March 12, 2004

Spain holds period of silence as hunt continues for terrorist train bombers National Post - Daily life ground to a halt across Spain on Friday as the nation observed a period of solemn silence to honour the 199 people killed in the Madrid terrorist train bombings. ---------------------------------------- Although police found a stolen van with seven detonators and an Arabic-language tape of Koranic verses parked in a suburb near where the stricken trains originated, no one is quite sure that islamic militants might have been involved.    There are web site  documents that'tie al-Qaeda to blast'.   Also the attacks were marked by simultaneous multiple explosions, a hallmark of an Al-Qaeda operation.   Don't get me wrong, there are some citizens that feel that this might be al-Qaeda.  However they excuse the poor terrorists, after all they are only reacting to the liberation of Iraq.  These "citizens" hold a banner reading, 'The bombs dropped in Iraq explode in Madrid' during a protest march through central Barcelona. 10:13:34 PM