In view of the news from Spain today, and the comment from Rubin, wonder if Europeans will wake up at all, or if it's just easier to bury their head in the sand.... Rubin: The Spanish model shows appeasement in the ascendancy, arising from a prevalent European view that if it leaves terrorists alone they will leave it alone. In Britain and Italy, however, support for government policies seem to be increasing as people conclude that the terrorists really are out to get them.
News today:
Spanish judge links Madrid bombings suspect with 9/11 suspect
Time is GMT + 8 hours
Posted: 29 April 2004 0731 hrs
MADRID : A Spanish anti-terrorist judge charged a fugitive linked to Al-Qaeda with involvement in the September 11 attacks, and tied him to a Moroccan sought in connection with the deadly Madrid railway bombings.
Amer Aziz was one of 40 people -- including in his absence Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden himself -- charged by Judge Baltazar Garzon as part of investigations into the Al-Qaeda network in Spain.
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But Garzon Wednesday added new charges to those he had made in September last year, accusing Amer Aziz of involvement in the September 11, 2001 airline suicide attacks in New York and Washington.
Garzon also noted the arrest on October 10, 2000 in Istanbul of Amer Aziz and three other people, including Said Berraj, with whom he shared an apartment.
Said Berraj, a Moroccan, is the subject of an international arrest warrant as part of investigations into the March 11 bombings of commuter trains, in which 191 people were killed.
Officials believe the multiple bombings were the work of Moroccan Islamic extremists.
Spanish press reports have said that either Aziz or Berraj could have been among those killed when seven suspects in the March 11 bombings blew themselves up in a collective suicide on April 3 following a police raid on an apartment in Leganes near Madrid.
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