Zitat:Botschafter sollten Eta verantwortlich machen
Lässt Regierungschef Aznar wegen der Wahl am Sonntag einseitig ermitteln? Laut "El Pais" will das Kabinett unbedingt die Eta für die Anschläge vom 11. März verantwortlich machen. Spaniens Botschafter seien angewiesen worden, die Eta-These zu verbreiten. Dabei sprechen immer mehr Details für eine islamistische Spur.

Zitat:Da versucht wohl mal wieder jemand, einen Terroranschlag für innenpolitische Ziele und Wahlen auszuschlachten......

Zitat:12.03.2004 17:52 Uhr
Nach den Terroranschlägen

Täterfrage entscheidend für Wahlausgang

Bei einer Urheberschaft al-Qaidas könnten die Spanier die amerikafreundliche Irak-Politik der Regierung bestrafen .....
...Sollte hingegen al-Qaida hinter den Attentaten stehen, werden die Wähler Analysten zufolge die Regierung für ihre pro-amerikanische Irak-Politik abstrafen. Davon könnten die oppositionellen Sozialisten profitieren.
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Zitat:Ungewöhnlich sicher äußerte sich am Samstag der spanische Geheimdienst zu den Ermittlungsergebnissen. Laut ihrer Einschätzung seien zu "99 Prozent" islamistische Terroristen am Werk gewesen, zitierte der Radiosender Cadena Ser einen Geheimdienstvertreter. Vermutlich habe eine Gruppe von zehn bis 15 Radikalen die Tat verübt, die das Land bereits wieder verlassen habe.........

Zitat:Eilmeldung

MADRID-ANSCHLAG

Polizei nimmt fünf Verdächtige fest

Im Zusammenhang mit den Anschlägen von Madrid sind in Spanien mehrere Personen festgenommen worden. Es handelt sich um drei Marokkaner und zwei Inder.
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Zitat:Terror-Hinweise aus Norwegen

Spekulationen über eine Verwicklung islamischer Terrorgruppen erhielten auch Auftrieb durch einen Bericht der norwegischen Tageszeitung "VG". Das Blatt berichtete am Samstag von einer arabischen Web-Site, auf der Spanien wegen der Parlamentswahl am Sonntag schon vor einem Jahr als geeignetes Ziel für Anschläge genannt worden war. "VG" zitierte aus einem Dokument, das norwegische Terrorexperten im Internet entdeckt hatten: `Wir müssen den größten Nutzen aus der Nähe des Wahltermins in Spanien im kommenden März ziehen", heißt es in dem Text. "Spanien hält maximal zwei oder drei Anschläge aus, bevor es sich aus Irak zurückzieht."

Zitat:Zufall oder Planung?
Bomben in Madrid wurden genau 911 Tage nach den Terroranschlägen von New York gezündet

Zitat:V I D E O B A N D

"Es wird noch mehr Blut fließen"

Nach dem Terror-Albtraum mit 200 Toten in Madrid ist ein Bekenner-Video aufgetaucht - darin übernimmt ein arabisch sprechender Mann im Namen von El Kaida die Verantwortung für die Bombenanschläge auf die Pendlerzüge und kündigt weitere Attentate an. Zuvor waren mehrere Marokkaner festgenommen worden. ....

Zitat:10 Mar 2004 21:55 GMT DJ Dutch Agency Says Young Muslims Recruited For `Jihad'

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AMSTERDAM (AP)--Young Dutch Muslims are being recruited for armed terrorism missions against Western targets, the Dutch secret service said Wednesday.

In a note to parliament, the agency known by its Dutch acronym AIVD repeated its November 2002 warning that recruits are active in the Netherlands.
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Zitat:Madrassas breeding grounds of terrorists: Powell
Press Trust of India
Washington, March 11

Pulling no punches, US Secretary of State Colin Powell has denounced madrassas or schools imparting religious education in Pakistan and several other countries as breeding grounds for "fundamentalists and terrorists."

