News, April 2004

Suspected terrorists commit spectacular suicide in Leganés flat, south of Madrid

4th April and later. On Saturday 3rd April, seven suspected members of the 3/11 terrorist group commited suicide by blowing themselves up in a flat in the town of Leganés, just south of Madrid. among them were the principal suspects still at large. As a result of their deaths, it will be far harder to assess the background to the train bombings and the links that these men had with others, particularly Al Quaeda.

It remains a mystery that these men should have continued to live their lives so openly in the aftermath of 11-M and that they should not have perceived the threat of the net being drawn around them, or that they should otherwise have deliberately chosen to end it all this way.

The men who died in the suicide were also suspected of including one or more who planted a bomb on the AVE high speed rail line from Madrid to Seville found incomplete on Friday, 2nd in the morning. Again, the fact that it was incomplete and that the Civil Guard were already suspecting an imminent attack on the line -and searching the trains- before the discovery, generates more questions than can now be answered.