Madrid train bombings event
also: 11 March 2004, 11th March attacks, 3-11, Madrid bomb, Madrid bombings, Madrid train attacks, March 11th, March 11th event, March 11th, 2004, Spain's 2004 elections
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Jamal Zougham carried_out_attack
Madrid train bombings documented
“One guy by the name of Jamal Zougham, Z-O-U-G-H-A-M, was actually convicted of planting explosives in a rucksack. Others went down for long sentences amounting to thought crimes. Much of the evidence was circumstantial.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Spain @ 24:17
Luis Del Pino covered_up
Madrid train bombings host_asserted
“Despite right-wing voices drumming away at the jihadist plot, the mass of Spanish people were not taken in. Dismissing the trial as irrelevant and insulting and as state theatrical production, the Association of Madrid Bombing Victims conti…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Spain @ 42:49
Operation Gladio carried_out_attack
Madrid train bombings host_asserted
“Spain's embroilment in foreign wars. This being so, the Madrid bombings may belong in a rare category where the ideological was not the ruling factor. What could have been the mysterious third force? The most compelling answer is organized …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Spain @ 38:18
Ergenekon carried_out_attack
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“was something that the crime syndicate could well do without. A socialist government traditionally soft on crime presented a much rosier prospect, with billions involved in a certain price became readily apparent worth paying for them. The …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Spain @ 40:49
Guardia Civil covered_up
Madrid train bombings host_asserted
“for the security forces, which basically is where most of the operational support for Gladio was housed. The police account stated that the large force of officers that forced open the door and fired shots before an explosion killed all of …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Spain @ 34:56
Jamal Hamidin carried_out_attack
Madrid train bombings host_asserted
“tight because they were sound reasons to believe that they were under police protection. And the same is true as the other rogue elements that were paraded before the court. They were but small fries in the service of a country's large indu…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Spain @ 38:50
Emilio Trashorras member_of
Madrid train bombings host_asserted
“a conspiracy to terrorize the railway network. The second guy, Emilio Trashoras, and I'll spell that last name, T-R-A-S-H-O-R-R-A-S, was the alleged middleman squaring the deal. He had conversations with his police contact as well the day b…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Spain @ 30:06
Jamal Hamidin member_of
Madrid train bombings host_asserted
“Three weeks after the train bombings, officers of the anti-terrorist squad called GIA go to one of the flats associated with the prospective terrorist. And it's at kind of the outskirts of Madrid. The target was a cell of supposed bombers l…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Spain @ 31:52
Rafa Zohier member_of
Madrid train bombings host_asserted
“kind of like the ones the FBI uses, I'm sure. One was named Rafa Zohier, Z-O-U-H-I-E-R, lined up conspirators up, let's see, lined the conspirators up with an explosive trafficker. In the two days before the attack, cell phone records show …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Spain @ 29:36
Operation Gladio carried_out_attack
Madrid train bombings host_asserted
“It had government forces and General Franco's forces fighting each other. Many believe that the March 11, 2004 attack was an Operation Gladio attack because there was an election.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Spain @ 10:18
José María Aznar funded
Madrid train bombings host_asserted
“paid the largest price at the poll for misleading the public. Naturally, Aznar's socialist opponent, Zapatero, finding himself so unexpectedly summoned to kiss the hand of the king, milked a whirlwind opportunity for all it was worth. The o…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Spain @ 37:47
Al Qaeda carried_out_attack
Madrid train bombings host_asserted
“paid the largest price at the poll for misleading the public. Naturally, Aznar's socialist opponent, Zapatero, finding himself so unexpectedly summoned to kiss the hand of the king, milked a whirlwind opportunity for all it was worth. The o…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Spain @ 37:47
Mentions (25)
▶ 7:50
for the next 20 years as they progressed and ranked throughout the U.S. military. So all of that's very interesting. So one of the dates in Spain that's notorious is March 11th. It's called 3-11, kind of like our 9-11. And it happened March…
▶ 8:47
bombings that you may recognize. So basically, it was a bomb that ripped through four commuter trains in Madrid. It happened in the early morning for maximum impact on 11 March 2004. It was ranked as the most devastating act of deliberate c…
▶ 10:18
It had government forces and General Franco's forces fighting each other. Many believe that the March 11, 2004 attack was an Operation Gladio attack because there was an election.…
▶ 10:47
