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Friday, May 20, 2005

Something Strange About 3/11 Attacks in Spain

I know that some bloggers have mentioned this over the past few days, but it seems that the story is still relatively quiet...it's also very preliminary and speculative right now. Nevertheless,
It has long been understood that the Spanish socialists shamelessly exploited the March 11, 2004, terrorist attacks in Madrid’s train station for political advantage. They did so with palpable disregard for a frightening fact: The far-reaching geostrategic repercussions of that incident — which vaporized the ruling conservative party’s electoral lead just days before the polling — gave those seeking similar results elsewhere every incentive to engage in violence against other democracies’ electoral processes.

But what if the perpetrators were neither Islamofacists, as the winning socialists immediately asserted, nor the Basque terrorist organization known as ETA, as the government of José Maria Aznar initially (and fatally) assumed?

Spain's El Mundo has some evidence that the Spanish attacks may have been part of an inside job to get rid of a government. I don't know if it's true yet, but it's an interesting read. The Barcepundit has also been following the story.