Barry Chamish
WHY THE MADRID BOMBINGS
Mon Mar 22 17:04:00 2004
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WHY THE MADRID BOMBINGS
by Barry Chamish - chamish@netvision.net.il
http://www.barrychamish.com

(Many of the following concepts will be unfamiliar to those who have not been following my research steadily. It is the author's contention that Spain is playing a central, though covert, role in Middle East diplomacy, believing it has a God-given, if Medieval, right to rule Israel and especially Jerusalem. Its Jesuit King, Juan Carlos, owns the title, Protector Of The Holy Places Of Jerusalem, and he takes the responsibility seriously, as do his superiors in Rome. For an overview of the hidden role of Spain, visit http://www.barrychamish.com  )

The Spanish people are clamoring to know who was responsible for the March '04
bombings which killed over 200 of their people. They will not receive a true answer. They will be told Al Qaida did the deed in retaliation for Spain's support of the Iraq invasion and will display some Moslem bombers as proof.
The more conspiratorial analyses places the blame on the Bush/Blair New World Order gang who fomented another atrocity to justify their war on terror and give a boost
to its flagging popularity. All such proponents point to the conveniently found van with the Koranic audiotape beside the unignited bombs as a set-up, like the 9-11 van with the Koran and 767 flight manual found in Boston.
The Spanish government lied to its people, claiming ETA, the Basque separatists,
were the main suspects and were thrown out of power in national elections a few days later,
which seemed to be a motive for the outrage in the first place.
The lie was formulated to keep the public off the real trail of the bombings, which leads to
Spain's secret role in the Middle East, as well as its goal of eliminating Israel by shoving a suicidal "peace" process down its throat. The leaders of the Middle East know Spain controls their fate, and that all diplomatic roads pass through Madrid.
But the rest of humanity remains ignorant of Spain's covert power. Let us try and clear the fog with the events that led to the slaughter in Madrid as seen through the media. My commentary will begin and end with two stars **.

We begin the journey that led to the bombings on Aug. 18 '03. On that day, the PA prime minister Abbas, and his foreign minister Shaat, announced they would be visiting Damascus on September 8. The announcement was made as Spain's Foreign Minister is in Damascus announcing that his king will be visiting Syria that autumn.
So, the story begins as the PA, Syria and King Juan Carlos plot to coordinate diplomacy.

http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/030818/2003081807.html
Abbas to meet with al-Assad in Syria in September
Syria-Palestine, Politics, 8/18/2003
Palestinian foreign affairs minister Nabil Shaath said that the Palestinian prime minister Mahmoud Abbas will visit Damascus in September.

Shaath explained following his talks with the Syrian foreign minister Farouk al-Shara in Damascus that the Palestinian leadership wants to deepen consultation and coordination with each of Syria and Lebanon concerning the peace process in the region.

The Palestinian minister said that Abbas will meet during the forthcoming visit with President Bashar al-Assad. http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/syria/?id=6468
Spain's King to visit Syria

Spain's economy minister announces King Juan Carlos, Queen Sofia are to visit Syria in autumn.

DAMASCUS - King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia of Spain are to visit Syria in the autumn, Spanish Economy Minister Rodrigo Rato said here Monday.
Rato told a news conference that he had informed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of the visit.
Assad and his wife Asma paid an official visit to Spain in May 2001 - the couple's first to a Western country after Assad took power in July 2000.
Rato, who arrived in Damascus Sunday night, said his own visit also aimed to "strengthen economic relations" between the two countries, particularly in the tourism, transport and industry sectors.
He said Spain supports Syria "economically and politically", adding that Damascus is important in the quest for peace in the Middle East.
Spain also supports talks to broker a partnership agreement between Syria and the European Union, the minister said.
A Syrian-Spanish accord giving Damascus five million dollars was signed Monday, Rato added.

** Now why would Spain commit itself to pushing for a Syrian partnership agreement with the EU? What could Syria offer the EU but some canned dates and its fine human rights record? Note the $5 million bribe to Assad and ask what was behind it. The PA's prime minister lands in Damascus on September 8 and look at the reaction on September 9. **

Article....
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0309/S00113.htm
Powell, Palacio Discuss Middle East, Iraq, UN

