Terrorist attacks in Morocco

It was actually an order from the Government, so BA had no choice.

I think the UK government is very experienced in terrorism matters (what with the IRA and so on, and helping the US against al’Qaeda) so I trust them.

At any rate, they were right about an attack in Africa!

It´s alright. Just want to ask something to the British members. Do you think BA over reacted with the suspension of flights to Kenya?. I´d love to hear your comments about it.

I don’t know, I think my last point was a bit silly. Sorry about that.

Mongu, I missed the last point. What do you mean?. We condemn terrorism. We have condemned this attack.

The mugs killed more muslims than anyone else!

Maybe if Spain had prevented this atrocity they would have been condemned for it, just like the UK was condemned by Spain for shooting terrorists in Gibraltar.

These thugs don’t care about politics. They just want to attack targets in the west to set off a new wave of terrorism. They don’t care wheter these targets are American, Belgian or Spanish.

And Steve, Belgium has never been a friend of “terrorism”. Just because we think we could have solved the problems differently, doesn’t mean we don’t have the same goals as the “coalition”.

Originally posted by Jonesy
Keltic,

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Using this as a method to bring back up the issue of Aznar as a “bad guy” because he acted in isolation of public opinion in Spain seems a lot more to do with your agenda of taking potshots against someone you dont like than a comment on a possible threat to Spains security and more than a little opportunistic, on your part, to me I’m afraid.

It´s not oportunistic. I don´t appreciate this attack to give me excuses to tell “I told you so”. But things are happening as expected by some critics and I am not going to keep quiet because some may think it´s oportunistic. I don´t like cheap critizism, and I don´t normaly do it, specially against someone which I voted for him and has betrayed my spectations.

I think the point is that despite Bush’s war on terrorism it will never be stopped while people are prepared to die carrying out these attacks. It’s a self-perpetuating situation fanned by the myth of martyrdom.

Regards,

kev35

Keltic,

Skythe is right on so many levels here. By nature terrorism isnt a problem that lends itself to elimination at one stroke and Afghanistan was very much simply one battle (even if an important one) in a very long, low intensity, conflict. Look at the more local example of ETA and the Basques in your own country then scale that up.

In this attack the very fact that the Belgian place got caught in the blast shows very clearly that terrorists do not distinguish between friend and enemy when striking. You may wish to read a lot into the fact that a Spanish resteraunt got caught in the blast but I suspect few others will.

Using this as a method to bring back up the issue of Aznar as a “bad guy” because he acted in isolation of public opinion in Spain seems a lot more to do with your agenda of taking potshots against someone you dont like than a comment on a possible threat to Spains security and more than a little opportunistic, on your part, to me I’m afraid.

The Belgium embassy was hit because it was beside a jewish place (I don´t know which one). Of course our president is not directly responsible but these thugs, but the fact that a Spanish restaurant were included for the first time in the list with the regular american and Israeli interests is really suspicious. Of course I won´t let these to rule my life, and that the countries foreign policies can´t be ruled by them, but I wonder if supporting a war with almost the whole population is against, and making it´s citizens targets for his decission is really moral. Do we have to pay for the politicians mistakes?. I still think the task wasn´t done in Afganistan

This wasn’t just an attack against Spain or Spanish interests. The blasts damaged a Jewish community center and old cemetery, the Belgian consulate, the Spanish restaurant and a hotel. The fact that the Belgian consulate alone was apparently targeted by no less than 3 car bombs, seems to suggest this has very little to do with the war in Iraq, in which Belgium’s role was quite the opposite from Spain’s support.

Besides, this isn’t Anzar fault, it is the terrorists’ fault, and we needn’t go looking for excuses for them to commit such attacks. Whatever disagreements there are over Spain’s policies, you cannot let terrorists dictate the policy your government chooses to undertake. It is sheer stupidity to begin evaluating each government decision against whatever fundamentalist it might irritate, you’ve lost before you’ve even begun.

Being hit in an indirect attcack is not the same as being hit as a prime tarjet. In the case you mention, as in the case of the Kings Valley in Egypt the objective was international tourism in which unfortunately there were spaniards. But this time…..it was the first time when Spanish interests were directly and deliverately targeted. I don´t really see that Melilla and Ceuta had anything to do with it, but Alqaeda. And being after the war and a couple of days after the Saudi attack is not a coincidence. In any case, let´s hope Alqaeda be rooted from the earth as soon as possible.

Then?

Then nine years ago, when a couple of terrorists shooted some spanish tourists in Morocco, killing one of them, was our “fault” like now? any war nine years ago? any spanish support?

The goal for the moroccan integrists are Ceuta and Melilla, and probably the Canary Islands….

Re: Terrorist attacks in Morocco

Originally posted by keltic
. A suicide bomber blow himself up in a Spanish restaurant in Casablanca (with other attacks in the city), causing more than 40 people. Why didn´t we finish with Alqaeda before jumping on Iraq?.

Corrections…
……blew himself….
…causing more than 40 people killed…..