It looks as if the Easter threats to Spain may have not been removed by the suicides of the Madrid bombing ringleaders. Note also that the video refers to jihad in the context of "the expulsion from Al Andalus." To radical Muslims, Spain is as much part of the dar al-Islam, the House of Islam, as Israel — and jihad must be waged against the present occupiers of both to win them back. The Spanish appeasers may have signed the ticket for the re-Islamization of Spain.
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police have found a video in the rubble of a building blown up by suspected Islamic militants last weekend in which armed Arabs threaten war unless Spain withdraws troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.Mainly Roman Catholic Spain is on high alert as it goes into the long Easter holiday weekend after the suspected al Qaeda-linked Madrid train bombings on March 11 that killed 191 people and a thwarted bombing of a railway line on Friday.
"We're not resting easy. There could be another (attack)," said an Interior Ministry official on Thursday, who declined to be named.
Police and troops have been deployed to guard dams, power plants, high-speed rail lines and other possible targets.
The video may have been recorded by the three masked Arabs before the blast, triggered by the suspected Islamic militants as police raided the Madrid apartment building, officials said. The tape was damaged in the explosion.
"You know about Spain's crusade against Muslims, the expulsion from Al Andalus and the tribunals of the Inquisition, not that long ago," the men said in a message, vowing a "jihad" or holy war.
The interior ministry released a transcript in Spanish.
Much of modern Spain was known as Al Andalus when it was ruled by the Moors until their defeat and expulsion in 1492. Spain now has a Moroccan community of around half a million.
SOME SUSPECTS STILL BEING HUNTED
Nearly a month after the Madrid train bombings, several suspects are still unaccounted for.
Police are holding 19 people, most of them Moroccans, in connection with the bombings.
The government says they, and seven men who blew themselves up in Saturday's police raid, account for most of those it wants over the March 11 attacks.
Police are investigating a letter faxed to a newspaper on Saturday, purportedly from Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda, threatening more attacks unless Spain withdraws its 1,300 troops from Iraq and a smaller contingent in Afghanistan.
Easter is marked by huge public processions in Spain, adding to security fears.
The U.S. embassy has warned Americans to be vigilant when travelling by train and using other public transport in Spain.
Security has been stepped up on Spain's borders, especially in Ceuta and Melilla, Spanish territories on the North African coast.
One of the suspects in custody was arrested at the Ceuta-Morocco border crossing on Friday.
Sources close to the anti-terror investigation have said Islamic militants may have been planning a series of Easter attacks.
El Pais newspaper said Madrid hotels expected Easter occupancy to be down 20 percent as a result of security fears.
Europe will wake up, but not until the last minute, when they realise their way of life is under attack.
I mean sure Europe disagrees with the US, and some even hate the US, but the jihadis don't understand that Europeans don't hate America enough to commit suicide.
Spain and the rest of Europe as well as America keep looking for bombers and WMDs which weaken the will, but also are a DISTRACTION from the other invaders that are lurking among them and eating away at society from within. How do we get their attention away from the violence to this other more effective and pervasive threat? We aren't committing suicide as much as we are in the coils of a large, crushing snake, that is about to choke the life out of our culture.
I have faith in Spain. They are going to pull out of Spain because most of them never wanted to be in there to begin with, and when the Madrid Massacre unfolded the ruling party acted as if it were trying to cover up the real identity of the terrorist. Not because they were intimidated or in any way will appease the terrorist.
Remember after 9/11, in which thousands of innocent civilians were senselessly killed by Jihadist for the sake of Islam, Americas President proclaimed Islam a " great religion " invited kooky Islamic Clerics to the Whitehouse and accepted the Koran! Talk about appeasement, now that pissed me off. What would Bush had done if the terrorist killed hundreds of thousands or millions? Be televised praying to Mecca five times a day?
Spains political leadership have not shown such brazen specticles of Islamic patrionising like Bush put on after 9/11. And within it's borders Spain will kick jihadist butt. Europe in general is not so hung up on the innocent-until-proven-guilty ethos like here in America. If they suspect you of something they will round your ass up and gather the evidence while you sit behind bars.
The jihadist are delusional and proclaim they have somehow " crushed a pillar of the crusaders " that is just a lot of hype and B.S. We must not also view the world through the delusions of fanatics. Playing a role in their fantasy world is not our goal. Our goal is to protect innocent people and provide for them as many choices to live life as they themselves sees fit. In short protect and enhance free lifestyles.
It is not so much going on a crusade to defeat Islam. Once people have freedom, they will have no need of Islam. Spain will serve the world well in turning back the Islamic attack on freedom.
It looks to me like Europe has a huge problem with radical muslims living in their society.Could the countries of Europe keep getting lucky week after week catching terror attacks just before they happen?I don't think so.They have let poilitical correctness handcuff them while they watched radical islam grow in front of their eyes.America is in the same boat to a lesser extent.We were awakened on 9/11 while Europe seems to need to feel their own pain before they join us in the war for our survival.It amazes me how liberal political correctness and the thought police have frozen the nations from fighting the enemy who has openly declared war on them.
I remember meeting a Jihadi in Wood Green London about this time last year. I asked him why they made war on Israel - because its muslime land....I said why don´t you make war on Spain - it was Islamic once...he didn´t like the idea at first but I forced him to accept the logic. He then agreed Jihad was necessary on Spain. I then said that he was an occupier here as England occupies Cornwall and that I have the right to kill him. He said no - he was invited in - I said not by me - he said my problem was with the English not with him. I said why don´t you blame the English for letting the Jews into Palestine..he just smiled.
Ah, the Mona Lisa smile, or was it more like the cat that ate the canary smile? At least he knows that you know...
