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"MH17 - Call for Justice", Bonanza Media, 17-07-2019 (mp4)

[2] - EFE 18.03.2018 : Se suicida el piloto al que Rusia acusó de derribar el vuelo de Malaysia Airlines en 2014.

[3] 

Vuelo MH17 : Testigo revela identidad del piloto que derribó el avión de pasajeros por Dmitry Steshin, Nicholas Varsegov y Vladimir Sungorkin, Red Voltaire, Moscú, 27-12-2014 (PDF)

[4] 

Incidente del golfo de Tonkín (Wikipedia & Referencias : 1) Pentagon Papers. 2) La Agencia de Seguridad Nacional, NSA, reconoce que el gobierno mintió en incidente del golfo de Tonkín que sirvió para iniciar la agresión USA a Vietnam. 3) La tradición estadounidense de los autoataques : De Tonkin al 11-S. 4) Documentos desclasificados por la NSA en 2005. 5) NSA : "No ocurrió ningún ataque" en el Golfo de Tonkin) (PDF)

El falso incidente del golfo de Tonkín. La excusa yanqui para el genocidio de Vietnam, De Todo Un Poco, 04-09-2013 (mp4)

A principios de agosto de 1964, el gobierno de los Estados Unidos, presidido por Lyndon B Johnson, inventó el conocido como "incidente del golfo de Tonkín", para implicar a la opinión pública estadounidense en la, hasta entonces encubierta, guerra de Vietnam. Según la historia reproducida por el aparato gubernamental, varios botes vietnamitas habrían abierto fuego contra un destructor norteamericano, anclado en las costas de Vietnam. Una historia, totalmente falsa, como se demostraría años más tarde al desclasificar los archivos de la National Security Agency, en los que se reconocía que el incidente del golfo de Tonkín fue una historia inventada. A pesar de ello, fue utilizada vilmente para justificar la declaración del golfo de Tonkín, que sirvió para expandir la guerra de invasión de Estados Unidos en el sureste asiático. Un proyecto al que se había negado Kennedy, asesinado apenas 8 meses antes de la declaración formal de guerra a Vietnam, firmada por su predecesor L.B. Johnson. El incidente del golfo de Tonkín es uno de los ejemplos más palpables de operaciones de falsa bandera ideadas por los gobiernos, con el propósito de manipular a la opinión pública en su favor.

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Cuidado : Incidentes, pretextos y trampas, Periódico Revolución, 11-01-2017
Marxismo como ciencia—Refutar a Karl Popper, nodo50.org (PDF)

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Exclusiva de RT : Primer reportaje del mundo desde el lugar de accidente del Boeing 777 en Ucrania, RT en Español, 17-07-2014 (mp4)

Exclusiva mundial de RT Primer reportaje desde el lugar de accidente del Boeing 777 en Ucrania — RT, zona sur, 18-07-2014 (mp4)

Vuelo MH17. Una realidad hecha pedazos - Documental, RT en Español, 21-01-2015 (mp4)

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MH17 Passenger Manifest (PDF)

[7] 

"MH17 - Call for Justice", Bonanza Media, 17-07-2019 (mp4)

Bonanza media investigative team of independent journalists take exclusive interviews with one of the suspects of downing the MH17, Malaysian prime minister ; colonel that collected black boxes and much more. Eye opening testimonies from witnesses and irrefutable evidence from experts. Exclusive footage shot in Malaysia, The Netherlands and at the crash area in Ukraine.

[8] Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Accuses US and Allies of MH17 Fabrication, Violation of Rule of Law

By John Helmer (@bears_with), Moscow, Tuesday, June 4th, 2019

The Malaysian Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohamad, has announced in a new documentary film on the shooting-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 that the claim the Russians were responsible was invented from the start. He emphasized that Malaysian officials have been stopped from reviewing the evidence.

Forty-three Malaysian nationals were among the 298 passengers and crew who were killed on board the aircraft on July 17, 2014. One of them was Puan Sri Siti Amirah, 83, step-grandmother of Najib Razak, who was the Malaysian prime minister when the aircraft was struck by a ground-fired missile.

