Today, in an example of the joke that the Western 'justice' system has become,
a Spanish judge passed down sentences on 29 Moroccon patsies for their alleged
yet wholly uncorroborated part in the Madrid Train bombings:
Judge
charges 29 over Madrid train bombing
A Spanish judge has launched one of Europe's largest terrorism prosecutions,
charging 29 people in connection with the 2004 Madrid train bombings.
After a two-year investigation, Judge Juan Del Olmo charged five people,
all Moroccan nationals, with 191 counts of murder and 1,755 attempted murders,
when they blew up three commuter trains in the Spanish capital. Another 23
were charged with collaboration.
Rather than waste time in attempting to argue the case myself, I will simply
present evidence from mainstream news sources which show that today's charges
can only be an attempt to close the case on the Madrid bombings using the time-honored
tactics of locking up a bunch of patsies.
Spanish
prosecutor wants Sept 11 conviction quashed
Feb 16, 2006 - MADRID (Reuters)
Spain's public prosecutor urged a court on Thursday to overturn an alleged
al Qaeda leader's conviction for conspiring with the September 11 plotters,
calling the evidence weak and unconvincing.
If the Supreme Court agrees with the prosecutor, it would mean that a high-profile
trial of 24 alleged al Qaeda members in Spain last year had failed to convict
anyone in connection with the September 11, 2001 attacks on U.S. cities.
From today's article on the convictions:
"Mr Bouchar was arrested in Serbia a year later, while carrying false Iraqi
papers, and extradited to Spain. Both Mr Zougam and Mr Bouchar and the three
others named in the indictment had links to the Moroccan Islamic Fighters'
Group (GICM), which carried out the Casablanca bombings in May 2003."
Britons
held over Casablanca bombings
A Briton is being held in Morocco in connection with the May bombings in
Casablanca that killed 44 people.
A second Briton is also being held by authorities in the north African country,
but a Foreign Office spokeswoman refused to confirm if he is suspected
of terrorism.
Morocco
bomb suspect is 'French spy'
Monday 08 September 2003 Aljazeera.net
A French national on trial in Morocco for allegedly leading a Muslim group
suspected of the May bombing attacks in Casablanca has told the court he
worked for French intelligence.
Pierre Robert told the Rabat court that he infiltrated Muslim groups and
carried out investigations on behalf of the French intelligence services,
the DST.
Spain
suspects 'were Police informants'
The Spanish interior ministry says it is investigating reports that two
suspects in the 11 March Madrid train bombings were police informants. [...]
French
accuse MI5 of failing to help terror hunt
By Kim Willsher in Paris and David Bamber
15/09/2002
French intelligence personnel have accused Britain of failing to cooperate
with European partners in the war against Islamic terrorist groups. The allegations,
made by senior French officials, have angered MI5 officers. Legal & General
France's security services claim that their British counterparts are refusing
to share information, work with them or act against known British-based terrorist
suspects.
A senior French intelligence official who reports directly to the President's
office said that while there had been a "slight" improvement in
cooperation immediately after September 11 last year, "things are now
worse than they were before; that is to say, the British just don't appear
to be doing anything. It's a pity because Britain has excellent intelligence
but your people simply won't cooperate with us."
The anti-terrorist official also said that the French were certain that
MI5 was sheltering Abu Qatada, a militant cleric, while officially denying
knowledge of his whereabouts.
Special
Branch to track Muslims across UK
Vikram Dodd Wednesday July 20, 2005
The Guardian
Special intelligence units are being planned across Britain to monitor Muslims
so the authorities can collect "community by community" knowledge
of where extremism is building up.
The Guardian has learned that the special squads, to be known as Muslim
Contact Units and staffed by Special Branch officers, will be established
in areas including Yorkshire, north-west England and parts of the Midlands.
Another quote from today's article about the Madrid bombing charges:
"But Vicente Martin Pujalte, of the conservative opposition party, said
they were still unconvinced by the "insufficient conclusion". He
said: "To say this is an autonomous cell who simply decided [to carry
out the bombing] one morning seems a weak argument." He
described the accused as "secondary actors" in the conspiracy."
So the question remains: who are the "primary actors"?
Spain's "Terrorists" Not
Devout Muslims
Xympohora - March 18-19, 2004
You can see how absurdly easy it is to create a fake 'al-Qaeda' terrorist
attack. Take one petty criminal from Madrid of plausible ethnicity and pay
him some money to hang out with some people who the authorities can associate
with al-Qaeda. After the bomb attack, either plant a bag of unexploded bombs
or find a real dud bag and, while it is in the police station, put a phone
and a phone card from the shop of the petty criminal in the bag. The criminal
is instantly turned into Lee Harvey Oswald, and the bombing attack is instantly
turned into an act of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism.
1. The main suspect, Jamal Zougam appears to have been a petty scammer and
fence who dealt in stolen telephones and credit cards brought to him by a
ring of pickpockets in Madrid. One business associate who had visited him
just before the attack said:
"I know what he is accused of, but this is not the Jamal we know." Mahabur
al-Farhon, who owns a boutique close to Zougam's shop, said:
"When we had a beer together he never talked about religion. He was
more interested in making money."
Zougam is tied into the bombings by a phonecard said to have come from his
shop which was found in the one bag of bombs which did not explode. The reason
it did not explode is supposedly because the trigger for the explosion, a
phone call to a disposable cell phone in the bag, was not made. The reason
the call was not made? Because the terrorists forgot (or because they set
the clock on one detonator for 19:40 rather than 7:40)! The famous bag itself
was found (2) in a police station, where it supposedly had been taken by
the police along with other luggage found at the scene of the bombing. The
Spanish authorities don't seem comfortable with witness statements that Zougam
was on the train, so the fact one of his phones and phonecards were used
really doesn't prove anything except that someone involved may have bought
them from him.
2. A group of radical Muslims had moved into Zougam's neighborhood recently,
but Zougam was never seen in their company. He liked to go to nightclubs,
was interested in sporting the latest fashions, and had boasted about his
many girlfriends. In other words, he was just like Mohamed Atta, another
'Islamic fundamentalist' with decidedly un-fundamentalist choices in lifestyle!
3. Moroccan authorities have identified (3) the three arrested Moroccans
as Jamal Zugam, 30, an office worker, Muhammad Bekkali, 31, a mechanic and
Muhammad Chaui, 34, a factory worker. They are not known to be connected
to terrorism (and the Moroccans appear to be on top of such things). This
is eerily reminiscent of the stolen identities used in the 9-11 attack.
4. The Abu Hafs al Masri Brigade, which took credit for the bombings, may
not actually exist (4).
5. Of the five arrested men, three are said to be Moroccans and two are
supposed to be from India. Although it may be a translation problem, they
were described as being of 'Hindu' (5) origin, odd members for al-Qaeda!
It is interesting that initially the men of 'Hindu' origin were simply being
questioned and were not expected (6) to be arrested.
6. There were no suicide bombers.
If 'Jamal Zougam' (if that is his real name) was involved, and that is certainly
not proven, it seems likely he did it for money rather than for religious
ideals. If so, anyone could have hired him. The complete absence of any timely
claim to have done the act from any known terrorist group makes it highly
unlikely that it was a terrorist act in the traditional sense (I don't see
any of the late claims of responsibility as being credible). The weavers
of stories have already started their work of tying 'Jamal Zougam' into the
web of international Islamic terrorism. Don't believe the hype!
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