Spain furious as US blocks access to Madrid bombing 'chief'

[dailykoff]

Spain furious as US blocks access to Madrid bombing 'chief'
From (London) Times Online
February 15, 2007


The al-Qaeda leader who created, trained and directed the terrorist cell that carried out the Madrid train bombings has been held in a CIA “ghost prison” for more than a year. Spanish officials told The Times last night that they are furious to have been denied access to Mustafa Setmarian Nasar, a Syrian-born terrorist who has been part of the al-Qaeda leadership since the late 1980s.

"This is Spain's most wanted man in the terrorist world - it is galling to know that he is in the hands of an ally and they will not help us," a Spanish official said. Madrid’s anger became known on the day that 29 men went on trial in the Spanish capital in connection with the bomb attacks which killed 191 people in March 2004.


Mustafa Setmarian Nasar, who is being held in n secret location by the CIA

Setmarian, 49, who lived in Madrid, married a Spanish woman and holds Spanish citizenship, inspired and established Spain’s first Islamist terror cells. Searches after the March 2004 bombings uncovered documents which appeared to link the terrorists to Setmarian and he his thought to have issued a coded order giving the go-ahead for the attack.

Setmarian was in Afghanistan in late 2001 when the Taleban regime fell and moved with his family to Pakistan where he continued to be active in al-Qaeda. A tall man with a pale complexion and flame red hair, Setmarian travelled widely and was often mistaken for a Westerner. He was frequently described as having “Irish looks”.

more at link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article1391123.ece

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Does this guy look Syrian to you? He doesn't to me, which is one of many reasons I suspect that the Madrid train bombing was an election ad made in the USA. Fortunately for Spain it failed to reelect Junior's neocon buddy.

[noise]

1. Reminds

me of the Hamburg cell trials in which the US wouldn't let Ramzi Bin al-Shibh testify which resulted in at least one acquittal.

[Tim Howells]

2. Thanks! Why not post this in GD too?

After all, this doesn't really have anything to
do with September 11 (as our hyperactive disinfo team
here will no doubt be informing you).

Tim Howells