scheduled for the 14th of March, three days later. And it was at the time a very close polling between conservatives and socialists. And keep in mind, socialist from a European perspective is not like Marxist socialism. The explosions happe…
▶ 11:15
if it's Operation Gladio, it was designed to do that, the outcome of the election. The government of Jose Mari Aznar, A-Z-N-A-R, immediately attached the blame to an organization called ETA. It was a Basque militant front. They appeared to …
▶ 12:42
His decision in the immediate aftermath of the bombings to blame the opposite party, which he backed with personal calls to the local media, appeared as a lame attempt to wiggle out of an embarrassing mistake of his own manufacturing. And i…
▶ 14:09
The incoming socialist government immediately switched attention from the rebel Basque to the cells of jihadist sympathizers, supposedly who had secured access to dynamite that was stolen from contacts in a coal mine in their northern mount…
▶ 14:38
than the discredited Basque claims. So there were several officers that were on the Madrid bomb squad, and their initials are TEDAX, T-E-D-A-X, pointed to signs of military explosives such as C-3 and C-4, which of course we've already learn…
▶ 15:07
They accused their own colleagues of removing potentially incriminating evidence that compromised the official investigation, which we see repeatedly in Operation Gladio-style events. The explosives was not really, it wasn't, the explosive …
▶ 15:39
the effects on the steel of the train cars that actually occurred. It had to have been something much higher in potency in order to produce that effect. So they referred to it as Astorius explosive. And that is like minor compared to someth…
▶ 16:08
Basically, things were not adding up. So also, there was evidence that there was a shock wave of supersonic proportion, which would have been more attributable to the C4 explosives because it was punching through heavy metal.…
▶ 16:37
significantly far away from the actual explosion. So that definitely lends itself more to the C4 explosive. The ferocity of the blast also accounts for a massive number of casualties. So if it had been the smaller amount or less potent expl…
▶ 17:06
A famous decoy rucksack loaded with this Astorius type of explosive was the sole evidence pointing in that direction, you know, because there's always going to be some element that they want you to believe to be true left on site for you th…
▶ 17:30
Hey, this is one that didn't go off. It was the dud, and it has what they want you to think is the actual explosive. So that got left in the exact place where people then found it, and it had terminal wires that hadn't been connected, blah,…
▶ 17:58
What am I totally convinced of is that after the search carried out by TEDx, there was not a single backpack containing an explosive device. And I can assure you of that, unquote. So they're saying right off the bat, that was not an actual …
▶ 18:27
The story circulated in the media that one backpack contained screws and nails intended to be shrapnel. However, autopsy showed that none of the victims were struck by any shrapnel type projectiles. So the entire thing was bogus. The chief …
▶ 18:55
in any of the victims. The image of a tightly bound cell of dedicated extremists looked decidedly unpromising when the indictments were handed down, portraying a group of Islamic new-agers, heroin traffickers, police informers, and ex-Franc…
▶ 19:24
This strange and motley crew was alleged to be capable of military-scale precision and planning smuggling explosives into the city center without arousing the smallest suspicion. The police organization had already had some alleged perpetra…
▶ 19:54
After the bombing, when a group supposedly taken by surprise in a safe apartment, they obligingly blew themselves up. The Daily Spanish paper, the second largest newspaper called El Mundo, took a highly critical line of the official jihadis…
▶ 20:24
but not the terrorist operation that brought the socialists to power, but maybe an inside job. In effect, a coup perpetrated by some of the authorities who were responsible for preventing the terror, unquote. They're much more aware, obviou…
▶ 20:54
Manuel del Pino, P-I-N-O, linked the high-profile online Liberty Digital author of several important works on March 11th, worked around the cracks in the official account to come up with the following hardcore conclusions. First, that an al…
▶ 21:27
was neither ETA nor Al-Qaeda. The bombs were ordered just three days before the election, but the planning for the operation may have been started up to a year earlier. There were two different sets of bombs, 10 loaded with high explosive, …
▶ 21:55
And that some of the police officers insisted were not even real bombs in the backpacks. Eventually, one highly sophisticated operation was superimposed on top of another, much more amateur effort that was founded by a movement called the B…
▶ 22:25
which squashed any prospect of an honest exposure from the beginning. One editorial in El Mundo suggested that the skills to pull off this operation could obviously be found in 10X, the actual specialist bomb squad belonging to the governme…
▶ 22:52
In short, a Gladio style deep state blueprint. Certainly the show trial of the 28 accused conspirators failed to produce a shred of evidence of Al Qaeda anywhere in the evidence. Seven, it's like labeling all of January 6th insurrectionists…