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EXPLOSIVES DISCOVERED 11 DAYS PRIOR TO MARCH 11 MADRID TRAIN
Tue Mar 16 16:06:49 2004
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EXPLOSIVES DISCOVERED 11 DAYS PRIOR TO MARCH 11 MADRID TRAIN BOMBING

by Michael Edward

According to AAP and AFP news wires released on March 2, 2004, Spain, and especially Madrid, had been on a maximum anti-terrorist alert - 11 days prior to the Madrid bombing - due to "the discovery of a massive cache of explosives" on Sunday, February 28. The Spanish Government had also publicly stated that they expected attacks to disrupt the coming elections on March 14.

Several planned attacks in Madrid had recently been foiled, including one this past Christmas Eve when ETA was accused of trying to blow up a train in the capital's Chamartin railway station.

"Interior Minister Angel Acebes said Sunday [February 28] that police had arrested two members of the Basque separatist organization ETA and intercepted a truck with more than half a ton of explosives as it was heading toward Madrid," as quoted by AFP.

Their arrest led police to an explosives-laden pick-up truck at Cuenca, 170 kilometers east of Madrid. Interior Minister Acebes stated that they had learned from the arrest that an attack had been planned in coming days, but he gave no specific details.

Here we have a truck with more than 1,500 pounds of explosives that is seized on its way to Madrid, along with the arrest of two men who apparently confess of a specific attack. Yet, the Spanish authorities refused to give any details.

Like the old adage says, Where there's smoke, there's fire. First, a definite plan to blow up a train in Madrid had been known by Spanish authorities 78 days prior to the March 11 bombing. Secondly, explosives heading to Madrid are intercepted 11 days prior to the bombing.

With their gathered intelligence pointing to a very obvious Madrid train bombing by ETA Basque separatists, common sense would tell you that the odds of such a bombing were overwhelming. But somehow, it still happened.

Meanwhile, U.S. authorities are stating that "Muslim extremists" played a role in the Madrid railway bombings. Has the ETA group traded in their centuries of Basque heritage to overnight become Neo-Muslim extremists?

All this makes one wonder if the Madrid train massacre wasn't just another planned scenario by the "powers that be" for their purported War on Muslims... err, Terrorism.

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