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Spain stops suicide bomber

2007-10-12

A Frenchman of Moroccan origin caught with a crude bomb was a potential suicide attacker — not a despondent, jilted lover as he originally told police — and a Spanish judge has ordered him held on suspicion of terrorism, newspapers said Friday. The 30-year-old was stopped at a routine highway checkpoint Sunday in the northeast Catalonia region shortly after he drove across the border from France. Police found his car to be carrying two butane gas canisters fitted with large firecrackers, and a samurai sword. The man told police he wanted to committed suicide because his partner had left him, Catalan police said Monday on their web site. Police said then that they did not know why he drove all the way from his home in the Alsace region of France to kill himself in Spain. But investigators eventually found the man to be in possession of two Arabic-language letters — one praising jihad, or holy war, and another in which he said goodbye to his family, and while in custody they observed he had shaved his body completely. They said this is a common act among suicide bombers who see it as a way to die in a state of cleanliness and purity, El Mundo said. Investigators concluded the man may have been planning a suicide attack targeting a building in Barcelona, El Mundo and El Pais said. Judge Juan del Olmo of the National Court questioned the suspect Thursday and ordered him held in jail on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack, the papers said. The judge also ordered a psychiatric evaluation of the man, they said.

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Madrid bombing suspect loses last appeal in UK

2007-03-01

Spaniard Moutaz Almallah Dabas, who was arrested in Britain for his alleged links to the Madrid bombing, on Wednesday lost his last bid to avoid extradition to Spain for trial. Five judges of the House of Lords rejected an appeal lodged by the Syrian-born Dabas, brother of Mouhannad Almallah Dabas, one of the 29 people currently on trial in Spain for their alleged roles in the March, 2004 attacks. The nearly simultaneous backpack-bomb explosions on four rush-hour commuter trains killed 191 people and wounded nearly 2,000 others in the worst terrorist attack in Spanish history. Prosecutors contend that those who carried out the massacre did so as an act of "holy war" terrorism motivated by radical Islamic fundamentalism. The Chamber of Lords, which constitutes the highest court in Britain, rejected arguments by attorneys for Dabas that he might be subjected to cruel conditions or even torture in Spain if extradited. Dabas was arrested in March, 2005 in Slough, west London, on a warrant issued by Spanish Judge Juan del Olmo. The alleged terrorist collaborator previously had lost a bid in London's High Court to block extradition after a British magistrate had ruled that he should be sent to Madrid for trial. Spanish prosecutors say the Dabas brothers conspired with several of those implicated in the massacre.

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New 'ringleader' charged with Madrid train bombings

2007-03-01

The judge investigating the Madrid train bombings on Wednesday accused a new suspect of being a ringleader of the attacks. Judge Juan del Olmo accused Moroccan Abdelilah Hriz, 29, of being a ‘material author’ of the bombings. Hriz, who is currently in prison in Morocco, was allegedly linked to the attacks by DNA found on a comb and blood-stained trousers found at the flat and a house where a number of the leading suspects were staying. Del Olmo went to Morocco to get a sample of DNA from Hriz last year. Hriz has now been charged in connection with causing the deaths of 191 people, the attempted murder of 1,811 people who were hurt in the bombings and helping to mount four terrorist attacks.

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Spanish Police Arrest 5 in Train Bombing

2007-01-03

MADRID, Spain (AP) -- Police have arrested five men who could have aided the escape of two fugitives of the 2004 Madrid train bombings, Spain's interior minister said Wednesday. Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said each of the five, who are also suspected of ties with international terrorism, was detained in a different Spanish city - Barcelona, Tarragona, Gerona, Cadiz and A Coruna. The five, identified as Zohaib Khadiri, Djilali Boussiri, Nasreddine Ben Laid Amri, Samir Tahtah and Kamal Ahbar, may have collaborated in the escape of two fugitives of the Madrid bombings, Moroccans Mohamed Belhadj and Mohamed Afalah, Rubalcaba said. "This operation has led to arrest of five men suspected of links with the March 11 bombings" Rubalcaba said. He added that the operation had been ordered by National Court Judge Juan del Olmo, who is probing the blasts aboard four commuter trains that killed 191 people and injured more than 1,500. The bombings were blamed on a group of mostly North African Muslim extremists. Belhadj, along with Said Berraj and Daoud Ouhane, is sought by authorities, although all are believed to have fled Spain long ago. Afalah is believed to have blown himself up in Iraq. One never tires of hearing reports such as that. The nationalities of the detained and other details of the arrests were not immediately available. At least one of the detained, Tahtah, was already in prison for another terrorism case. Tahtah was ordered jailed last year on charges of belonging to a Syrian-based network that recruited suicide bombers to attack U.S. troops in Iraq. Police said they found forged documentation and cash in the raids.

