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Suicide bombing in Morocco marks the anniversary of the Madrid bombings and signals growing terrorist threat

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Sunday's suicide bombing in an Internet Cafe of Casablanca reflects the growing pressure of the Islamist and terrorist networks in Morocco. The ongoing investigation revealed that suicide bombers were planning larger scale attacks, confirming that the country could be the next target of a North African terrorist network under consolidation following the GSPC offensive in Algeria, causing 50 deaths since the beginning of the year and after violence involving GSPC members erupted in Tunisia in December and January.

The suicide bombing in Casablanca came three years after the Madrid bombings of March 11, 2004. It was also in a Cyber cafe where Moroccan authorities arrested last week in Casablanca a key leader of the GICM (Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group), Saad Houssaini, a veteran of Afghanistan and co-founder of the GICM, wanted since the Casablanca bombings of May 2003. Saad Houssaini was also connected to at least one of the Madrid bombers. According to Spanish Court records, in 1996, Hussaini formed in Valencia a radical Islamic group to plan terrorist attacks in Spain and Morocco along with three other activists, including Allekema Lamari. Lamari's remains were positively identified in the Leganes apartment were several 11M bombers blew themselves up after the attacks. DNA traces of Lamari were later recovered in a car used by the bombers to transport bombing devices on the morning of March 11, 2004. Saad Houssaini is also believed to be related to the 9/11 plot. According to the German authorities, he travelled from Istanbul to Karachi (under the name of Abdellah Hosayni) with Said Bahaji, an alleged member of the Hamburg cell, on September 3, 2001.

The arrest of Houssaini, who appeared as the rising figure among the jihadi groups in Morocco following the Casablanca bombings and the killing of Karim Al Mejjati, alleged mastermind of the Madrid bombings, in Saudi Arabia in April 2005, could have triggered the Sunday's bombing in Casablanca.

The bombing is a new indication of the growing threat posed by Al Qaeda affiliates in the region in an effort to reinforce and coordinate their actions under the umbrella organization of "Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb".

The fight against these networks has been active in Algeria and especially Morocco, where at least two separate terrorist networks have been dismantled over the last 6 months. Efforts have also intensified in Europe, where these networks have many supporters and where they are determined to export their violence. But if the European Intelligence and law-enforcement agencies have proven in the past their strong ability and efficiency in identifying terrorist threats and neutralizing terrorist networks, the European legal framework has failed to provide such efficient and preventive actions against the support networks of these groups.

The best example was provided last October, when a combined action of several European countries, including Italy and Switzerland, led to the arrest of several GSPC financial facilitators. The investigation uncovered that the cell has been able to transfer 1.3 million Euros via banks, 320,000 Euros in money transfers and thousands more via cash couriers to Algeria. Most of the cell members, including its leader Djamel Lounici, have already been identified in connection to terrorist networks as early as 1994. Some of them had already been indicted and condemned before being released in recent years. In one of these early warnings, a telephone intercept conducted in 1994 by the Italian authorities, cell members referred to Europe as a "paradise" where "there is no control whatsoever". A key member of the cell claimed that the European governments "pretend to be vigilant, but in the end they do nothing. They only try to impress people".

By Jean-Charles Brisard of the Terror Finance Blog

16 Comments

There's more to suicide bombing then meets the eye. I suggest you read up on it, esp this article which i find very interesting.

And if you have some time on your hands, try this speech, it has a lot of info on mind control & brainwashing. Real Manchurian Candidate type shit. If ya don't believe it, read it and decide for yourself.

Well, my posts have been erased censored without trace from both webpages, and I would like some kind of explanation (which is not the same as saying than I am expecting it, I have little faith in human beings).

Regards,

Joe Aguilar

Joe -

Which pages censored your comments?

A.L.

Seems like I remember Joe having quite a long comment right in this thread.

I read J Aguilar's comment here too.

Thank Godness!!! For a moment I thought what I experience every day in Spain had infected the Anglosphere.

I posted here two comments, with links to other articles about 3/11 I have published. I added another comment to the Terrorfinance blog, that one is gone without trace too.

The articles are mainly translations of news that came out in Spainish media regarding the case, that flagrantly contradict Mr. Brisard statements, such as this one concerning the testimony of the informer Cartagena before the court or this one on the new analyses carried out to evidence found at the sites of the explosions.

If you read the first link, you'll find that key evidence in the 3/11 case (Cartagena's controller notes 6 and 10) have dissapear without trace... well, I hope these ways we Spaniards are so used to suffer do not extend to the Anglosphere, otherwise I don't think we'll win this war.

J. Aguilar comments are based on baseless rumors and 11-M conspiracy theories. I was the first to kill many of these theories right after 11-M, including the government's own ETA theory. My post is exclusively based on Spanish legal investigative and Court material, to which I contributed in part.

Nice way to kill a conspiracy. Don’t respond to it, just make the comments disappear.

Outrageous.

A request: please put a disclaimer on your future posts here at WoC (if there are any) to remind people that you will be deleting any comments that dissent from your worldview.

Such a disclaimer will save rational people from wasting their time trying to engage you in a discussion if they disagree with anything you said, and would double as a clarification that the Orwellian memoryholing tactic is yours specifically and not a general WoC occurrence.

Outrageous and considerably beneath WOC, in my opinion. If you want to dispute a comment or link, have the courage to do it and the faith in the readers to believe they will come to the correct conclusions. You've lost credibility, not retained it.

I have no direct knowledge of what's taken place. But I would hope that AL, Joe and Evariste are attempting to determine if the source of this lies with

(1) the tech infrastructure of WoC or comment "commits",

(2) flawed execution of policy, such as one or more delete errors by a Marshal, or

(3) something else.

