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...death squad succeeded in penetrating the crusader European depths and striking one of the pillars of the crusader alliance" and warned that another attack against the U.S. is "90% ready--and coming soon." The New York City police department sent, and Morocco planned to send, teams of investigators to Madrid, and the FBI also offered assistance; all hoped to gather intelligence they might need at home...
...Studies--but no one has verified its role in those attacks. Even so, there is no question that the November bombings of the British consulate and a British-based bank in Istanbul showed that bin Laden's disciples were able to target Western interests at Europe's doorstep. If Madrid turns out to be the Islamists' handiwork, it means al-Qaeda has blasted open the door and stormed inside...
...arrests helped clear the confusion that had descended on Madrid in the aftermath of the attacks. Before anyone knew what was in the sports bag, most Spaniards instinctively fingered ETA, which has killed more than 800 people in a campaign of terror spanning four decades against the Spanish state. Just hours after the attacks, Acebes was adamant that there was "no cause for doubt" that ETA was to blame. Government officials and members of the ruling Popular Party (PP) pointed to what they said were hallmarks of ETA involvement: the bombings took place just three days before Sunday's general...
...which ETA usually gives; the deliberate targeting of civilians; and the sheer scale of the operation. Despite the government's professed certainty of ETA's guilt, doubts began to creep in. Then on Thursday evening, Acebes announced that in Alcala de Henares, a town about 19 miles northeast of Madrid where three of the ill-fated trains had originated and which the fourth had passed through, police found an abandoned white Renault Kangoo van containing seven copper detonators and a tape of Koranic verses recited in Arabic. That discovery harked back to the hours after the attacks in New York...
...through an ETA prism. The Feb. 29 arrest of the alleged ETA operatives with their vanload of explosives was not the only recent attempt foiled by Spanish police. Last Christmas Eve, Spanish police foiled an attempt by two ETA operatives to blow up a train bound for another of Madrid's major train stations, Chamartin. They caught one trying to put a suitcase packed with 62 lbs. of the explosive Titadine on the train before it left and later found another suitcase with 44 lbs. of the explosive already on board. And on Dec. 19, 2002, two men were apprehended...