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More on the 3/11 indictments

2006-04-12

A Spanish judge indicted 29 people Tuesday for alleged roles in the deadly 2004 Madrid train bombings and concluded that the attack was carried out by a local radical Islamic cell that was inspired but not directed by al-Qaeda. After a two-year investigation, Judge Juan del Olmo handed down a 1,471-page report and the first indictments, charging six people with 191 counts of terrorist murder and 1,755 attempted murders. The 23 other people were charged with collaborating in the plot. Explosives-filled backpacks were detonated by cell phones on the morning of March 11, 2004, ripping apart four rush-hour commuter trains. One hundred ninety-one people died and 1,800 were injured in what remains Europe's second-worst attack by terrorists after the 1988 downing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. The bombers' alleged ideological leader and six other men blew themselves up three weeks after the attack as police closed in on their Madrid apartment hide-out. But several of the people indicted Tuesday are described as senior members of the conspiracy. They include Jamal Zougam, 32, a Moroccan. He is accused as a material author of the synchronized attack and charged with murder, attempted murder and membership in a terrorist group. According to the indictment, Zougam supplied the cell phones that detonated the 10 backpacks used in the attacks. In addition, four witnesses identified him as having placed dark blue bags under different seats on trains that blew up. Youssef Belhadj, Hassam El Haski and Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed -- known as "Mohamed the Egyptian" and currently on trial in Italy on separate terrorism charges -- are also accused of membership in a terror group, murder and attempted murder. Jose Emilio Suarez Trashorras, a former miner who allegedly provided the bombers with plastic explosives stolen from a mine in northern Spain, was charged with 192 murders. They included that of a policeman who was killed during the attempt to arrest suspected bombers at the Madrid apartment. The judge discussed the local nature of the conspiracy at length in his report. "If it is true that the operative capacity of al Qaeda has lessened in the past few years, it is not noticeable in a sustained decrease in its activity," del Olmo wrote. "From the point of view of the threat, regional networks and local groups have acquired greater importance." Del Olmo highlighted a trend of Moroccans and Algerians working together in radical Islamic groups in Spain. "It is a very noteworthy change, given that until relatively recently Algerian groups in Spain were homogenous in so far as nationality, and the relationship between Moroccan and Algerian jihadists was scarce," he wrote. The 29 indicted people include 15 Moroccans, one Algerian, one Egyptian, one Lebanese, one Syrian and one Syrian with Spanish nationality. Also indicted were nine Spaniards, most on charges of having helped the bombers obtain their explosives. According to Del Olmo, the bombers studied a report posted on the Web site of the Global Islamic Media Front in which a committee of al-Qaeda experts suggested an attack in Spain before the general elections of March 14, 2004. At the time, Spain had 1,300 troops in Iraq as part of the U.S.-led forces. The indictment details Spanish intelligence warnings to then-Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar that Spain was one of a group of European countries at high risk of an Islamic terrorist attack. The bombings took place three days before the election. Aznar initially blamed the Basque separatist group ETA. But as evidence mounted of Islamic involvement, Spanish voters turned against Aznar and unseated his Popular Party. The Socialist Party, led by Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, won the election and quickly fulfilled a campaign promise to pull Spanish troops out of Iraq. Some people in Spain have speculated that ETA helped the bombers in some way. The indictment draws no such link. "The judge has only addressed what evidence there is," a court spokeswoman said. A trial is likely to begin next year.