Speaking at his office on May 26, Mahathir said : “They never allowed us to be involved from the very beginning. This is unfair and unusual. So we can see they are not really looking at the causes of the crash and who was responsible. But already they have decided it must be Russia. So we cannot accept that kind of attitude. We are interested in the rule of law, in justice for everyone irrespective of who is involved. We have to know who actually fired the missile, and only then can we accept the report as the complete truth”.

By “they”, the Malaysian prime minister was accusing the Dutch and Australian governments, as well as the US, of faking the narrative that Russian forces under Moscow’s command fired the fatal missile.

That allegation was published as the justification for the sanctions which the US and the European Union imposed on July 29, 2014. These measures were the first to commence economic and trade warfare against Russian banks and the Russian ship-building sector.

Late last year the Russian Defence Ministry provided evidence that the missile which had exploded to destroy the Malaysian passenger jet had been manufactured in a Russian plant in 1986, and then shipping to the Ukraine. Its last recorded location was at a Ukrainian military base ; for more details, read this.

Mahathir is not the first senior Malaysian official to accuse the US, Dutch and Australians of lying about the MH17 crash.

In Washington, DC, time on the day of the crash, President Barack Obama telephoned Prime Minister Najib in Kuala Lumpur ; the US and Malaysian records of their conversation indicate Obama did not make any claim about Russian responsibility. After the Obama call, Najib was more explicit in not assigning culpability. “We will find out what happened to the plane”, Najib said at a press conference on July 18. “If it was indeed shot down, we will press for the culprit to be brought to book. The Ukraine government believes the plane was shot down. However, at this stage, Malaysia has yet to identify the cause of the tragedy. If it transpires that the plane was indeed shot down, we insist that the perpetrators must swiftly be brought to justice. Emergency operations centres have been established. In the last few hours, Malaysian officials have been in constant contact with their counterparts in Ukraine and elsewhere”.

Najib told the press he had spoken to the Dutch prime minister and the Ukrainian president ; he did not reveal the call from Obama.

Prime Minister Najib (centre) at press conference on July 18, 2014. Source : https://says.com/my/news/what-are-world-leaders-saying-about-mh17

An important detail in Najib’s statement was that the Malaysian Government and Malaysia Airlines had received confirmation from international aviation authorities that the Ukrainian airspace through which MH17 was flying when it was attacked was “not subject to restrictions”. The failure of the government in Ukraine to close the airspace above the fighting in eastern Ukraine is now the target of a negligence lawsuit at the European Court of Human Rights by families of the dead passengers ; read more.

Max vander Werff and Yana Yerlashova filmed their interview with Mahathir on May 26. This week they released an excerpt of the interview in a preview of their film, “MH 17 – Five Years On” :

Exclusive interview PM Mahathir 26.05.2019, Sneak Preview, Bonanza Media, 04-06-2019 (mp4)

In May they created Bonanza Media TV Chanel, a start-up platform for independent journalists. Their MH17 documentary is the first to air on the platform. The full film will be broadcast next month.

Vander Werff is the leading independent investigator of MH17’s destruction over eastern Ukraine ; he is Dutch. Yana Yerlashova is a Russian documentary film-maker ; she formerly worked with RT, the Russian media organization equivalent to the BBC and Voice of America state broadcasters.

Left : Max vander Werff ; right, Yana Verlashova.

In this clip, they explain why Verlashova left RT, the Russian state media network, in order to make independent documentary films. The new film, “MH17 – Five Years On”, has been funded by a worldwide subscription through Kickstarter. Attempts by the BBC and by Dutch bloggers supporting their government to discredit Vander Werff and Yerlashova can be followed here. “I am unbiased and not stupid”, the pro-government Dutch blogger Marcel van den Berg claims on his website.

