According to the (right wing) Spanish newpapers: "El Mundo" and "Libertad Digital" there is a major scandal cooking about the chain of events who led to Socialist’s victory in the Spanish elections. It looks like the Spanish government was deliberately fed wrong information during the investigation. That false information made it appear as lying to the electorate. It also looks like a possible framing of a group of islamists.1) For instance the governement was told the explosives were Titadyne (pointing to ETA) instead of Goma 2 (ETA hasn’t used for years). According to the article no explosives expert can make the mistake since they smell completely different.
2) Bags who failed to explode were destroyed (and the proofs with them ) by the police alleging they had no disarming experts in place. However the Guardia Civil (a part of the Spanish Armed Forces acting as police for rural zones) had experts at hand but its offers of collaboration were dismissed
3) There was one bag who was not distroyed and in that bag they found the mobile phone who led to first arrests.
4) Someone phoned to the police about a suspicious white van near the Alcala de Henares railway station. It was searched and arabic tapes and explosives were found under one of the seats. Funny thing is that the tapes contained material for elementary learning of Koran, when your average islamist has memorized it. Second funny thing is that van had already been searched by a sniffing dog who found nothing. Third funny thing: the van was supposed to have travelled to Asturias to pick the explosives. But the mileage doesn’t add: it has run for 200 km since it was stolen while the round trip is over 700 km.
5) Once the rest of the ring was located and the GEOS (equivalent of Swat people) were sent to arrest them there was no attempt to negotiate, soften them, deprive them from sleep, before trying to capture them and later make them speak. Instead an immediate assault was ordered on the unsoftened islamists, result was they blew themselves, killing one of the Geos and destroying any hope of getting more info from them. Note: This night the corpse of the GEO has been profaned and then burnt with gasoline.
6) The composition of the terrorist ring is unusual for Al Quaida who never uses criminals with a police record and never uses non-muslims. The modus operandi of the ring is also unusual for half competent terrorists: NO compartimentalization and they kept in contact after the attacks. If you read Spanish you can look here for the reaction of Aznar’s successor. |