http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/ international/AP-S pain-Homegrown-Terror.html

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: March 9, 2006
Filed at 11:04 p.m. ET
MADRID, Spain (AP) -- 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 -- a 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.
The attack has been frequently described as al-Qaida-linked since a man who identified himself as Abu Dujan al-Afghani and said he was al-Qaida's ''European military spokesman,'' claimed responsibility in a video released two days later.
Ahead of Saturday's anniversary of the March 11, 2004 blasts -- which killed 191 people and wounded 1,500 -- victims' groups have been clamoring for more progress in the investigation.
Gabriel Moris, whose 30-year-old son died in the bombings, said: ''These past two years have done nothing to clear up what happened. My questions are simple: Who ordered the massacre? Who killed my son and the other innocent victims?''
The intelligence official said authorities know more than they have revealed, including the suspected ideological and operational masterminds of the attack.
''We haven't explained it well enough to the victims because we can't reveal judicial secrets,'' he said, adding the investigation is nearly complete.
Authorities believe the ideological mastermind was Serhan Ben Abdelmajid Fakhet, a Tunisian who blew himself up along with six other suspects when police surrounded their apartment three weeks after the bombings, and that Jamal Ahmidan, a Moroccan who also died that day, was the ''military planner.''
Law enforcement had focused on another man, Allekema Lamari, as the head of the group. But the official said evidence, particularly from wiretapped phone conversations, indicated it was Ahmidan who gave the military orders. Lamari also died in the apartment blast in a Madrid suburb as authorities closed in.
Some 116 people have been arrested in the bombings, and 24 remain jailed. At least three others -- Said Berraj, Mohammed Belhadj and Daoud Ouhane -- are sought by authorities, though all are believed to have fled Spain long ago. The intelligence official said the top planners are all either dead or in jail.
While the plotters of the Madrid attack were likely motivated by bin Laden's October 2003 call for attacks on European countries that supported the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, there is no evidence they were in contact with the al-Qaida leader's inner circle, the intelligence official said.
Most of the plotters were Moroccan and Syrian immigrants, many with criminal records in Spain for drug trafficking and other crimes. They paid for explosives used in the attack with hashish.
That is a far cry from the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States -- allegedly planned by al-Qaida leaders like Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Ramzi Binalshibh and funded directly by the terror network through international wire transfers and Islamic banking schemes.
Paul Wilkinson, chairman of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St. Andrews, in Scotland, said the model used in Madrid, and likely for the July 7 London transport bombings fits in well with al-Qaida's business plan.
''Al-Qaida is not and never was a topdown organization that did everything in terms of attacks around the world. They have a key role in ideological terms ... but they rely on local cells and those that are inspired to carry out these attacks,'' he said.
After the fact, bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahri are happy to claim responsibility because they recognize the carnage as inspired by their movement.

articulo del usatoday... creo que lo teneis complicado....


http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/ 2006-03-09-madr id_x.htm

Y Aznar seguira deciendo que hay
armas de destrucción masiva en Irak.
Si son lo mismo; no tienen cara.

Joder que fuerteee!!!!!!!!
pq tiene tanto miedo el Sr. rajoy,a que juega,que quiere oculatar?
BASATA YAAAAA
Estos quieren seguir con la idea de que fue ETA para desviar como siempre el tema.
Que se acalare ya esto ants de las elecciones por favor,esto es vergonzosooo

¿Alguien puede traducir el primer comentario a algún idioma oficial y de obligado conocimiento por los residentes en España?

A zETAp no le importa, saca otra mochila de la chistera y ale hop, asunto arreglado.

Como decian los progres sociatas, en la manifestación posterior al 11-M, QUIEN A SIDO, Mr. zETAp por que no se lo dice clarito a los españoles.

La independencia del poder judicial ¿significa que si hay indicios racionales de que se han preconstituído pruebas debe continuar el procedimiento?Da miedo hasta escribirlo.

¿DONDE ESTABA LA INDEPENDENCIA DEL PODER JUDICIAL EL DIA DEL ATENTADO PARA DECRETAR EL SECRETO DEL SUMARIO, COSA QUE SE SUELE HACER INCLUSO POR EL ROBO DE UNA GALLINA?¿Y EL DIA DE JORNADA DE REFLEXION DONDE ESTABA LA INDEPENDENCIA DE LOS JUECES PARA ANULAR LAS ELECCIONES POR SALTARSE LOS PARTIDOS POLITICOS DICHA JORNADA, QUE ES UN DERECHO?.... POR FAVOR LLEGAN UN POQUITIN TARDE

Efectivamente, deliran.

Esta gente ha perdido el norte, hace mucho tiempo y desde el 14-M más todavía.

O se deshacende ciertos personajes y "fundaciones" o esta gente va a provocar algún movimiento de la sociedad poco recomendable. La pena es que hay demasiadas persons que se están dejando engañar por esta pandilla de inconscientes.

Se impone la precaución.

Esta claro, siempre estaran en contra de toda justicia,comision o cualquier otra cosa que no diga que fue ETA la autora del atentado, y esto ,lo mantendran aunque salgan mil sentencias que no hablen para nada de ETA,el metiroso acaba creyendose sus mentiras, pasa igual que con los contactos con ETA, digan lo que digan las hemerotecas, ellos lo seguiran negando, paso con las armas de destruccion masiva de Irak, alguien ha oido reconocer que engañaron a sabiendas, no, pues bien claro dijo Aznar en TVE, "creanme Sadam tiene armas de destruccion masiva" SECTA DE MENTIROSOS COMPULSIVOS.