Madrid barajas T4 bomb explosion

bob sacamano · Post by **bob sacamano** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 9:39 am

2 police wounded. Car bomb.

sky's the limit · Post by **sky's the limit** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 3:33 pm

Yeah,

Not a good situation.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/ ... 274762.htm

Dash-Ate · Post by **Dash-Ate** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 5:35 pm

It was Caused by Seperatists? Don't we have those here in Canada? Didn't Harper just appease them? Didn't they try something like that here in the 1970's?

Dash-Ate · Post by **Dash-Ate** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 9:03 pm

Madrid Airport bombing receives scant attention "
Terror's Trivial When It's Not Muslims

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Thursday, January 4, 2007

How many people who aren't news junkies know that Madrid Airport was bombed on Saturday? Relatively few I would venture, and that's because major western governments and their media mouthpieces don't hype terror unless Muslims are behind it.

I personally only caught the story a couple of days after it happened on an obscure channel on UK digital satellite called Euro News. Operatives of the Basque separatist organization ETA packed 800kg of explosives in a car bomb that ripped apart the parking lot of Barajas Madrid Airport, killing two and injuring twenty people.

Now imagine if "Al-Qaeda" bombed Heathrow or LAX. You'd never hear the end of it, the news would be on it 24/7 and entering an airport would be akin to checking into a concentration camp. And yet Saturday's blast was greeted by little more than bylines and muted dismissals by the mainstream media.

Before 9/11 terrorism was seen through the prism of a criminal problem because fewer people lose their lives as a result of it than do those who get struck by lightening. There have been just 2,929 terror induced deaths since 9/11 according to the Bush administration's own numbers and more people every year die in swimming pool accidents - hardly the mega threat to western society that many have portrayed. Put in this context, Saturday's bombing would not have made the top of the news because like all terrorism that occurs in the west, it is extremely rare, random and, like murder, rape or theft, is impossible to ever truly prevent.

But in the "post 9/11 world," the artificial creation and maintenance of the myth of "Islamofascism" is dependent on ceaseless obsession with the imminent threat of Muslim terror around every corner, and that's why something like the Madrid Airport bombing would have been shoved down our throats until kingdom come - but only if Muslims were behind it.

Terror attacks like Saturday's become mere pre-cursors to the "and finally" puff piece if they can't be pinned on "Islamofascists" and the scam recycled.

It's almost a national emergency nowadays if Muslims - God forbid - are seen praying on an aeroplane, and their every action being scrutinized as a foreboding for the apocalypse, which only breeds suspicion across all of society, has turned the land of the free into the United States of Hysteria.

Expat · Post by **Expat** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:06 am

Dash, Do not call Euro News an obscure channel, please, unless you want to admit not watching many international news. It is aired simultaneously in seven languages, and is seen all over the world. I wish that our CBC could do the same...

ZBB118.10 · Post by **ZBB118.10** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:37 am

Well said Dash. Now, wait for it, altogether...1..2..3..here come the CNN and Fox news lovers responses.....

Expat · Post by **Expat** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:47 am

ZBB118.10 wrote:Well said Dash. Now, wait for it, altogether...1..2..3..here come the CNN and Fox news lovers responses.....

Actually CNN International is not that bad, but Al Jazeera is still better!

bob sacamano · Post by **bob sacamano** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:51 am

That's a very good point that Dash brought up. All you have to do is watch fox and cnn. Like yesteday, there was a stench in NYC, so right away they play it as if it was a terrorist attack. At some port in Miami (I think?) they had a box that they thought was a bomb, so they put on the whole show, at the end they blow it up. Turned out to contain sprinkler parts.

Just scare the sheep. If I had some spare $$$, I'd invest in nuclear suits. Once they hit the shelves in walmart, I'd be a rich man.

Euro news is not bad. I like their no comment clips.

Jazeera was shit for a while, but I catch myself watching it every once in a while.

Driving Rain · Post by **Driving Rain** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 11:45 am

What's that line form the John Mayer song "Waiting for the World to Change"....

IF you get your news from television, what you get is what you got
Cause when they own the information oh...they can bend it all they want.

Smart young man that.