Interesting tidbit from Empire Notes
The New York Times reports that, according to Spanish Prime Minister Rodriguez Zapatero, before leaving office in April the Aznar administration erased all records related to the Madrid bombings:
“There was not a single paper, not a single piece of data in computer form or on paper, absolutely nothing in the executive offices of the presidency because there was a massive erasing,” he said during more than 14 hours of testimony before the parliamentary commission investigating the attacks.
The erasure was performed by a private company, because of course corporations always perform tasks better than the government, and the bill for 1200 euros was left behind.
Of course, we already know that the Aznar government engaged in a massive campaign to lie about the attacks and place the blame on ETA rather than an Islamist jihadi group, even when the idea was ludicrous from the beginning to anyone familiar with ETA’s MO and that of al-Qaeda-like groups.
It also must be observed that often governments infiltrate and use Terrorist groups for their own political uses- a good example being the Red Brigades, etc. in Italy in the P2 scandal.
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