News from the trial about the Madrid bombings
This comes straight from the trial and can be crosschecked with the original ie judicial sources
First new: The mini-van with explosives and coranic tapes was empty
Context: The police found a mini-van near one of the railway stations containing coranic tapes and explosives. This was the first clue about Islamic involvement.
Now the policeman who found the mini-van has declared uynderr oath that the mini-van was empty. In case he is not lying that would mean that someone faked an islamic clue in order to overturn the elections.
Second new: The informer is giving names in the police
He is telling that he was pressured into giving false testimony during the investigation in order to silence contacts with ETA, that he shadowed the Tunisian (one of those who suicided a few days after the bombings) and that went to a rendez-vous with the police, that the Tunisian discussed about asking ETA to sell them explosives, that on April 3 he was brought from Almeria to Madrid in 3 hours and half (that means an average speed of 100 mph) and ordered to go to a flat where the islamists where assembled and lean what they were doing but he smelt something fishy and refused. He is persuaded that if he had gone, he would have been between the dead. After taht he told the names of the policemen who had been pressuring him.
Note: Zapatero was elected on the basis that Aznar had brought disaster on Spain and that was not involved at all. Later he had followed policy of gviving concession behind concession to ETA. People would not be happy to learn they have been tricked into voting for Zapatero and that this one has rewarded mass-murderers
Posted by: JFM 2007-03-07 |