[antimedia] antimedia: Apparently, a Spanish connection to 9/11....

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Apparently, a Spanish connection to 9/11....
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   ....has been [1]established by the indefatigable efforts of one
   Spanish magistrate.

     Enter Judge Baltazar Garzon, Spain's terrorism magistrate, who has
     been for many years investigating the links between al Qaeda and a
     Spanish Islamic cell headed by one Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas (who
     Mr. Garzon arrested in November 2001 and is currently in prison on
     a conspiracy conviction). The Spanish security service secretly had
     this cell under scrutiny since the mid-1990s; Mr. Garzon was thus
     able to draw on wiretaps, surveillance reports and other
     intelligence, as well as his own interrogations of suspects and
     captured documents from Afghanistan.
     Mr. Garzon has produced a 697-page investigative report for
     Madrid's central court in September 2003, which charges that the
     Spanish cell--through its connections to Mohamed Atta's Hamburg
     cell and some of the pilots it recruited--helped plan, finance and
     support the 9/11 attacks.
     In an interview, Mr. Garzon explained to me through an interpreter
     that the support of the Spanish cell began in the early days of the
     plot and continued up until the attack. He described evidence that
     ranged from video tapes that Spanish police had confiscated from
     the home of one of the Spanish conspirators, which methodically
     surveyed the twin towers of the World Trade Center from five
     different angles in the late 1990s, to a phone call intercepted by
     Spanish intelligence in August 2001 (at a time when the hijackers
     were buying tickets on the planes they planned to commandeer), in
     which an operative in London informed Yarkas that associates in
     "classes" had now "entered the aviation field," and were beheading
     "the bird." After drawing a diagram for me on a blackboard of how
     the Spanish cell connected to Atta's and Binalshibh's recruiters in
     Germany, he said it was "supporting the operation at every level."

   Obviously this calls into question everything the 9/11 Commission
   concluded about the attacks as well as re-opening many questions the
   commission claimed were settled. The Hamburg cell is in the thick of
   this, and the visits by an Iraqi intelligence officer to Germany
   should be investigated further as well.
   In short, 9/11 may have been a much larger conspiracy that was
   thought, and many more players may have been involved than has been
   claimed.

References

   1. http://opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009698