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	11 March 2004 Madrid attacks - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Shortly afterwards, police identified an apartment in Leganés, south of Madrid, as being the base of operations for the individuals suspected of being the material authors of the Madrid and AVE attacks.
		The commuter rail line that was bombed begins its journey at Alcalá de Henares, which is home to large Latin American and Eastern European immigrant communities, and serves industrial middle class towns, suburbs, and neighbourhoods to the southeast of Madrid.
		Although ETA has a history of mounting bomb attacks in Madrid, planting delayed-action bombs to kill rescue workers and using booby traps (such as explosives in wallets), as well as also having attempted to attack trains, the 11 March attacks were on a scale far exceeding anything previously attempted by a European terrorist organisation.
	open-encyclopedia.com /March_11,_2004_Madrid_attacks (3990 words)

	11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings (also known as 11/3, 3/11, M-11 and 11-M) were a series of coordinated terrorist bombings against the commuter train system of Madrid, Spain on the morning of 11 March 2004, which killed 191 people and wounded 1,460.
		Investigators subsequently found that the explosives used in the Leganés explosion were of the same type as those used in the 11 March attacks and the thwarted bombing of the AVE line.
		International rail traffic to and from Madrid was also interrupted due to security concerns, although trains to and from France departed from Chamartín, Madrid's second largest train station.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/March_11,_2004_Madrid_attacks (4178 words)

	Encyclopedia: 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		By 23 March, 191 people were confirmed dead (177 at the scene, 13 while under medical care), of whom 12 were yet to be identified; and 1,460 were wounded (about 100 remained hospitalised.) Initial reports of 202 deaths were later revised down due to the misidentification of body parts.
		Initially it was feared that families of illegal immigrants would be afraid to contact the authorities for fear of being deported for immigration violations, but Spanish Prime Minister JosÃ© MarÃa Aznar announced an immigration amnesty for victims of the attack.
		The Bali Bombing occurred on October 12, 2002 in the town of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali, killing 202 people and injuring a further 209.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/11-March-2004-Madrid-train-bombings (8257 words)

	CNN.com - Family charged in Madrid bombings - Feb 5, 2005
		MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- A Spanish investigating magistrate has charged a Moroccan family of four with collaborating with a terrorist group in connection with the Madrid train bombings last March that killed 191 people, a National Court spokeswoman told CNN on Saturday.
		Belhadj was in Spain a month before the train bombings and stayed with his sister and her family at their home in the southern Madrid suburb of Leganes.
		Three weeks after the bombings, seven suspected terrorists with key roles in the bombings blew themselves up on April 3 as police closed in on their hideout apartment in Leganes, the same southern suburb where the family of four lives.
	edition.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/europe/02/05/spain.charges (676 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Rumors of War (Madrid)
		More symbolism which clearly shows the Madrid bombings were staged by the New World Order.
		To some people, the connection between the Madrid train station explosions and al-Qaeda was obvious, even when the bombings were still being blamed on ETA — one had merely to note that the
		In any case, there is no evidence that whoever was responsible for the Madrid bombings deliberately planned them to take place on a numerically significant date.
	www.snopes.com /rumors/madrid.asp (525 words)

	USATODAY.com - Millions protest Madrid bombings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		MADRID, Spain (AP) — Millions of Spaniards poured into the streets Friday, chanting "Cowards!" and "Assassins!" in a protest of the bombings that killed 199 people.
		Many of the estimated 2.3 million marchers in Madrid huddled against a steady rain in a bobbing mass of umbrellas that clogged the capital's squares and the area around the Atocha station, where two of the four trains blew up during Thursday morning's rush hour.
		However, if Thursday's bombings are seen by voters as the work of al-Qaeda, that could draw their attention to Aznar's vastly unpopular decision to endorse the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and deploy Spanish troops there.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-03-12-spain-bombings_x.htm (1211 words)

	ipedia.com: 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The number victims in this outrage far surpassed Spain's previous worst bombing incident at a Hipercor chain supermarket in Barcelona in 1987, which killed 21 and wounded 40; on that occasion, responsibility was claimed by the Basque armed terrorist group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna ("Basque Fatherland and Liberty") or ETA.
		Four bombs (planted at the front, middle and rear of a single train) exploded at 7:39 at Atocha station, and three bombs planted on a single train went off simultaneously just outside of Calle Téllez station.
		Initial reports referred to these bombs as booby traps set to explode when the rescue workers arrived, typical of ETA's modus operandi, and were said to have been found in vehicles parked outside Atocha station.
	www.ipedia.com /11_march_2004_madrid_attacks.html (3968 words)

	Madrid Attacks May Have Targeted Election (washingtonpost.com)
		MADRID -- Seven months after bombs exploded aboard morning commuter trains in Madrid, killing 191 people, the precise motives of the attackers remain unclear.
		Some U.S. and Spanish officials have pointed to the Madrid bombings in arguing that an attack may be planned in the United States in an effort to sway American voters on Nov. 2.
		Immediately after the Madrid attacks, a claim of responsibility by an al Qaeda-linked group was e-mailed to the London-based Al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A38817-2004Oct16.html (778 words)

