28-10-2006, 22:20:43
Interesante también lo último que decía "The Daily/Sunday Telegraph" sobre los atentados hace un mes. Interesante no por lo que dice (pues simplemente se hace eco del informe de los servicios secretos españoles publicado por El País, relacionando el 11-M con Irak), sino por quién lo dice, ya que este periódico australiano es propiedad nada más y nada menos que de Rupert Murdoch. ¡Y ni una mención a ETR, oiga!
Quote:Al-Qaeda and Iraq prompted Madrid bombingsTambién una de sus principales periodistas, Anita Quigley, se manifestaba exactamente en el mismo sentido en su blog:
September 29, 2006 12:00
THE war in Iraq and al-Qaeda provided the stimulus for the March 11, 2004 terrorist attacks in Madrid which left 191 dead and 1900 injured, according to a Spanish secret police report quoted today by El Pais.
"The thinking'' behind the Madrid attacks "is the same as that followed by the al-Qaeda strategists and those behind the war in Iraq,'' the 443-page report from the intelligence agency said.
The report recalled the threats made by "al-Qaeda leaders like (Osama bin Laden's right-hand man Ayman) al-Zawahiri'' in 2003 against the countries which, like Spain, were taking part in the international military coalition led by the United States in Iraq.
"Spanish troops in Iraq and Spanish interests outside Iraq were chosen as targets for terrorist attacks,'' the report said, recalling the threats made at the time against Spain by bin Laden.
The report stressed that the alleged perpetrators of the attacks in Madrid had looked at a document on the "Global Islamic media'' internet site which suggested which targets to attack in order to "provoke a change in government'' or to "obtain a withdrawal of the Spanish troops in Iraq".'
The attacks took place three days before Spanish general elections on March 14, 2004 and contributed to the surprise win by the opposition Socialist party led by Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero against the incumbent conservative party led by Jose Maria Aznar, an ally of US President George W. Bush.
Mr Zapatero's first political decision was to withdraw Spanish troops from Iraq as he had promised during his electoral campaign.
Spanish courts are holding 29 people for their involvement in the attacks on suburban trains coming into Madrid's Alocha railway station. They are mostly Moroccan radicals who live in Spain.
Their trial, expected to last six months, should open in early February 2007.
Quote:Professor Pape this week also briefed the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, which oversees Australia's intelligence agencies, including ASIO. He warned that al-Qa'ida had a ``sophisticated understanding of coercion'', and that plans drawn up for the Madrid bombings revealed the group's perceived value in hitting a democratic country about to go to the polls. ``We think that the Spanish government could not tolerate more than two, maximum three, blows after which it will have to withdraw as a result of popular pressure,'' the plans state