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Willful ignorance on the Madrid bombings

2006-03-22

Therefore we say that to force the Spanish government to withdraw from Iraq the resistance has to measured by painful strikes against their forces and accompanying this a informative campaign clarifying the truth of the situation inside Iraq, and we must absolutely gain from the approaching date of general elections in Spain in the third month of the coming year. We believe that the Spanish government will not endure two or three attacks as a maximum limit because it will be forced to withdraw afterwards due to the popular pressure on it, for if its forces remain after these strikes it is almost certain the Socialist forces will win the elections, as one of the main goals of the Socialist party will be the withdrawal of the Spanish troops . . . the dominoes will fall quickly, although the basic problem will remain of toppling the first piece. -Iraq al-Jihad, circa August 2003 "MADRID TRAIN BOMBINGS PROBE FINDS NO AL-QAEDA LINK" was the headline of a widely-circulated Associated Press story two weeks ago. Citing a "Spanish intelligence chief" and a "Western official intimately involved in counterterrorism measures in Spain," the AP reported that "A two-year probe into the Madrid train bombings concludes the Islamic terrorists who carried out the blasts were homegrown radicals acting on their own rather than at the behest of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network." While acknowledging that the masterminds behind the attack were "likely motivated by bin Laden's October 2003 call for attacks on European countries that supported the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq" and that "the plotters had links to other Muslim radicals in western Europe," the AP cited the Spanish intelligence chief as saying that there were "no telephone calls between the Madrid bombers and al Qaeda and no money transfers" and "no evidence they were in contact with the al Qaeda leader's inner circle." Such a view is by no means new. Indeed, in June 2005 Dateline NBC reported that "Madrid is cited as the key turning point in the evolution of Islamic terror. Initially, Spanish and U.S. counterterrorism officials sought links between al-Qaeda (or, as the CIA now describes it, 'al-Qaeda Central'). But quickly they realized there weren't any. . . . It required no central direction from the mountains of Pakistan, simply a charismatic leader with links to men trained in the war in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union." SUCH A VIEW is no doubt attractive, but there are serious problems with it. As the March 11 Commission (an independent Spanish investigation into the attacks parallel to the U.S. 9/11 Commission) noted, there were numerous connections between the masterminds of the 3/11 attacks, al Qaeda, and a number of known al Qaeda associate groups including Ansar al-Islam, the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (and its offshoot Salafi Jihad), and Abu Musab Zarqawi's al Qaeda in Iraq (then al-Tawhid wal Jihad). There is also the al Qaeda strategy document Iraq al-Jihad, which appears to lay out in detail plans for attacks in Spain several months prior to the country's elections. According to the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment (FFI)'s report on the motivations of Islamist terrorism in Europe, "The researchers from the FFI consider it likely that the terrorists behind the Madrid massacre were familiar with the contents of this strategy document" as well as that "the evidence leaves few doubts that the attacks in Madrid were carried out by al-Qaeda affiliates in Spain." Most importantly, the March 11 Commission identified former Egyptian army explosives expert Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed as one of the planners of the Madrid bombings. According to an arrest warrant issued by Spanish judge Juan del Olmo, Ahmed is "a suspected member of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad" who "took over leadership of a group of followers of extremist Islamist ideology, supporters of the Jihad and of Osama bin Laden" while living in Madrid. Now on trial in Milan for international terrorism, Ahmed was wiretapped by Italian authorities telling an associate that "The Madrid attack is my project and those who died as martyrs are my dearest friends." Given that Egyptian Islamic Jihad is currently headed by al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri, one would think that such a statement from one of its members, to say nothing of various statements from senior Spanish and Italian law enforcement and judicial officials, would settle the issue of al Qaeda involvement in the Madrid train bombings once and for all. (Moreover, a key piece of the Spanish intelligence chief's claims, that no money transfers occurred between al Qaeda and the masterminds of the Madrid bombings, may also be in doubt. Both El Mundo and Corriere della Sera reported in September 2004 that Ahmed stated in a conversation wiretapped by Italian authorities that during his time in Madrid he was being financed by Sheikh Salman al-Awdah, a radical Saudi cleric who has been described as a "friend" of Osama bin Laden and been praised by the al Qaeda leader for his support in a number of al Qaeda propaganda videos.) THE SPANISH INTELLIGENCE CHIEF'S CLAIM that there was no al Qaeda link to the Madrid bombings might be better understood within the context of Spanish domestic politics. After all, if the goal of the attacks was to topple the Popular Party government in order to bring about a Spanish withdrawal from Iraq, it would seem that al Qaeda was successful both in achieving the desired results and reading the Spanish political scene--which the Zapatero government might, understandably, be loathe to admit. What is alarming is that U.S. counterterrorism officials have apparently also missed these tell-tale signs of al Qaeda involvement in connection with a major terrorist attack in a European capital. Although this might not be very surprising: According to a May 2004 article in U.S. News & World Report, when asked about Iraq al-Jihad "Analysts at the Central Intelligence Agency also found the article unremarkable, 'a document like any number of other documents,' says one intelligence official." Perhaps it was, but it was almost certainly a document whose online publication and dissemination had tragic consequences for the Spanish people. ANY NUMBER OF INVESTIGATIONS into U.S. intelligence failures prior to 9/11 have revealed key gaps in the understanding of al Qaeda. As the FFI report on Islamist terrorism in Europe makes clear, there are no strict organizational division between al Qaeda and its various allies and associate groups, thus making the overlap between them fluid and difficult for investigators to track. To rule out an al Qaeda link to the Madrid bombers at this stage would seem counterintuitive in light of the information currently available from any number of credible sources. For instance, Judge Juan del Olmo, who is heading up the official Spanish investigation into the attacks, has said that the Madrid bombings were "were carried out by a local cell linked to a international terrorist network . . . of Islamic fanatics which planted the bombs had links stretching through France, Belgium, Italy, Morocco and to Iraq." Is it that much to ask that the U.S. intelligence community be at least as informed as members of the Spanish judiciary? Dan Darling is a counterterrorism consultant for the Manhattan Institute Center for Policing Terrorism.