	Oregon lawyer arrested as witness in Madrid bombings \| ajc.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		MADRID, Spain — The fingerprints of an American lawyer arrested in the Madrid terror bombing probe were found on a plastic shopping bag containing detonators like those used in the train attacks, the Spanish government said Friday.
		The bag was found inside a stolen white van left near a train station that three of the four bombed trains departed from, an Interior Ministry official said.
		Police say cell phones used to activate the detonators in the backpack bombs used in the train attacks were traced to the cell phone store Zougam ran in Madrid.
	www.ajc.com /news/content/news/0504/07lawyer.html (870 words)

	Al Qaeda, ETA suspected in Madrid attacks that kill 192 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		MADRID - Spanish officials stunned by co-ordinated bomb blasts in Madrid on Thursday that killed 192 people and wounded more than 1 400 said they were keeping their lines of investigation open after clues emerged possibly implicating Islamic or Basque militants.
		The attack "was a part of the settling of old scores with crusader Spain, America's ally in its war against Islam", said the statement, a copy of which was sent to AFP by the newspaper.
		The head of the European police organisation Europol, Juergen Storbeck, also cast doubt on ETA's involvement, telling reporters in Rome that the bombings were not preceded by a warning, as in previous ETA attacks.
	www.namibian.com.na /2004/march/national/042DE39292.html (927 words)

	After Madrid: war, prevention, dialogue? - openDemocracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Even if it is exonerated of responsibility for the pre-election Madrid massacre, the militant Basque group that has waged a thirty-six year struggle against the Spanish state faces a difficult future.
		The Madrid bombings have taught us a powerful lesson: the ‘war on terror’ plays into the hands of its enemies.
		The attack in Madrid should not be looked at as only European, or even only political, but in the context of a human chain of being and responsibility.
	www.opendemocracy.net /debates/debate-2-103.jsp (773 words)

	Spain's Retreat After The Madrid Bombings Rewards Terrorism
		Whether this is the case or not, however, it is clear that the bombings contributed greatly to the Socialist Party’s surprise victory at the polls three days later and the election of a new Prime Minister, Socialist Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.
		The bombings, initially suspected to be the gruesome handiwork of the ETA Basque terrorist group, now appear to be an attack launched at least in part by foreign Islamic militants, possibly linked to Al Qaeda.
		As a result of the bombings, Aznar’s government, which initially sought to lay the blame on Basque separatists who have conducted a terrorist campaign against the Spanish government for more than 20 years, was swept out of office by a voter backlash.
	www.heritage.org /Research/Europe/wm448.cfm (863 words)

	DAWN - Editorial; 13 March, 2004
		It is not yet clear as to who is behind Thursday's deadly bombings on commuter trains in Madrid, which left 200 people dead and over 1,400 injured.
		Ominously, European media have likened the March 11 attacks to the September 11 tragedy as far as its magnitude is concerned, and Spain has announced a three-day mourning for the victims ahead of the elections scheduled for Sunday.
		Regardless of who might have carried out the bombings, the tragedy seems to have united all Spaniards - a nation not known for political or social coherence - in their sense of shock and anger.
	www.dawn.com /2004/03/13/ed.htm (1307 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| New arrests over Madrid bombings
		The arrests came as the number of deaths rose to 202 - equalling that of the Bali attacks - with the death in hospital of a young Peruvian woman.
		Of the new detainees, three were seized in the Madrid suburb from where three of the four bombed trains started.
		Shortly after the attacks on 11 March, a van was found parked next to the railway station in the suburb, Alcala de Henares, with detonators and a tape of Koranic verses inside.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/europe/3522184.stm (533 words)

	Madrid Spain Hotel and Travel - Madrid Spain Hotel and Travel Information
		Madrid City Tourist Information – Walking through Madrid, with the sun on your back, is perhaps one of the foremost reasons people like to visit Spain.
		Madrid is Spain’s capital city and is situated in the heart of the peninsula and right in the centre of the Castillian plain (646 meters above sea level).
		Madrid is no longer the cheap budget holiday of the past; it is now a cultured and sought after holiday destination, which attracts the affluent and stylish.
	www.madridcitytourist.com (380 words)

	WJLA - 4 Arrested in Madrid Train Bombings Case (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Belhadj might be the al-Qaida spokesman named in a video claiming responsibility for the March 11 bombings of Madrid commuter trains which killed 191 and wounded more than 1,500, the ministry said.
		The video, found near a Madrid mosque two days after the attack, showed an Arabic-speaking man who said the bombings were al-Qaida's revenge for Spain's decision to send troops to Iraq and Afghanistan.
		Al-Haski is suspected of helping prepare the Madrid bombings and of being a prominent member of the group blamed for the Casablanca bombings, according to Juan del Olmo, the judge leading the March 11 probe.
	www.wjla.com /headlines/0205/204279.html (517 words)