I await further developments with great interest.

Joe - email me please...I can't find any trace of deleted comments (not that I would....but they weren't moved to junk); I'll try and sift the logs when I get time and see if something shows.

Deleting comments is a serious and bad thing. I'll dig in and report back.

Meanwhile, if you want to repost them (and email them to me seperately), I'll make sure they appear.

A.L.

The comments were deleted; I'm looking into what happened, and will explain fully when I know what it was.

A.L.

First of all, I'd like to emphasize that I did not think that Armed Liberal, Joe Katzman or Evariste had anything to do with the deleting of my comments, since in similar cases they have always edited them (including mine). In addition, the same modus operandi was used in both webpages, terror finance and WoC, which points towards a common and external source.

Secondly, JC Brisard wrote:

J. Aguilar comments are based on baseless rumors and 11-M conspiracy theories.

FACT A: Four high rank Spanish police officers, the leadership of the Spanish Scientific Police, are currently indicted for altering a forensic report to avoid naming ETA in the 3/11 case.

The unaltered forensic report is in the left hand of this picture , the forged one, to the right.

The news is here

Those police officers are:

- the chief officer of the Scientific Police: Miguel Ángel Santano, related to the Socialist police trade union SUP
- his deputy, Pedro Luis Mélida,
- the chief of the Analysis Unit of the Scientific Police, José Andradas and
- the chief of the section, Francisco Ramírez, direct commander of the three forensic experts that denounced the facts.

True or False, Mr. Brisard?

FACT B: After a new judge was appointed to the 3/11 case, new analysis on the samples taken at the sites of the explosions have shown the presence of DNT, dinitro toluene, which is NOT a component of Goma-2 ECO, the explosive allegedly sourced by those Muslims, according to the version of what happened Mr. Brisard contributed in part to built.

The news is here

True or False, Mr. Brisard?

By the way, the previous reports on the kind of explosive used in the trains, included in Mr. Brisard's and others version, had no legal value as you can read here , because the analysis were not carried out in Official laboratories (Scientific Police or Criminal Section of the Civil Guard) or were signed by two experts.

FACT C: Is it true that Jamal Ahmidan (if that was his real name) one of the alleged perpetrators of 3/11, according to the version Mr. Brisard contributed to built, and one of the moors that died in the Leganes apartment explosion, and whose amazing life is portrayed by Luis del Pino and translated by me here , had a Spanish partner, a son studying in a Catholic school and went to a Civil Guard office to report that his goats (or lambs) had been stolen one week AFTER the attacks, as it is shown in the 3/11 judicial summary itself (click here ).

FACT D: There are no autopsy reports on the seven moors that blew up in the Leganes apartment, as the Spanish law requires in any violent death, as you can read here

FACT E:

POLICE OFFICERS VISITED HER BUILDING AND ASKED FOR HER IDENTITY

A Girl takes a Spanish flag and Critical Mottos against the Official Version of 3/11 Away from her Balcony "Fearing" the Police

A neighbour of Merida has retired a critical banner against the Official Version of 3/11 that had hung from the balcony of her house, after receiving pressures from the National Police. According to what COPE has informed, the woman had unfolded a Spanish flag and a banner in which she asks herself: "Who is behind 3/11?". The young Merida-girl questions an Official Version plagued of contradictions and evidences of falsification. Officers of the National Police visited the building and asked the neighbours who was living in the apartment from where these critics were exhibited. The affected one recognized that it has decided to retire the banner "because of fear" and denounced the lack of freedom to express criticism against the government.

Other questions Mr. Brisard may answer:

Were there suicide bombers on the trains, as the pro-Socialist radio SER told at 10:00 PM on 3/11?

Why does the Skoda Fabia in which the clothes and other "detachable" elements containing the DNA of Allekhema Lamari were discovered, wasn't seen the day of the explosions in the Alcala station parking? Why there is no picture of that car there, though it was plenty of police officers and journalists?

Why do the seven moors of Leganes waited until the building was evacuated to blow themselves up? The only victim was hit by debris, therefore they targeted no one. Does not Islam forbid suicide besides the Jihad?

Is it true that in the Casablanca bombings no American interest were attacked? Why Jew and Spanish objectives were the main targets? Is it true the explosives used in the attack were stolen from the Moroccan army? Why do the attacks were carried out one week before Spanish regional and local elections? 14 suicide bombers for six small attacks including one in a empty building, isn't that a strange ratio if the targets are not skycrapers?

Is Frank J. Gaffney also a follower of the conspiracy theory?

Mr. Brisard wrote:

I was the first to kill many of these theories right after 11-M, including the government's own ETA theory. My post is exclusively based on Spanish legal investigative and Court material, to which I contributed in part.

On the latter I was sure of, but thanks for confirming me it.

I could continue, but it is already a too long comment to be readable.

[…]The court sessions are proving that the information we have been publishing during this two years are right, and that since that March 11th the Spanish Public Opinion was deceived deliberately by the ones that wanted to start the today’s process of destruction of the Constitutional State. Thus, the anxiety of many as they see that the witnesses are confirming, one by one, before the Judge, what the independent media has been publishing.

Luis del Pino, today’s post in his blog

I think that anxiety has reached WoC, through the article of Mr. Brisard. The deleting of comments is a clear sign that you are done.

I personally know how annoyed bosses became for rising costs, but I am glad to inform you that to massacre Spaniards is turning out to be more expensive than firstly assessed.

Regards,

J Aguilar

Do you really believe in these conspiracy theories?? Although there are some good points in the material you have provided, it is very hard for me to believe it! Some people just want others to see things as they do...

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