On March 26, the Australian and Dutch foreign ministers made a public appearance in Sydney. They said that earlier in the month they had held with Russian representatives “the first iteration of state responsibility talks between Australia, the Netherlands and Russia”. Disclosing no details of the negotiations, the Dutch minister Stefan Blok repeated the earlier “decision to hold Russia responsible in international law for its role in the downing of Flight MH17. Following this step we entered into contact with Russia”.

The two officials did not explain why Malaysia has been excluded from “state responsibility talks” although its losses in the crash are second only to the 193 Dutch nationals, and exceed the 28 Australian casualties.

Centre left, Dutch Foreign Minister Stefan Blok ; right, Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne. Source : https://www.nst.com.my/world/2019/03/473380/australia-netherlands-start-talks-russia-over-mh17-downing-dutch-minister

Dutch and Australian officials have met regularly to put pressure on the Malaysians not to break with their version of the MH17 crash. For more details, read this.

The Dutch-Australian talks led to Mahathir’s remarks recorded in the interview with vander Werff and Yerlashova on May 26.

Four days later, on May 30, Mahathir went public with his reaction to the Dutch and Australians. At a press conference in Tokyo, Bernama, the Malaysian state media agency, reported what the prime minister said. “You need strong evidence to show it was fired by the Russians”, Mahathir commented. “It could be by the rebels in Ukraine, it could be Ukrainian government because they too have the same missile … We don’t know why we are excluded from the examination but from the very beginning, we see too much politics in it and the idea was not to find out how this happened but seems to be concentrated on trying to pin it to the Russians. This is not a neutral kind of examination”.

The Murdoch media in Australia, cribbing from the Malaysian press coverage, added this editorial line : “Dr Mahathir is known to enjoy a good conspiracy theory and it’s not the first time his opinions have raised eyebrows”.

[9] The Obama Shoe-Banging Moment On The Ukraine Front - Dutch And Australian Troops Were Planning To Start War With Russia After MH17 Was Shot Down

By John Helmer, Moscow, Wednesday, June 15th, 2016

President Barack Obama (lead image, left) and his advisors (right) spent at least a week, and as much as three weeks, planning to send up to 9,000 combat troops into eastern Ukraine, on the border with Russia, following the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 two years ago. The scheme, which was to have involved Dutch and Australian army units, with German ground and US air support, plus NATO direction, has inadvertently leaked from the publication of a report this week by a former Australian Army captain.

The military plan, according to James Brown, now head of research at the US Studies Centre of the University of Sydney, “would have consumed the bulk of the Australian Army”. Captain Brown also claims “planning for these military options consumed Australia’s intelligence agencies. The National Security Committee of (the Australian ministerial) Cabinet met every day for more than three weeks, and staff and agencies produced a frenzied stream of briefings on Ukraine, Russia and the intentions of (President) Vladimir Putin”.

According to Dutch sources, the military plan of attack was aborted when Germany refused to participate directly, or allow its bases and airspace to be used. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced the Dutch were pulling their troops out of the plan on July 27. He said at the time : “Getting the military upper hand for an international mission in this area is, according to our conclusion, not realistic”. That was ten days after the MH17 crash. But Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and his cabinet continued, Brown and his sources reveal, to plan the operation with the US for another 10 days.

MH17 was shot down on July 17, 2014, killing 298 passengers and crew. Of the lives lost, 193 of them were Dutch ; 43 Malaysian ; and 27 Australian (plus 11 dual nationals or residents). From the first hours, the Malaysian government suspected elements of the Ukrainian military had been involved. Kuala Lumpur was reluctant to endorse the claims of the Ukrainian and US governments that Russia had been culpable, and that Russian-backed forces were directly to blame. That story can be read here.

The Dutch and Australian governments were, and continue to be, the most supportive of blame for Moscow. This was adopted as the official policy of the European Union (EU) states when they joined the US in introducing new sanctions against Russian oil companies and banks between July 16 and 31, 2014. For more details of the disagreements between political leaders on what had caused the shoot-down, read this.

