-----Original Message-----
From: Luke
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 5:41 PM
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Subject: more from madrid


"The three Moroccans were implicated in the 11 March bombings by a piece of plastic, snapped off from a SIM card when it was inserted into the mobile phone found in the single rucksack bomb that failed to go off 10 days ago. This allowed investigators to trace the mobile back to the Nuevo Siglo (New Century) phone shop owned by the men."
ok - so now we are seeing some more shapeshifting - it seems all of the unanswered questions have forced the liars onto the back foot. now we see that we found the terrorists by chasing down the snapoff bit from a sim. aint luck grand. thankfully the errorist put the snapoff rubbish in his bag which luckily didnt explode. blessed. actually, it would make more sense to track down the sim to see where it was sold - presumably sims are unique, presumably they didnt need to rely on a snapoff. i wonder if they tracked down to see where the bag was bought, and the clothes and tapes in the van. of if they just got lucky tracking down where the sim was bought and finding a spideyhole of terrorists.


" eyewitness accounts from survivors of the massacre in Madrid indicate the bombs were left behind by terrorists who got off the trains before they exploded."
id have thought that anyone close enough to most of the bags to notice would have been blown up. were there eyewitnesses for all bombs or the one that didnt explode? who on a train notices other people getting off - and can somehow identify them as the owner of the bag? remember the 'not a suicide bomber' story began not long after the bombings.


"The (absence of suiciders) raises at least two questions for investigators. Could it mean their repression of al-Qaeda and its allies in Europe has been so effective that the terrorists now feel a need to conserve their human resources? Or is it simple pragmatism: why sacrifice a trained jihadi when a bomb can be detonated remotely?
If it is the latter, then the implications are chilling. Future bombers, like those who struck in Madrid, will be in a position to strike again."
ok - where to start? murder is chilling, sure. but most murder is non-suicide. and with a billion or 2 muslims, no-one really ever thought that we'd run out of suicide bombers - so from that perspective, its irrelevant, and not really chilling. and the idea of effective counter-terrorism is laughable. and u dont need a trained jihadi to do a suiciode bomb. and i thought the trainbombs were exploded using the clock on cell phones - and *not* detonated remotely.

madrid is looking more and more like 911 - we can maybe expect aznar to turn up with a flap of one of the exploded backpacks as a souvenir...