The Spanish connection to 9-11

Edward Jay Epstein discusses the investigation by Spanish judge Baltazar Garzon into the activities of Mohammad Atta and Ramzi Binalshibh with collaborators in Spain including Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas who was convicted for participating in the conspiracy.

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In an interview, Mr. Garzon explained to me through an interpreter that the support of the Spanish cell began in the early days of the plot and continued up until the attack. He described evidence that ranged from video tapes that Spanish police had confiscated from the home of one of the Spanish conspirators, which methodically surveyed the twin towers of the World Trade Center from five different angles in the late 1990s, to a phone call intercepted by Spanish intelligence in August 2001 (at a time when the hijackers were buying tickets on the planes they planned to commandeer), in which an operative in London informed Yarkas that associates in "classes" had now "entered the aviation field," and were beheading "the bird." After drawing a diagram for me on a blackboard of how the Spanish cell connected to Atta's and Binalshibh's recruiters in Germany, he said it was "supporting the operation at every level."

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There is much more in this interesting story and it becomes clear that Garzon believes that Binalshibh lied in his description of events to the CIA. It also calls into question some of the conclusions of the 9-11 Commission report.