Tuesday, 9 September 2003, 9:34 pm
Press Release: US State Department

http://english.daralhayat.com/world_news/09-2003/20030913-20030913-9a701d2b-c0a8-01ed-0036-3068473ecbbf/story.html
Spanish Foreign Minister Says Israeli Threat To Expel Arafat Is A Big Mistake
....."We (the Spanish government) have always said that Arafat has been part of the solution and the decision by the Israeli government (to expel him) is a big mistake," she told reporters.
...Palacio spoke at a joint press conference with Syrian counterpart Farouk al-Sharaa after arriving in Damascus on the first leg of a three-nation tour, which includes Iraq and Kuwait.
...Palacio said her talks with al-Sharaa focused on Israel's threat to expel Arafat, plus Iraq.
...She said Syria and Spain shared some basic principles, including the role some regional players could have in Iraq's reconstruction and returning that country to its rightful place in the international community.
Al-Sharaa said Syria and Spain have identical views on Iraq, including the maintenance of its integrity and "getting rid of the foreign occupation as soon as possible."
He said both states also believed in the formation of a legitimate Iraqi government elected by Iraqi people.

** The PA prime minister has just left and a day later Spain's Foreign Minister announced that he will be meeting with Colin Powell of the Council On Foreign Relations (CFR). And where was the announcement made but in Damascus? But look what else is in the Spanish FM's repartee. First comes the defence of Arafat against Israeli threats to expel him for his direction of terror against their country. Then come what have to be huge lies. Do Spain and Syria really hold "identical views" on Iraq? Is Spain really in favor of "getting rid of the foreign occupation" or its American and British partners, in Iraq?
Or was Spain threatened by Syria with terrifying violence?
When Palacio met Powell did she pass on the message that if American troops don't get out of Iraq, Syria would pulverize us at home? She most certainly did, but since the troops are still there, Powell obviously didn't pay heed, or care.
However, Powell and his CFR backers must have given Spain still another assignment...Libya. **

http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters09-17-131342.asp?reg=MIDEAST
Spanish PM makes historic Libya visit
A Spanish government source said Aznar's ground-breaking trip was aimed at helping bring Libya back into the international fold.
Spain would like to see Libya play a bigger role in the partnership between the 15-nation European Union and 12 Mediterranean countries. Libya has observer status in the grouping at present.

** And now we know who was behind Libya renouncing its weapons of mass destruction. Little old Spain must have carried one nasty message to persuade Libya to return to the fold. And in the process, Spain must have angered not a few of Libya's terrorist allies.
Now we step forward to October 4 when Maxim's Restaurant was bombed in Haifa, killing 22, including members of one of Israel's most prestigious military families. Israel reacts by bombing empty warehouses in Syria.
But note Syria's reaction to the futile attack on its soil. It threatens to re-open the MADRID conference of 1991, a very peculiar threat indeed and one which must have meant something to those in the know in Israel.
Spain, apparently got the message, condemned Israel's attack and stepped up Juan Carlos' visit to Damascus. **

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/347908.html

Syria vows military response if Israeli attacks continue

Last paragraph
Asked if that meant militarily, he said: "By all
means. If Israel continues to attack us and
continues its aggression of course we shall
react to the attacks in spite of the fact that
we are fighting for peace and wish to reopen
the (1991) Madrid (peace) conference."

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=7460
Spanish king meets Syrian leader in Damascus
....Madrid condemned Israel's raid on a suspected militant Palestinian training camp near Damascus on October 5 - the first such attack in 30 years and one which Washington regarded as self-defence.
The English-language government daily, Syria Times, hailed the royal visit as "an important event" that will "rectify the holes in the relations between the Arabs and the West" and "play a significant role in the dialogue between Islam and Christianity".
Talks will redress the "many misunderstanding in the West about Syria's attitudes towards Iraq and Palestinian resistance," the paper added.
Spanish diplomats say the trip is intended to foster "intensified political dialogue" between Damascus, Madrid and the European Union.
For the past six years, Syria has been negotiating a partnership accord with Brussels due to be signed at the end of 2003, after Assad ordered discussions to be stepped up a gear.

http://www.europedaily.com/p/0f/553df16bb687.html?id=16bc11b

http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/031017/2003101701.html
king of Spain to visit Syria
Syria-Spain, Politics, 10/17/2003
At the invitation of President Bashar al-Assad and his Wife, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia of Spain pay an official visit to Syria during the period from 19 to 23 of the current month.