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3/11 bombers planned further attacks

2006-03-11

Almost two years to the day since al-Qaeda linked bombers killed 191 passengers and injured almost 1,000 in devastating train bombings the Spanish capital on 11 March, 2004, it has emerged that the bombers had planned to carry out further attacks in Spain, according to disclosures published on Friday in the Spanish daily, ABC. A particuarly disturbing relevation in the ABC report is that other terrorist attacks were planned on Spanish soil. Investigators reportedly found details of planned attacks by the Madrid cell on the computer of one of the bombing suspects, Jamal Ahmidan, known as 'the Chinaman'. Among the cell's possible future targets were an English school in Madrid, and the Avila and Toledo synagogues, ABC reported. Investigators found a kind of manual on how to organise a terrorist group that Ahmidan had downloaded onto his computer one week after the deadly attacks from an 'online al-Battar training camp' based in Saudi Arabia. The 'instructions' received by Ahmidan included how to form a terror command structure in a large city. The manual contains information on the composition of an al-Qaeda cell. This needs to be made up of five groups: the leadership, information and logistics staff, operatives who carry out attacks, and financial officers. Only the leadership of a cell can know the objective of an attacks, according to the manual. Just a few days after Ahmidan downloaded the manual, police found 12 kilogrammes of explosives near Toledo, on the tracks of the high-speed Madrid-Seville express train. Ahmidan and several other Madrid train bombing suspects blew themselves up in a flat in a Madrid suburb when police moved in to arrest them three weeks after the bombings. A police special operations officer was killed and 18 police officers were injured in the blast. The second anniversary of the Madrid train bombings will be marked in a low-key climate, with little pomp and ceremony - at the request of relations of the victims. More than 200 of the attacks still need medical assistance, and a further 264 need psychological help. On Friday night prime minister Jose Luis Zapatero and King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia will attend a memorial concert for victims of the Madrid attacks and the 7 July 2005 bombings of the British capital London's transport system that killed 54 and injured 700. No bombing suspect has yet stood trial. Judge Juan del Olmo is expected to present his first indictments in the complex investigation by 10 April: some 30 people out of 116 suspects, many of whom are Moroccan, are expected to be charged. Del Olmo and the National Court have been warned that unless the investigation is stepped up, some of the 25 defendants currently detained might have to be released from custody before any trial ends. Spain's 11th March Association of Terrorism Victims president, Pilar Manjon said on Thursday she was starting legal action against del Olmo. Manjon is angry that del Olmo has so far asked only 10 of the hundreds of victims of the deadly attacks to testify before him.