	CNN.com - Police search for Madrid bombers - Mar 12, 2004
		MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- Spanish government officials have pinned the blame on the Basque separatist group ETA for Thursday's blasts in Madrid that killed at least 192 people, but investigators were also exploring a lead with Arabic and Islamic links.
		A U.S. official cautioned it was "still too early to say" whether the bombings were the work of ETA or other terror groups, including al Qaeda.
		Acebes said suspicion focused on ETA because the modus operandi was similar in December and February incidents, and the type of explosives matched those typically used by ETA.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/03/11/spain.blasts (1166 words)

	CBC News:Alleged al-Qaeda letter claims responsibility for Madrid bombings
		MADRID - A London-based Arabic newspaper says an al-Qaeda-linked group has claimed responsibility for the series of deadly bombs that ripped across a train line in Madrid, but Spanish officials maintain Basque separatists are still the chief suspects.
		The claim comes as police investigating the bombings say they found a van with detonators and an Arabic-language tape with Qur'anic verses in a nearby town.
		More than 1,200 were injured in the bombings during the Thursday morning rush hour.
	www.cbc.ca /stories/2004/03/11/world/madrid040311 (601 words)

	TIMEeurope Magazine \| Madrid 3/11/04
		When he came across an unremarkable sports bag, he assumed it belonged to one of the victims and put it aside; at some point amid the grim triage the bag was taken to a local police station, where it was added to a mountain of unclaimed personal possessions — purses, briefcases, shoes, coats, laptop computers.
		The Casablanca operation loosely resembled the Madrid massacre: there were well-orchestrated blasts in five locations, and in each instance the explosives were carried in bags or rucksacks.
		The local Madrid television station TeleMadrid received a call from a man with an Arab accent saying a tape had been placed in a wastebasket near the city's main mosque and the municipal morgue.
	www.time.com /time/europe/html/040322/story.html?cnn=yes (898 words)

	CNN.com - Fresh arrests in Spain bomb case - Mar 18, 2004
		MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- Spanish authorities have arrested five more people in connection with last week's bombings of Madrid commuter trains, and five men previously in custody appeared in court as the death toll from those attacks rose to 202.
		The court spokeswoman said four of the five arrested Thursday are of Arab descent, while the fifth is a Spanish citizen arrested in the northern city of Oviedo.
		He has denied involvement in last week's bombings and was due to face another judge, Balthasar Garzon, in court Thursday in a hearing he requested.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/03/18/spain.invest/index.html (888 words)

	"Series of "Real-Time" Reports Concerning Multiple Train Bombings in Madrid, Spain," 11 March 2004,
		Last Thursday's terrorist bombings in Madrid continue to cause political fallout both within Spain and beyond, as much of Europe takes a new look at its vulnerability to a terrorist attack.
		In a videotaped message, a man purporting to represent al-Qaida claims the terrorist network was behind bombings that killed 200 and wounded 1,500 in Madrid, the Spanish interior minister said Saturday.
		MADRID, SPAIN: The latest update coming from Spain indicates that at least 131 people were killed and more than 400 were wounded in multiple blasts in/near train stations in Madrid, Pedro Calvo, the Madrid regional government’s security affairs director said.
	www.emergency.com /2004/Madrid_bmb031104.htm (2439 words)

	Madrid News
		Pakistani security and intelligence agencies reportedly have the alleged mastermind of the March 2004 Madrid bombings in their custody, a senior intelligence official told Gulf News.
		Madrid - Spain's agriculture minister on Wednesday dismissed fears of bird flu sparking a global pandemic among humans as "science fiction", saying the virus currently only poses a thr...
		Madrid: African immigrants attempting to reach Spain are being deported by Morocco to the Sahara Desert without food or drink, Spanish Press reports said yesterday.
	www.madridnews.com (284 words)

	CNN.com - Six warrants for Madrid bombings - Apr 26, 2004
		MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- The Spanish Interior Ministry has distributed the photographs of five men wanted in new international arrest warrants in connection with the Madrid train bombings.
		The warrant said Berraj is also linked to the alleged "coordinator" of the Madrid train attacks, a Tunisian man, Sarhane Ben Abdelmajid Fakhet, whom authorities have identified as one of the seven suspected terrorists who died in the Leganes apartment explosion.
		Earlier Monday, a Spanish judge questioned but released without charges a Moroccan man who was arrested last week in the Madrid bombing investigation, and was due to release the man's brother, who will have conditional freedom but will remain charged in the case, a National Court spokeswoman told CNN.
	edition.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/04/26/spain.wanted (553 words)

	Madrid bomb death toll lowered to 190 - World News - MSNBC.com
		MADRID, Spain - Authorities lowered the death toll from the Madrid bombings to 190 from 202 on Tuesday, and news reports said Spanish police warned European intelligence services that some suspects in the attacks may have fled.
		The death toll of 190 put the Madrid attack behind that of the October 2002 nightclub bombings in Bali, Indonesia, which killed 202.
		The head of Madrid’s Forensic Institute, Carmen Baladia, also said there was no scientific evidence to confirm that any of the dead was a suicide bomber.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4502950 (996 words)

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