He said the US had held several discussions on the issue with the countries concerned and was in the process of introducing education programmes which would shift the focus of these madrassas to providing useful education.
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Zitat:America, land of the Ashcroft-haters
Michelle Malkin
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On the day he was admitted to the hospital last week, for example, Ashcroft was scheduled to speak at a Justice Department news conference. He was set to announce the convictions of three jihadists who trained in Virginia on behalf of the Taliban and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET), a Pakistani terrorist group. The defendants spun their usual "woe-is-me/Islam is a Religion of Peace/I'm an innocent victim of racial profiling" tales for their tearful relatives and a sympathetic media. But the Justice Department didn't buy their stories. And neither did U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema, a Clinton appointee, who blasted the terror cell members' cover stories for traveling abroad to wage holy war as "incredible" and "simply implausible."
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Every single time Ashcroft has brought charges against jihadists in America, he has been mocked and vilified. Every single time he has tightened the screws on Islamic terror recruitment and financing, he has been lambasted as a racist. Every single time they have been arrested, the defendants have proclaimed their absolute innocence. And each time Ashcroft has won convictions against them -- neutralizing terror cells in Lackawanna, N.Y., Portland, Detroit, and now northern Virginia -- he has been met with more condemnation and derision.

John Ashcroft has nobly taken on the grueling job of protecting a nation of ingrates who take joy in his illness while terrorists continue to plot to kill us all.
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Zitat:Jailed Muslim cleric vows to teach jihad upon release


Friday, March 12, 2004 at 03:58 JST
JAKARTA — Indonesia's jailed Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, who is linked to the Jemaah Islamiyah militant Islamic group, on Thursday vowed to resume teaching jihad, or holy war, against the enemies of Islam after his release from prison next month.
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Zitat:AL QAEDA FEAR RUNS THROUGH EUROPE

JERUSALEM - Even if it turns out that Basque separatists are responsible for the blood on the tracks in Madrid, European security officials are very concerned about the possibility - one might say inevitability - of a devastating al Qaeda strike in the heart of Europe.

Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz was in Paris on Monday, where he met with the French secretary of defense.

"France is really worried about Muslim terrorist threats directed against European targets," Mofaz told The Post before the Madrid bombings.

French concern was strong enough that they struck an agreement with Mofaz to tighten the intelligence cooperation and coordination between Israel and France to track al Qaeda cells.
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Zitat:Alleged Bin Laden Message Calls for Jihad Council
Sat Mar 13, 2004 02:23 PM ET
DUBAI (Reuters) - Hitherto unreported parts of a message said to come from Osama bin Laden urge Islamic clerics and leaders to form a council to rally and arm Muslims for holy war against the West, an Islamic Web site reported on Saturday.
Al Jazeera television had in January aired parts of an audio tape that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency said was "likely" from bin Laden, leader of al Qaeda network. The Dirasat Web site carried the full text.
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Zitat:Don't shed a tear for this holy warrior - Piers Akerman

March 14, 2004
ON Thursday, SBS will screen a documentary designed to promote a sympathetic view of the enthusiastic South Australian-born Islamist David Hicks, now awaiting trial before a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
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He went to Japan and trained horses before his interest in weapons diverted him to Kosovo, where it would appear he first came in contact with militant Islamists.
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Desperate to join an army, he signed up for training with one of Pakistan's infamous madrassas – recruiting grounds for the Taliban and their al-Qaeda allies.
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He also loved the fanatical Islamist notion that the religion would sweep the world, subduing all those who resisted.

"Pakistan, Kashmir and Afghanistan (will) join together in a true Islamic state. The Islamic state is nearly completed. Love, David," he wrote.

Hicks couldn't wait to fight the infidel, even considering the possibility of martyrdom through death. "As a Muslim, I believe in destiny. I will always fight for the truth, Islam," he wrote.
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