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Al-Quaeda claims responsibility....possibly

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had a feeling it would be them :mad:
i just hope it doesnt spread over here , i noticed this this morning , wonder if it will make any difference :(

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And 911 days after Sept. 11th too. :shocked:

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coincidence , methinks not somehow :mad: :mad: :mad:

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912 actually. And 911 is a number of significance only in the American notation of the western calendar (here it would be 119), which isn't the same as the Arabic calendar anyway (I believe 11th September 2001 was of signifcance in Islam though).

People can get too fixated on interesting coincidences, which turn up everywhere. It's a form of superstition.

Mind you it was 2 1/2 years to the day too (11/9/2001 to 11/3/2004).

Edit: I think the timing was more to do with disrupting the democratic process in Spain and prevent the re-election of an Iraq-war-supporting government. Hence the time from now till the next election here in the UK is going to be dangerous, so keep your eyes open and your wits about your. Seriously (and I'm not often serious).

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I wonder if the world will refer to the Madrid bombing as '11/3'....I doubt it though.

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Of course if they'd have done it *last* month, it would have been 112 which is a European version of 911 (ie the number for the Emergency Services).

One for the Black Helicopter Brigade...

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I am not convinced it is them.. Dont they usualy use suicide bombers.. This attack was well planned - Does not seem to be alcieda's style...

P.S. 112 is a worldwide emergency number !

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Why should Al Qaeda *need* to use Suicide Bombers in a situation like this?

Normally they're used by terrorists in high security situations where just leaving a bag etc around wouldn't work. Because there wasn't such high security in Spain, they could use that technique without too much concern.

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Very true but for them its all about glory ! They feel it a great honor to die for there cause......

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More to the point, if al-Qaeda (or their associates, really, since they seem to operate on a franchise principle) could pull off something like this (a conventional terrorist bombing in Madrid) presumably Eta could have. If I were Spanish I'd be asking serious questions of my government and its boasts about being tough on terrorists. The current predictions for the election tend to suggest that serious questions aren't being answered.

BBC, 21:23 Sunday
"Spain's opposition Socialist party has claimed an unexpected victory in the country's general election with almost all the votes counted.

The Socialists have won 43% of the vote while the centre-right Popular Party has garnered 38%, reports say"

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slightly off topic but: :2up: :2up: :2up:
:afire:


also.....

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I wonder what the security forces deem to be likely targets (I mean ones which they don't already have inteligence on the likelyhood)

If I was a terrorist and really wanted to strike fear into a nation, I'd target out of the way villages with huge explosives.
How the heck can the forces protect against something like that?

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I might be misreading here, but are you suggesting Al Qaeda do not plan there attacks well? It seems to me that you need to be pretty well organised to pull off something like 9/11.