S11 may have been planned in Spain by Syrians

[Hakki Alacakaptan]

This is something I can believe. If you go to the story's graphics page
http://www.time.com/time/europe/eu/magazine/0,9868,185750,00.html you can
see the mug shots. These guys look like they have the smarts to pull off
S11, unlike the cavemen in Afghanistan. It looks to me like the ringleader
Yarkas is Mohammed Atta's controller, whom Atta twice went to Spain to
visit.

I think Garzon has netted something even bigger than Pinochet this time.

Hakki

http://www.time.com/time/europe/eu/printout/0,9869,185750,00.html
Saturday, December 1, 2001
Bust In Madrid
A well-established al-Qaeda cell may have been directly involved in planning
the U.S. terrorist attacks
BY JAMES GRAFF/MADRID
The cells of alleged al-Qaeda schemers busted in Europe over the last year
have been accused of planning attacks — in Paris, Brussels, Rome and
Strasbourg — that luckily never happened. None has been linked to the one
that tragically did: the suicide bombing plot of Sept. 11, centered around
Mohamed Atta’s apparently autonomous cell in Hamburg. That changed last week
when Spanish investigative judge, Baltasar Garzón, released a preliminary
indictment against eight men alleged to have constituted a long-standing
al-Qaeda cell in Spain.

Not only did the cell actively recruit members to al-Qaeda, arrange their
transport to Afghanistan training camps and provide illicit funding to the
terrorist outfit, Garzón claims. But unlike its counterparts in Paris,
Brussels, Frankfurt, Milan and Sarajevo, the Madrid cell also "may have been
directly involved in the preparation and implementation" of the U.S.
attacks.
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