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3/11 plotters linked to France, Belgium, Italy, Morocco, and Iraq

2006-03-10

But they aren't al-Qaeda, according to the AP story. Riiight. At any rate, one might contrast this description of the plot to that which is now appearing in the English press ... The judge leading the investigation into the Madrid bombings has said the attacks were carried out by a local cell linked to a international terrorist network. Judge Juan del Olmo said the cell of Islamic fanatics which planted the bombs had links stretching through France, Belgium, Italy, Morocco and to Iraq. The judge's claims come in documents issued with a judicial order to detain nine suspects for up to two more years without trial. They show an extensive terrorist apparatus which conceived, planned and carried out the attacks which killed 191 people and left 1,500 injured. So far 116 people have been charged in connection with the Madrid attacks. Del Olmo said within a month indictments into about 30 people will be issued.

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Italy tape: 'Joy' over American's beheading

2005-12-12

Is this what Islam is all about? Need Gentle to clarify things. Italian police were listening as the man identified as an Egyptian radical shouted with joy while watching a video of the beheading of American Nicholas Berg by his al Qaeda captors. "Come nearer, watch closely, this is the politics you have to follow, the politics of the sword," he advised another man as Berg's screams rang out. "Go to hell, enemy of God, kill him, kill him, cut it well, cut off his head," he said. Authorities say the statements recorded from phone taps and microphones show that Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed, a 34-year-old Egyptian facing trial in Milan next month on terrorism charges, preached a radical form of Islam and the need to carry out holy war against Western elements. The trial is considered one of Europe's major terrorist prosecutions in recent years. Ahmed is not only accused of terrorist crimes in Italy and of having links to cells across Europe, but he also is considered one of the masterminds of the March 11, 2004, train bombings in Madrid that killed 191 people and wounded more than 1,600. Guido Guella, Ahmed's lawyer, said his client maintains his innocence and claims he "never had any role in any association with terrorist aims." He said the Egyptian also says he is not the person speaking on the tapes. But prosecutors say the statements, which appear in a report prepared by Italian anti-terrorism police, are proof of Ahmed's extremist beliefs. He has been indicted on terrorism charges for allegedly planning an attack in an undisclosed location. In the May 28, 2004, conversation about the Berg tape, Ahmed's co-defendant, 22-year-old Egyptian Yahia Ragheh -- described by authorities as a would-be suicide bomber -- questions Ahmed's assertions. "It's not a sin?" he asks. "Who said this?" Ahmed replied. "It's never a sin ... because the cause is never a sin ... Are you scared? Are you shocked?" "No no, I think it is a sin, I only think it's a sin," Ragheh said. "When you enter a movement it's never a sin because there's a cause, the Islamic cause, all in hell ... everyone finishes in hell, everyone. For those who wound Islam the end is this." The taped conversations also reveal Ahmed's alleged connection to the Madrid bombings, authorities say. "There is something, there is something I can't hide from you," he said, lowering his voice in a conversation overheard in a Milan apartment two months after the attacks. "The Madrid attack is my project and those who died as martyrs are my dearest friends." Spanish officials have described Ahmed as one of the March 11 ringleaders. Italian Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu said after his arrest that Ahmed was "probably among the principal authors" of the Madrid bombings, and that he was "preparing other attacks." Officials have not said where Ahmed, who was trained in the use of explosives in the Egyptian army, was planning the attacks. Italy handed Ahmed over to Spain last December for interrogation in the Madrid bombings, and Spanish authorities sent him back to Italy in April. Spanish Judge Juan del Olmo has filed provisional charges against him of mass murder and terrorism. It is not known when indictments may be handed down in Spain. In the arrest warrant, del Olmo said that while living in Madrid the Egyptian "managed to take control of a small group of Arab followers, all of them with extremist Islamic ideology, supporters of jihad and Osama bin Laden." The Italian police report alleges that Ahmed used tapes, cell phones and computers as recruitment tools in his travels across Europe. He is also accused of giving lessons on falsifying documents, computers and the need for caution in using communications. Italian prosecutors cite the case as an example of cooperation among European law enforcement agencies, often seen as unable to coordinate their investigations because of differing laws and traditions. "Real cooperation is the only instrument to successfully battle international terrorism," said prosecutor Maurizio Romanelli. They say that investigations in Italy, Spain, Germany, France and Belgium have turned up evidence that a dangerous group of Islamic militants have moved into Western Europe to recruit insurgents to fight in Iraq.

