His name is Agustin Diaz de Mera, he is now Member of the European Parliament with the conservatives and was before 14th of March 2004 the head of the Spanish National Police.
Since the blast happened the spanish popular party tried as hard as possible to put the blame on basque separatists, since would the attack be perpetrated by islamists, then public opinion would penalise spanish participation in the iraqi was, specially the "Photo of the Azores" where Jose Maria Aznar showed unconditional support to George W. Bush's action in Irak.
Obsessed with the massive mobilisation of voters to remove PP from goverment, and unable to accept elections' results. Part of the right wing, specially the neocon media, has tried to spread the conspiracy theory.
The conspiracy theory is based in the following hypothesis:
1. ETA is behind 11 of march attacks
2. Islamists put the bombs in the trains.
3. The socialists win power, and the islamists get what they want (remove of troops) and separatists a new status of independence.
The right wing has brought several proofs that have been showed false and now that a process is going on, the latest idea was to have mr. Diaz de Mera, to say that a report by the police found relationships between ETA and Al Qaeda. When asked to provide more evidence and also the name of the official who conducted such report, so as that report could be part of investigations, Diaz de Mera said he would like to keep that persons name in secret.
The court asked him to take time to contact his sources and then come back. Diaz de Mera finally wrote a letter yesterday providing his sources' name.
But little after that the source's whose name is Enrique García Castaño, an experienced person in police affairs and counter terrorism. Has written a reply, in such reply he claims that the now MEP Diaz de Mera asked him to cover his lie, he added that no report ever existed about links between ETA and Al Quaeda.
The spanish soap opera goes on....
http://www.elplural.com/politica/detail.php?id=10938
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The same for this case.
My opinion is that the PP will gather more support in the next local and autonomic elections (27th of may) but still the socialists will get a lot of votes since public opinion has a very bad opinion on PP's oportunistic strategy.
As for these kinds of comments I find them so low quality they do not deserve, imho, any kind of rational analysis.
Didn't mean to bring more attention than was due to their colorful comment, just wondering who it was directed to (translation of capulla). Perhaps it's another derogatory name. If so, I can see some angry people have become irrational in their responses to this news.
I have not find that comment under the article in "el plural" so I cannot find who it was directed to. Anyway for some reason I do not understand, in "El Plural" comments always seem unrelated to actual content.
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It was at this point that the IRA was "linked" (a dubious link, to be sure) to the Soviet Union. They were also linked to Lybia, because they had bought weapons from the Lybian government (they ahd bought weapons from the US too, but they were never linked with the American Revolution!!!).
The question is: How long will people keep believing this Bullsh....um...propaganda?
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