Madrid bombings: ETA or... Al Qaeda?

[ing]

as you guys are saying this could be any of them ETA or Al-Qaeda , and is true ETA usually just calls to tell us he has put a bomb somewhere, but those bombs were there kill lots of ppl
and even there were bombs to explode after the police and sanitarians came thank they did not explode
live close to madrid and usaully go there every day at that time, and is damn ****ing what they did, i don't care who did it thats should not have happen they were inocents those bastards just dont cabut am not gonna approve more laws to just cut civil rights to just feel more secure because at the end if they want to do harm they'll find a way to do it

this to could be away to make the PP win the elections am not saying that they did god help us, but it helps them.

i'll miss you my friends.

[MURACU]

Here is a link from the bbc News site. It seems that the Al-Qaeda link is the strongest so far.

BBC news link Spain

It will be important to see how this effects European politics in the near futur. As Ing said I would be against the rushing through of any new anti terror laws.

An interesting item is there has been a group in France demanding ,for the passed couple of weeks,a ransom or it will start planting bombs on the mainline railways. Since the bomb attack in Spain they have upped the ransom demand.

french rail threats 8 march

[bballad]

BE read for the first batteles in this new jehad in europ, you have holland passing restrictive religious laws out of nesecity, france and germany reliseing that in a few decades the muslim imagrents will be in the majority and are refuseing to assimilate int othe culture..insted they are insisting on trying to replace the goverments, spain is all ready on the short road to talabanesk governence.......its going to get a lot worse, I think the next hit will come from the europeans start looking for mass deportations and removal of religious tolerance laws.

[Negative]

Interesting fact: September 11, 2001 to March 11, 2004 is 911 days... take or give a day

[bballad]

OK some one familier with the fundimentalist muslim, what is the significance of the 11 of any give month...that is when the major attacks seem to be happening.

[RoadClosed]

911 is the number we call for help.

[bballad]

No there is mopre...911 means nothing to europeans, besides attackes are not happening on sept 11 but the 11 of any month.......


Or perhaps I am making a basic human logical error and forceing a pattern on coincidence?

[RoadClosed]

I was thinking in terms of the Original Attack, but my feeling is there is absolutely no significance to the attack, just a time picked when all was ready. In fact I don't think they counted on the president to be outside of washington, since it apears there is loose evidence that supports a white house attack. But since the original date was set, it could now hold significance to other factions. I was thinking that 911 is the number you call when something happens so perhaps that saw some humor in the fact that once the attackes began 911 was called all over the country because people from the hijacked planes called it, ground controllers called it etc.

//edit: Since interested I'll add something. If one where to make and assumption that the date could be related in some significance to Islam, it would be important to understand that the Islam calendar is very different. For instance I could relate the Islamic tradition of Ramadan to be the NINTH month in the Islamic Calendar. One could find that very interesting. For instance to a fundamentalist; today could be the year 1425 in terms relative to their separate history. 1425 A.H., to be exact and the month equiv. could be Muharram - Safa with the day being the 25th day of that cycle. So I would be inclined to not limit my analysis to Gregorian based time date calculation.

[darkes]

I doubt that the date was significant, except in the sense that it was done just before the Spanish elections, and as a result affected the outcome, which in itself is highly alarming.
Given that most people in Spain were opposed to the Iraq war, I don't think this was a coincidence.

Most terrorist groups try to be unpredictable to make it more difficult for governments to know when they are going to strike next, which is why you wouldn't choose exactly 911 days after 9/11.

The latest news over here suggests that it is probably a new Islamic group that carried out this atrocity. Firstly because there was apparently none of the usual 'chatter' that is picked up by the intelligence services, and secondly because it was not a suicide bombing.

This is potentially very bad news, because at least a suicide bomber can only do that once, whereas the perpetrators of this are probably still at large.

[bballad]

I am thinking that i was seeing paterns that where not there..any one feel like doing some patern analysis on the known alquida attacks with time and location?

RoadClosed you are correct I was being western centric in my analysis of the attacks...hopefuly the people running around trying to stop al-quida wont make the same mistake.