Hey Cornish Intifada:
There's nothing like humor to take the wind out of dogmatic fundamentalists.
How do you say 'Allah Akbar' in Cornish? Or is that 'Cornishstan'?
Mike H
deth da, CI, ha fat'l osta?
KERNOW BYS VYKEN!
how about "bramm an gath" ?, and BTW "cornishtan" is just HJ bollox, the name is KERNOW.
I got it. It's KERNOW.
Cornishstan was a pun for our muslim visitors.
what is "bramm an gath"?
Mike H
"cat's fart"
damn, i've messed up this posting business, "bramm an gath" is not, nor meant to be a translation of anything, it's an old cornish exclamation of annoyance at the kind of absolute ranting rubbish that hood jihadi guy throws at everyone, you can say what you like about what you like mr hood, but when you insult us celts you've gone too far!, i'm no expert on religion but surely ther's nothing religious about what he's putting out, i work with several muslims and no way, i repeat, no way do i believe he speaks for them! i have no problem with anyones religion, ideologies that promote hate and violence are something else, peace is for everyone, not just a few!
Angof, I'm still carrying my sgain dubh, just in case!
HAL- and so you should anyway, as it's an item of cultural expression, Alba Gu Braugh! on a serious note, a muslim lady i worked with at the time of sep 11 was close to tears as we were discussing it, quite a contrast to the comments i remember reading from a range of secular, liberal, left "progressive" media pundits who seem to be able to justify anything that happens if it serves some cause or other they happen to agree with, but i've long given up trying to figure out what the european left does actually believe in anymore, and that worries me deeply, is the whole bloody world dancing along happily towards the abyss?
Angof, "- and so you should anyway, as it's an item of cultural expression"... I'll try to remember that if the police ever catch me with it. Seems our local gendarmes have a thing against double edged boot knives. Funny, but when I tried to buy one, the only one I could find was made in Pakistan. Still it's a pretty little thing and looks right at home in my Harris tweeds. I wonder how my auld Scottish and Irish ancestors would feel?
DIA DHUIT HAL- i suppose you can keep it in your boot but it's really meant to go inside the long socks you should be wearing with the kilt! they'd probably advise you to carry a claymore but i feel quite sure that the "cultural accessory" plea wouldn't wash with that one! on a slightly more on-topic note, this is one of my bugbear points,your irish and scots ancestors would have a lot to say about the total contempt of todays progressive, liberal, multicultural diversity preachers to the indigenous languages and culture of a people who have been in these islands since at least 300bc.if anybody wants to talk persecution, how about this for the displacepeople category? - 1 million or so irish fleeing famine, 250,000 scots-irish fleeing religious persecution, 100,000 irish shipped off to the west indies as slaves after cromwells campaigns, and tens of thousand of scots cleared off the land to make way for sheep, many of those put on ships for the new world at gunpoint. their languages have variously been banned, ridiculed and literally beaten out of children at schools as late as the end of the 19th century. and in todays multicultural etc etc etc, no-one seems to give a shit. ranting aside, i hope theres a valid point in there somewhere, slainte agus saol agat!
dammit, lest anyone might read that post and think there's a whole new humanitarian crisis afoot, i should have said hows this for the "HISTORY of displaced people category" i've now finished contrasting the keeness of liberals to value everyones history, culture, tradition etc with their total lack of interest in our own, now why would that be i wonder?
Angof, there is noone left in my clan who can speak the old tongue. I appreciate it, but you'll have to translate. Hard to find a college that teaches Keltic. My Claymore hangs on the wall beside my fieplace, BTW. No kidding. Sadly, I have no kilt, can't find a family tartan anywhere. Have to keep me sgain dubh in a nice pair of Tony Lama's. Hope you'll pop up to the top story and we can continue our chat there. Listening to the Garry Owen and quaffing a pint of Guinness 'till then amigo.
It has become fashionable to blame the United States for everything relating to militant islamic-sponsored violence worldwide. Whatever the reasons for this, the world community will be at risk for staggering attacks worse than what was witnessed on that terrible day, 9-11. How can anuone POSSIBLY say such a thing? The muslims have perpetrated vastly worse acts than 9-11 in past centuries and this aspect of Islam has reactivated itself under the umbrella of al-Qaeda and other militant Islamic organizations.
The world at large has apparently forgotten the carnage of Smyrna, Greece in 1922. It has forgotten the horrors inflicted on Hindustan in the 8th century by invading muslim armies. It has forgotten the Turkish-inflicted massacres of Armenians, Assyrians, Hindus, Zoroastrians. The world has forgotten that it was haj Mohammed al-Husseini who inspired Hitler to seek glory in the genocide against the European Jews less than 4 generations ago. I could go on, but I won't. Those who do not learn from the past are condemned to repeat it. Armed by Third World mafia organizations and technology stolen from the western world, enriched by petrodollars, and emboldened by tyrannical, megalomaniacal leaders Islam, and inadverdently enabled by the western world's permissiveness the stage has been set for a repeat of past tragedies. Please, Western Europe and other corners of the non-muslimwake up. This was set to happen, probably even before the birth of the United States. If you will value your freedom and sovereignty you will present a united front before the malignant militant forces of radical Islam before it is too late.
P.S.---Those of you out there who believe that islam is on par with other religions out there had best take a look at the Koran and take a good look at what has been put into the minds of the muslim world. I guarantee your view will change INSTANTLY. I ask of you what do you make of ideology that pronounces killing as legitimate means of advancing ideology? Before you answer, remember that the deity of the Judeo-Christian faith commanded 'THOU SHALT NOT KILL.' This topic therefore goes far beyond the casual commentaries put forth on this subject. Think carefully.