Madrid Bombings Show No al-Qaida Ties

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By PAUL HAVEN, Associated Press Writer
2 hours, 4 minutes ago

MADRID, Spain - A two-year probe into the Madrid train bombings concludes the Islamic terrorists who carried out the blasts were homegrown radicals acting on their own rather than at the behest of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network, two senior intelligence officials said.

Spain still remains home to a web of radical Algerian, Moroccan and Syrian groups bent on carrying out attacks — and aiding the insurgency against U.S. troops in Iraq — the Spanish intelligence chief and a Western official intimately involved in counterterrorism measures in Spain told The Associated Press.

The intelligence chief said there were no phone calls between the Madrid bombers and al-Qaida and no money transfers. The Western official said the plotters had links to other Islamic radicals in Western Europe, but the plan was hatched and organized in Spain. "This was not an al-Qaida operation," he said. "It was homegrown."

Both men spoke on condition of anonymity, the first because Spanish security officials are not allowed to discuss details of an ongoing investigation and the second due to the sensitive nature of his job.

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[CovertOP]

1. Probably because

Al-Qeada does not exist! That would be a really good reason.
BBC documetary The Power of Nightmares.
Free yourself from this incessant bullshit once and for all!

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3. Right On

glad Im not the only one that sees this (I was cast out as some crazy conspiracy nut loser in another post earlier because of my website which actually had this film for sometime (trying to re-encode but having problems)

[Roland99]

2. FWIW, LBN discussion

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2156512