This is only one aspect of the Spaniards suddenly getting a big hard whack with the Clue Batâ„¢. A wider reading in the news turns up stories where Spanish intelligence, along with some French operatives, have established that Spain was a hotbed of al Qaeda activity well before the Iraq war, due to what was described as a "porous border to the South." Well, DUH!
Before this, received opinion in Spain and elsewhere in EUtopia was that Spanish participation in the Iraq occupation precipitated the train bombing at Madrid Atocha.
I, too take some heart at the fatwa issued by Spanish Muslim clerics. As I far as I know, this is unprecedented. Most rhetoric from Muslims since 9/11 has been, to only cite the best cases, equivocal. I have been waiting very patiently, along with what I know must be a great multitude of non-Muslims, for the self-proclaimed "moderate majority" to denounce the Islamofascists. This would include not only al-Qaeda and the older terror organizations, such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah, but the entire Wahabbist sect. We must take some blame in this last case. Wahabbism is the spiritual and ideological core of Islamofascism, and the U.S. refuses to condemn it and their headquarters nation, because that happens to be in Saudi Arabia, and we can't endanger our 87 octane drug of choice. A lot of these things are virtually ignored by the media, such as the fact that the demonstrations by Hezbollah in Lebanon are portrayed as those of a somehow independent organization, while Hezbollah is and has always beenn nothing more than a creature of the Syrian government, another part of the swamp that's due for some serious draining.