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Almallah helped Amer Azizi escape

2005-03-22

A suspect in the Madrid train bombings may have helped one of Spain's most wanted fugitives flee the country, a judge said on Tuesday. High Court Judge Juan del Olmo, leading the probe into the attacks a year ago that killed 191 people, said the suspect, Syrian-born Mouhannad Almallah Dabas, recruited Islamist holy warriors and was an expert at forging identity papers. "Documentation from the accused ... could have been used to help the Moroccan Amer El Azizi, a presumed important member of al Qaeda, escape from Spain," the judge wrote in a six-page order that remanded Almallah in custody. Another judge in 2003 charged Azizi with belonging to al Qaeda, and his name has come up in the investigation into the Madrid bombings, in which 10 bombs exploded aboard four commuter trains three days before a general election. More than 40 people, mostly of North African origin, are in jail or under court supervision in the case. Investigators say Azizi attended al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan before the U.S. invasion, and he was one of 35 people charged together with belonging to al Qaeda, among them Osama bin Laden. Almallah was arrested in Madrid on Friday for the second time in the train bombings investigation, one day before his brother was arrested in London in the same probe. Almallah's defence lawyer said the accused may have chosen to associate with the wrong people but did not know of any criminal activity and that if he were guilty he would have tried to evade police, the court order said. Almallah was arrested two weeks after the Madrid attacks but let go for lack of evidence. Police later considered him to have established suspicious contacts in North Africa and the Middle East, the court order said. Almallah also created a political stir in Spain because after he got out of jail last year he joined the ruling Socialist party, which won a general election held three days after the bombings of March 11, 2004.

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Italy Hands Train Bombing Suspect to Spain

2004-12-08

An Egyptian who was arrested after allegedly boasting about his role in the Madrid train bombings was extradited from Italy to Spain on Tuesday. "Hrarrr! Blew the infidels to smithereens! An' then... An' then... Oh. Hello, officer." Rabei Osman Ahmed, alleged to be a key figure in the March 11 bombings that killed 191 people, was arrested in Milan in June, and the Italian Supreme Court agreed last week to deliver him to Spain for six months for questioning. Spanish authorities say they must then return Osman Ahmed to Italy, where he is still under investigation for links to Muslim militant groups in Europe. Spanish Judge Juan del Olmo, who is leading the investigation into the attacks, said Osman Ahmed, while living in Madrid, "managed to take control of a small group of Arab followers, all of them with extremist Islamic ideology, supporters of jihad and Osama bin Laden." Spanish authorities say the Egyptian, considered an expert in explosives, was a key figure in the planning of the bombings and in the structure of al-Qaida in Europe. Spanish investigators are especially eager to interrogate him because the other suspected ringleaders are dead — they were among seven suspects who blew themselves up on April 3.

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Spaniard Released in Madrid Bombings Probe

2004-06-29

A judge released a Spaniard Monday accused of helping transport the dynamite used in the March commuter train bombings, court officials said. Antonio Ivan Reiss, 21, was charged with collaborating with an armed group. He was arrested Thursday in Spain's Canary Islands. At Monday's hearing, Reiss acknowledged carrying a bag in a bus to Madrid to deliver it to suspects who attacked the train. But Reiss told Judge Juan del Olmo that he thought the bag contained hashish, not the dynamite authorities believe was in the satchel, officials said. The judge did not give an explanation for his order, but throughout the investigation he has released suspects from jail, saying that their apparant role in the attacks was not serious enough to keep them in custody. Reiss was the latest suspect detained in connection with the bombings of four commuter trains during morning rush hour, an attach that killed 190 passengers and bystanders and wounded more than 2,000.

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