2009-09-14

A journualist to be judged after publishing about 3/11 Madrid bombings

One day before the Explosive Deactivation Unit Chief by 3/11 Madrid bombings, Mr Juan J. Sánchez Manzano will declare about his actions regarding the analysis of evidences from the commuter trains attacked, a journalist from El Mundo newspaper, Mr Antonio Rubio, has been known will be judged after publishing about a Police informer who would have alerted an special Police Unit on Islamic Terrorists.

The informer was a double agent working at the same time for both Spanish and Moroccan Intelligence Services and acted as an Imam in a Mosque in a town nearby Madrid.

3/11 prosecutor, Judge Mr Juan del Olmo, didn't know about this informer, Spanish Police didn't tell him about this double agent and after Mr Rubio's articles at El Mundo, decided to ask the Police for this informer data and reports.

The charge against Mr Rubio is on disclosing secrets, but that's nonsense, since it was the very informer who moved himself to contact the journalist and gave him all the information which was then published.

Mr Rubio checked the information from the double agent and Imam before publishing it, and by the time the articles shocked the Spaniards from the newspaper front page, the informer had been given a new identity and hold a protected witness status.

Later on this informer asked to declare without identity protection during the trial on 3/11 by 2007 and his declaration was astonishing for he accused the Police unit he reported to for trying to send him to death by asking him to go to the flat where a blast allegedly killed seven terrorist from the cell supposed to have committed the attacks.

El Mundo newspaper believes this action against one of its journalists to be a retaliation after its role played all these previous years being critic with the official investigation on the massacre.

Definitely, 3/11 Madrid Bombings is not a closed case in Spain, an obscure affair lies down with it and five years later, neither the Police, nor the Attorneys or the Government and two sentences have been able to convince the Spaniards it was really what we were told the very first days after ten blasts killed 192 and injured more than 1800.

We don't know what really happened, who orderer, planned or executed the terrorist attack, but the day will come they'll be unveiled and sent to jail for the rest of their lives.


Some links

El Mundo newspaper: A retaliation against us

Reports from a Police Informer unveil Terrorist Cell Leaders were under surveillance

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