Left : Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak with Rutte, The Hague, July 31, 2014 ; right : Najib with Putin, Sochi, May 21, 2016

Rutte and Abbott combined to pressure Prime Minister Najib to drop his public scepticism, and join the police and prosecutors group known as the Joint Investigation Team (JIT). Najib is the only one of the three to discuss with Russia its assessment of the causes of the MH17 crash.

James Brown

The report by Brown (pictured right) was cited in an Australian newspaper on Monday as an attack on ex-prime minister Abbott for “grand aspirations (which) could have exposed Australian troops to substantial danger in pursuit of lofty objectives misaligned with national interests”. Abbott lost his job when the MPs of his party combined to replace him with the current prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, on September 14, 2015. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko then appointed Abbott one of his “international advisors”.

In 2014, according to Brown, Abbott “calculated that the best way to encourage the United States to retain an active role in world affairs was for Australia to lead by example : as an ally encouraging, reassuring, and perhaps even occasionally shaming the US into taking action”. The full Brown report can be read here.

Brown reveals that “military planners worked up options for Abbott that involved deploying up to a brigade’s worth of troops to Eastern Ukraine, a formation of as many as 3,000 troops”. Another proposal, which he reports as coming from Abbott’s office, was “to commit uniformed Australian military logistics personnel to help the Ukrainians improve their own systems”.

Poroshenko (left) meets in Kiev with his international advisors (centre to right) : ex-Polish foreign minister, Radoslaw Sikorski ; Abbott ; and Melanne Verveer, a Ukrainian-American protégée of Hillary Clinton.

Brown, who favours special forces operations himself and the command of the Australian Army by former spetznaz officers, says “nearly 200 (special force troops) were eventually sent to Europe to support the MH17 recovery operations, staging from bases in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands to provide close support to investigators and backup for further crisis or contingency”. Less than four weeks later, according to Brown, one hundred of these men were moved to Iraq instead.

Australian troops in Iraq in August 2014 (Source : https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-28/rothwell-the-legal-case-for-iraq-intervention/5702584). No photograph or press report of Australian troops in Ukraine at the time has appeared.

Abbott himself told Australian state radio in February 2015 : “We did talk to the Dutch about what might have been done in those perilous circumstances, because certainly they were perilous circumstances. There was talk with the Dutch about a joint operation”. Abbott claimed this wasn’t his initiative. “This arose out of the most important and the most necessary discussions between the Dutch military and our own”.

This week’s report by Brown breaks news in identifying how large the Australian force was to have been. He does not report the Dutch, German and NATO planning which was going on at the same time. When asked, Brown declined to say whether he and his sources knew, or didn’t know, that Abbott was acting in concert with the others.

On July 25, 2014, the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reported that the 11th Airmobile Brigade (unit flash, below right, red) was being mobilized for action in eastern Ukraine. That’s 4,500 troops, and part of a division-sized German military force called Division Schnelle Kräfte (Rapid Forces Division – unit flash, silver) of about 9,000 men.

Source : https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/934246/defensie-stuurt-commando-s-naar-oekraine?utm_source=johnhelmer.net&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=/the-obama-shoe-banging-moment-on-the-ukraine-front-dutch-and-australian-troops-were-planning-to-start-war-with-russia-after-mh17-was-shot-down/

The cover story, according to the Telegraaf, was “to ensure the 23 Dutch crash investigators and 40 unarmed military police officers can do their job”. The real objective, according to one of Telegraaf’s sources, was : “if our commandos are there, they should certainly try to arrest those responsible. (Russian) Colonel Igor the Terrible Girkin (Strelkov) and his associates”. For background on Girkin’s role in Russian plans and operations in eastern Ukraine, read this.

The Dutch newspaper didn’t reveal the Dutch troops would be deployed alongside the 3,000-man Australian force, and that the German command of Division Schnelle Kräfte would also be involved. Telegraaf claimed the operation was “not expected at the NATO headquarters in Brussels”, although it had been presented to “the authorities in Kiev before the green light (was given) and cooperation promised”.