** And now Juan Carlos is in Damascus and the fun begins. We have already observed that the Syrians are doing their best to drive a wedge between Spain and America, or more precisely, the CFR.
Now observe the machinations. While Juan Carlos is in Damascus, Yossi Beilin is in Geneva formulating an alternative diplomacy which gives the Arabs all they want. Once the ink is on the paper, Beilin flies to Washington to meet with Powell. A concerted effort is being made to appease the Arabs at the cost of Israel's basic security.
However,,Spain offers Syria the ultimate appeasement; a renewed Syrian empire if it behaves itself. **

.....al-Assad visits Spain to inaugurate the role of the Umayyads with KJC and other officials.....two days later PJP visits Syria to visit the Umayyad Temple and call for inter-faith dialogue. Interesting the way visits go.......KJC visits Spain Oct. 19 just after the Geneva Accord is announced but just before it is signed in Geneva on Nov. 4th.
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/010504/2001050413.html

Damascus 18-10 (SANA)-

President Bashar al-Assad, in a speech opening the Fair of "From Damascus to Cordova" during a visit he paid with the First lady to Spain, said " the Arab civilization in Andalusia was an important era marked with accord, tolerance, social and intellectual richness among different peoples. That era transferred the civilization from Shami-Andalusia to Arab-Andalusia, creating a sort of civilization merger that it was impossible to attain without the dialogue among civilizations".

Syria has always sought as a strategic aim for dialogue, not conflict, among civilizations, and has always called for fostering meeting points among cultures of different peoples, for the creation of a civilized, harmonious mixture that takes humanity to higher levels.

From this point of view, Syria looks for the forthcoming visit of His Majesty King of Spain Juan Carlos and Her Majesty Queen Sofia, and warmly welcomes their Majesties The Royal Couple in Damascus, capital of the Omayads who were the first to establish and deepen the dialogue of civilizations when they set for Europe and the world through Andalusia to spread their message of tolerance. They also carried with them the latest digest of human thinking in various fields of knowledge, assisted by the fertile land in Andalusia, for long the settling point for different ancient civilizations. That climate led to a unique state of interaction and communication among civilizations in the Omayad-Andalusia epoch, and became an example for the whole world. Cordova at that time attracted Europe as a source of new knowledge in philosophy, arts, architecture, poetry and literatures.

We also pin great hopes on this visit for strengthening existing relations of cooperation between Syria and Spain, and through her with the European countries to further deepen a constructive dialogue and the establishment of a real partnership based on reciprocal respect, equity and mutual benefit. We hope that the European countries would take a more active role in building world peace, establishing security and stability in the Middle East region by bringing about a just and comprehensive peace and the return of rights to their owners so that this would be positively reflected on the region's prosperity and for the sake of dialogue, not conflict, among civilizations.

Welcome to His Majesty King of Spain, to Her Majesty Queen of Spain, to Damascus the land civilizations and cradle of divine faiths which call for amity and peace.

http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/popsyr.htm
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/10/13/genevaaccord031013
The 'Geneva Accord' will be released with great ceremony in Switzerland on Nov. 4.


Nov. 27, 2003
Accusations mar London talks; Israeli-PA forum in Madrid
By JPOST.COM STAFF
Madrid: International forum seeking a solution to the Israel-Palestinian problem
Meanwhile, Israeli Knesset members and Palestinian administration officials are meeting in Madrid as guests of an international forum seeking a solution to the Israel-Palestinian problem, Israel Radio reported Friday.
Among the guests are also ex-US ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk, ex-EU special envoy Miguel Morratinos, ex-Jordanian foreign minister Abdullah Hativ and Spanish government officials.
Israeli delegates include MK Gideon Sa'ar (Likud, MKs Dalia Itzik and Danny Yatom (Labor) and MK Ahmed Tibi (Balad). Mohammed Dahlan and Nabil Sha'at are representing the Palestinian side.

** Now how do you like that? Look who's meeting in MADRID just a month after Juan Carlos'
sojourn in Damascus? Why its the creme de la creme of the Israeli government and parliamentary opposition, the head tyrants of the PA, the one and only Martin Indyk of Oslo fame, all meeting Spanish officials. Now what makes MADRID such a magnet for these NWO bigshots?
Whatever came of these meetings, the world public is not privileged to know. But immediately after, Pres. Bush made us all privy to the consensus. Whatever the BARCELONA process may be, it was central to his State Of The Union address: **

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=reutersEdge&storyID=4159384

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The United States is seeking to engage European allies in President Bush's drive for democracy in the greater Middle East, partly to heal the rifts of the Iraq war.

U.S. officials say involving Europeans through both NATO and the European Union in the initiative launched by Bush late last year is one of the administration's top priorities for 2004.

Bush is expected to give more pointers to his approach in his State of the Union message to Congress Tuesday.

"We are looking at ways to work better together with the EU on the greater Middle East, in security, economically and in promoting democracy and human rights, as we did in the Cold War toward Eastern Europe," a U.S. official in Brussels

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