supporters of the “historic commitment” between the Communist Party and the Christian Democrats, and in the last stage of his life he was also...

Decision without precedents in the history of DemocracyThe Government Bursts into the Supreme Court Challenging Two Conservative JudgesThe State Attorneys have formulated in name of the Government the challenge of the Judges of the Supreme Court Roberto García-Calvo and Jorge Rodríguez-Zapata, to cancel their votes in the so-called "Casas amendment" with which the present president is armoured. [This is] a decision without precedents in the history of the Democracy. From the PP, Ignacio Astarloa, described the situation as "scandal" and said that "it rains on wet" because, in his opinion, it is not the first time that it tries to...

One of the most used techniques of intoxication and propaganda is the so-called technique of the transparent message. The technique of the transparent message is astoundingly simple in spite of what it works wonderfully and it is used everyday at all levels in our life. This way of intoxication consists in hide (to make it transparent) the false message that you want to inoculate to your audience, resorting to another supposed message, that it is utilized as a lure. Once, a good friend of mine told me a paradigmatic example of this kind of technique. It was about an urban...

Who could give the order for that massacre and still pressure the Vatican deal? Only Lucchesi can reach between these two worlds. "Our ships must all sail in the same direction"... Italian politics have had these men for centuries. They are the true Mafia.The Godfather Part III (1990) Let us consider some facts that preceded the Madrid train bombings’ investigation: ONE: December 25th, 2003: ETA'S MIRRORING MASSACRELink hereThe ETA members might have planted two other bombs.A “Preventive Action” by the Police Thwards an ETA Attack in Madrid.The Police have foiled an ETA attack on Christmas Eve in Chamartin Station [the...

Mahmoud Slimane was accused of collaborating with a terrorist organization and forgery. His release means that the panel of Judges of the 3/11 case have found him not guilty of the first charge and for the second the maximum prison term they will sentence him, if any, is 7 years, of which he already has fulfilled half of them. The first charge was brought by the State Attornies as a result of the numerous calls he maintained during key days with other defendants and Jamal Ahmidan, who was, according to the questioned Official Version, the leader of the perpetrators of...

Let me tell you about my motherFrom Enigmas of 3/11 by Luis del Pino. Chapter 13THE HOUSE OF MORATAPublished in Libertad Digital www.libertaddigital.com on October 12th 2005.A few weeks ago, we Spaniards have known the sentence against Al Qaeda's Spain cell, accused of collaborating in the preparation of the New York attacks. One of the persons found guilty was Mohamed Needl Acaid, aka Abu Nidal. Abu Nidal was born on March 1st 1967, was Syrian, as were many of the indicted in that same trial against Al Qaeda. Just as many others prosecuted, he was married with a Spanish woman,...

They made him believe those calls made after 3/11 were from [Jamal] AhmidanThe Police Hid to [Judge] Del Olmo that Contacted Three Persons Close to “El Chino”.Between March 27th and March 30th 2004, fifteen days after the attacks of 3/11, the Police maintained telephone contact with one of the persons indicted in the massacre, Otman El Gnaoui. According to EL MUNDO’s revelations, this information did not arrive to the investigative judge, but the police officers made believe Juan Del Olmo that the calls were made by Jamal Ahmidan, aka "El Chino". Also they hid to him that from that same...

It has only been proved the link Morata-Backpack of VallecasThere is No Evidence to Support the Official Version on the Activation of the Bombs EitherReady for judgement the trial of 3/11, it is still not being credited what exploded in the trains. The chemical experts have only agreed among themselves in one thing: that the explosive cannot be determined. It is not possible to be credited either, because there is no evidence, that the SIM cards that allegedly were used as timers of the bombs, were activated near the mobile phone base station of Morata in the hours previous to...

The Police hid it in their reportsTwo of the Mobile Phones of The Tunisian Were Operating Weeks After the Apartment of Leganés Blew UpOn April 3rd 2004, the apartment located in the Carmen Martín Gaite street exploded while it was surrounded by the Police. Among the debris, the rests of seven individuals were found. One of them, according to the police information, was Serhane Farket, aka The Tunisian. Nevertheless, the data contributed by the mobile phone companies throw a peculiar result: two of the mobile phone numbers of the alleged suicide bomber continued operating weeks after the explosion of Leganés...

