Report: Madrid Train Bombers Also Targeted New York (Reuters)

[cthrumatrix]

Report: Madrid Train Bombers Also Targeted New York

2 hours, 42 minutes ago World - Reuters



MADRID (Reuters) - The Madrid train bombers had detailed plans of New York's Grand Central Station, indicating they also planned to attack there, a Spanish newspaper reported Wednesday.

Hand-made drawings and other "highly specialized technical information" about the station were found on a computer disk seized from the home of one of the suspects, El Mundo reported, citing sources close to the investigation.


The disk was confiscated within two weeks of the attacks on March 11, 2004, that killed 191 people in Madrid, but Spanish investigators did not warn the FBI (news - web sites) and the CIA (news - web sites) until December when the full scope of the technical information became clear, El Mundo said.


"Prosecutors at the High Court have informed the FBI and the CIA that the perpetrators of the March 11 attacks had in their possession plans to attack Grand Central Station in New York," it said.


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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&ncid=721&e=1&u=/nm/20050302/wl_nm/security_spain_usa_dc

If they really want America to know of "plots"....why aren't they letting Sibel Edmonds testify on her "translations"?

Bush wanted a "transparent" press...like he told Puttie-poot

[underpants]

1. Why did this story break in a newspaper? Where is NSA and Homeland Sec.?

That was my initial reaction to hearing this this morning.

This is frightening but why was the security apparatus of the US Federal government not the one to report this?

[cthrumatrix]

5. this is why you have "gannon's" in the press room for shrubby

these questions would make his head spin

[Drifter]

2. funny how this comes out ...

a day after a poll shows that AWOLs approval rating is beginning to free fall again.

Cheers
Drifter

[napi21]

3. Who did this investigation? Has Shrub pissed off the Spanish

so badly that they weren't willing to communicate info they had to our intelligence community, or did theyy tell someone in the American Gov;t...just not the FBI & CIA?

[spinbaby]

4. Let's see...

Yesterday when I turned on the morning shows, they were yelling about Osama encouraging What's-his-name to attack the "homeland." This morning they're yapping about terrorists bombing Grand Central Station. I wonder what tomorrow morning's terror distraction will be.

[Oreo]

6. Another poster said that Spain is denying it

saying they gave the info to the US immediately and the building plans could have been any building.

If this is true... the gov't released this story now for some reason and lied to say they didn't get the info until December.

Is something going down that we should get ready for? Why else would they do this?

[elehhhhna]

7. Time to report a year-old lead. Bush's numbers in the crapper again.

[cthrumatrix]

8. that should be the question for the WH ...I thought they wanted truth?

[RamboLiberal]

9. Cops Play Down NYC Terror Plot - Ray Kelly

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/02/national/main677527.shtml

A crude sketch of Grand Central Terminal was found at the home of a suspect in the Madrid train bombings, but was not considered cause for alarm, New York City's police commissioner said Wednesday.

The one-page, hand-drawn document "was a very basic schematic," Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. "It's not an operational plan. It's not something that would indicate an immediate threat."

The newspaper El Mundo in Spain reported that the drawing and other data were on a computer disk seized about two weeks after the train bombings in Madrid that killed 191 people on March 11, 2004.

Spanish police turned the disk over to the FBI and CIA in December. Kelly said the material was also shared with the New York Police Department's counterterrorism division and city transit officials, who concluded the sketch depicted Grand Central.

But CBS News Correspondent Sheila MacVicar reported one Spanish source said that neither Spanish authorities or U.S. officials put much credence in the sketch, saying it doesn't look very much like Grand Central Terminal.