but that would probably end up helping re-elect bush, which is something they don't want. But then again the CT's at my work tell me the expect another anthax attack near the elections . I don't really think its going to happen, but these are crazy times we are in.

Al Qaeda thought two or three blows would make Spain withdraw from Iraq. In the end, one blow proved sufficient. This does not bode well for other European countries - are we weaker we thought and than Al Qaeda believed? From CNN: http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/03/16/spain.invest/index.html Bombs 'to split Spain from allies' Tuesday, March 16, 2004 Posted: 1043 GMT (1843 HKT) Ten bombs exploded on four trains in three stations. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Story Tools -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VIDEO Video alleges al Qaeda behind attack PLAY VIDEO -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A town in mourning PLAY VIDEO -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arrests made in Spanish bomb probe PLAY VIDEO RELATED Gallery: Terror in Madrid Gallery: Mourning Madrid's dead Gallery: Leaders react to attacks • Massacre in Madrid -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • World solidarity for Madrid victims • Interactive: Map of blast sites • Video claims al Qaeda to blame • Timeline: Separatist group ETA • On the scene: Blasts amid tight security • Eyewitnesses describe chaos • Outrage at Madrid attack • Explosives intercepted in Spain • Spain police find railway bomb • U.S. won't raise terror threat level after Spanish blasts -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • TIME.com: Regional ruckus in Spain -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • CNN in Spanish QUICKVOTE Have Spanish authorities been sufficiently open about who they believe was to blame for the Madrid terror attacks? Yes No VIEW RESULTS YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS Madrid (Spain) al Qaeda ETA Acts of terror or Create your own Manage alerts | What is this? MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- A document published months before national elections reveals al Qaeda planned to separate Spain from its allies by carrying out terror attacks. A December posting on a Internet message board used by al Qaeda and its sympathizers and obtained by CNN, spells out a plan to topple the pro-U.S. government. "We think the Spanish government will not stand more than two blows, or three at the most, before it will be forced to withdraw because of the public pressure on it," the al Qaeda document says. "If its forces remain after these blows, the victory of the Socialist Party will be almost guaranteed -- and the withdrawal of Spanish forces will be on its campaign manifesto." That prediction came to fruition in elections Sunday, with the Socialists unseating the Popular Party three days after near-simultaneous bombings of four trains killed 200 and shocked the nation. Ninety percent of Spaniards had opposed Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar's staunch support for the U.S.-led war against Iraq, and some have blamed his government's policies for the train bombings. Prime Minister-elect Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Monday he wants the 1,300 Spanish troops in Iraq to return home by June 30 if the United Nations "doesn't take control of Iraq." "I think Spain's participation in the war has been a total error," he said. (Full story) Meanwhile, one of the five men arrested in connection with the bombings has links to the plotters of an al Qaeda-linked bombing in Casablanca last year, CNN has learned. The May 2003 suicide attacks in Casablanca killed nearly three dozen people. Spanish authorities have arrested three Moroccans and two Indians in connection with the Madrid bombings. One of the men, Jamal Zougam, 30, has ties to two brothers who have been charged in connection with the Casablanca bomb plot, according to a Moroccan government official. Zougam is also believed to be a follower of Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, the alleged ringleader of al Qaeda in Spain, according to a Spanish court document. All five are being held incommunicado under Spain's anti-terrorism law, which requires they be charged within five days of their detention. Authorities said investigators tracked the men through a cellular telephone and a pre-paid telephone card discovered in a backpack containing explosives found shortly after Thursday's attacks. Helping the investigation is a videotape in which a man claiming to be a military spokesman for al Qaeda in Europe says the terrorist network was behind the bombings. In the United States, Asa Hutchinson, the undersecretary for the Department of Homeland Security, said they thought the Madrid bombings had the fingerprints of al Qaeda. "We do know that there is a connection to al Qaeda. We have verified