The trial of 28 defendants accused of organising the Madrid bombings of 11 March 2004 has entered its final day. Defence lawyers are making closing arguments on behalf of their clients, all of whom have pleaded not guilty. The defendants, who are alleged to be linked to al-Qaeda, are accused of killing 191 people and wounding 1,841, in attacks on four commuter trains. Some of the accused could face up to 40 years in jail when verdicts are handed down in October. The panel of judges is expected to begin deliberations once the defence lawyers have finished speaking. The eight...

EL MUNDO’S MAIN EDITORIAL Saturday, June 2nd 2007 “Finished off” the Official Version, the Only Thesis Left is TitadynWhat has happened in the short period of time of this week serves as perfect paradigm of how the Police and the State attorney's office have tried to manipulate the investigation of 3/11 from its very beginning. Last Monday, one of the newspapers used habitually to poison the public opinion announced triumphally "the finishing off of the theory of the conspiracy ". The title of the first page was redacted based on a report that assured that the technicians of the Civil...

Well, we finally have the conclusions of the report asked by Judge Gómez-Bermúdez about the explosives used in the 3/11 massacre. As this humble Spanish citizen has been broadcasting from the trenches of Freedom in Spain, his Honour named a team composed by eight experts, four officials (two from the National Police and two others from the paramilitary law enforcement corps, the Civil Guard) and other four private experts proposed by the private accusations and defences’ attorneys. However, as it was already leaked, the new report does not clarify the question of which was the weapon of the crime in...

To prove that it exists no contaminationThe Forensic Experts Entrusted with the Analyses of the Samples of Explosives of 3/11 Will Ask for the Exhumation of the Corpses.The hypothesis about the contamination of the explosives [samples] have been falling apart. When DNT was found in the samples, the official experts affirmed it was caused by an inoculation in its manufacturing process. This theory was discarded, but when nitro glycerine appeared in one of the explosion scenes, the chief of the Laboratory of the Scientific Police pointed out as cause the “porosity” of the bag that contained the sample. According to...

Terrorism is a continuation of politics by other means......at least in some corners of this world. He transmitted the false presence of suicide terrorists[Former Interior Minister] Acebes Blames Zapatero for Spreading the “Only Confirmed Lie” of 3/11.The general secretary of the PP has pointed out directly the president of the government as responsible for the “only confirmed lie”, for the time being, of 3/11: the alleged presence of suicide terrorists [on the trains]. “Zapatero himself was the one that spread this information”, Acebes has denounced in COPE [Radio News Channel] on the basis of the revelations of EL MUNDO newspaper,...

New analyses carried out on the rests found on the trains by order of Judge Gómez-Bermúdez show that in the Madrid massacre - "it was not used dynamite Goma-2 ECO, but Titadyne or any other dynamite alike. In the fire extinguisher powder sample found in one of the explosion scenes has appeared nitro glycerine, nitro glycol, dinitro toluene and ammonium nitrate. Neither nitro glycerine nor dinitro toluene are components of the Goma-2 ECO that the Official Version says it was employed. However, those four components belong to some types of Titadyne and other kinds of dynamite." As the readers of...

Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.Sun Tzu Wednesday, May 25th 2005 “The Moroccan Services Had Information about 3/11”ALI LMRABET. Special for EL MUNDO. KENITRA (MOROCCO) – From the Central Prison in Kenitra, the Moroccan Islamist Jihadist Salahedin Benyaich, also known as ‘Abu Mughen’ or ‘The One-Eyed’, has conceded an interview to EL MUNDO to tell his truth on 3/11, 9/11 and the Casablanca attacks. One of the masterminds of this massacre, he was sentenced to 18 years in prison for belonging to the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM). He has fought...

He also reveals that The Tunisian talked to UCIE agents.Cartagena Identifies the Police Officer that Asked Him to Go into the Leganés Apartment in the Morning of April 3rd.The testimony as protected witness, asked by the State Attorney Olga Sánchez, of the Police informer nicknamed Cartagena has left a lot of question that might change drastically the trial. Some details had been already revealed by EL MUNDO, as the pressure from the Police to avoid mentioning ETA. According to his testimony, The Tunisian was also linked to UCIE Police Officers. Asked by the Accusation Attorney, he gave names: “Enrique, Rubio,...

Following a post on Frank J. Gaffney article about 3/11, this humble Spanish citizen has been translating and summarizing news that came out in the Spanish independent media (a few), on new data that contradicts the Official Version sold to the Spanish public opinion about what happened in the March 11th bombings. Surprisingly, most of this data comes from the Judicial Summary itself, whose main parts have remained secret during years. Once it had to be made public in order to open the trial process, the panel of judges that will carry out this task, saw probably horrified how critical...