Two days later, on July 27, the BBC reported Dutch Prime Minister Rutte as calling off the operation. “Getting the military upper-hand for an international mission in this area is, according to our conclusion, not realistic“, he said, conceding it would be “such a provocation to the separatists that it could destabilise the situation”. With almost two years in retrospect, Brown concludes, without mentioning the Dutch, Germans, or other NATO forces, “the potential for harm to Australian troops was all too real. The logic of deploying large numbers of troops into an active war zone alongside the border of a major global military power was entirely shaky”.

Yevgeny Krutikov

Russian analysts in Moscow do not regard the Australian and Dutch governments as capable of planning military action without prior encouragement by the US. The Russians did not realize at the time, they now say, that the US may have been planning a military operation in the wake of the MH17 crash. Yevgeny Krutikov (right), military analyst for Versiya and Vzglyad, recalls there were reports in the press “about the organization of protection for the crash site. Then Abbott offered to send about 1,000 Australian troops to cordon off the crash site. By definition, that was unrealizable stupidity”.

“The number of 9,000 is not real. For the protection of the aircraft wreckage that had fallen, the requirement is less than a militia company. The area was open fields where (the locals) had planted potatoes and sunflowers. There was no talk about the arrival of armed forces from NATO. Air support was even more unreal. By this time, Ukraine has already lost all of its aircraft, and ‘cooperation’ was not technically feasible”.

The omissions in the Dutch and now the Australian report suggest the close coordination of US and EU officials on introducing new sanctions against Russia immediately after the MH17 crash was not matched by coordination of any kind between the Obama Administration, the US command of NATO, the Dutch, Germans and Australians. To Russian observers this is not credible. Preposterous, they believe, is that the Dutch and the Australian governments, at the urging of the White House, went as close as they did to war on the Russian frontier.

Obama and Abbott meet in Beijing, November 10, 2014. Obama said : “Obviously, the men and women of the Australian armed forces have terrific capabilities and on many occasions have made extraordinary sacrifice. So first and foremost, I want to thank [Abbott] for the security partnership that we have.” Source : https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/10/remarks-president-obama-and-prime-minister-abbott-australia-after-bilate

Brown declines to identify or corroborate his sources for the size of the Australian armed force intended for the Ukrainian operation. He was asked to explain “that the prime minister, his advisors, the National Security Committee of Cabinet meeting every day for three weeks, the Australian intelligence agencies, and the Australian military staffs failed to ask for US assessments, US policy guidance, US logistic and other support in the event of engagement between Australian and Russian forces, and US approval of the plans and proposals considered at the time. If the Australians did obtain the US responses, would you say the proposals you attribute to Mr Abbott had US backing, at least at the outset ?”

Brown refuses to answer. Was it possible for two prime ministers, the Australian and the Dutch, to start mobilizing for a combined Ukraine operation without US and NATO participation in the planning ? Brown won’t say.

Instead, he ends his report with an endorsement of Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize speech of 2009 : “There will be times”, Obama said then, “when nations –acting individually or in concert– will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified … For make no mistake : evil does exist in the world”.

Note : The original and only shoe-banging moment of international significance occurred on October 12, 1960, when Nikita Khrushchev, then First Secretary of the Communist Party Central Committee and chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers, reacted at the UN General Assembly to criticism by the head of the Philippines delegation. The record of whether Khrushchev banged or brandished his shoe is ambiguous.

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MH17 – Inadmissible Evidence For What Cannot Have Happened, By John Helmer, Moscow, September 16th, 2015 (PDF)

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MH17 – The Lie To End All Truths, And The New Evidence, By John Helmer, Moscow, September 17th, 2015 (PDF)

[12] 

Vuelo MH17 : Testigo revela identidad del piloto que derribó el avión de pasajeros por Dmitry Steshin, Nicholas Varsegov y Vladimir Sungorkin, Red Voltaire, Moscú, 27-12-2014 (PDF)

Testigo anónimo : "El Boeing malasio fue derribado por un Su-25 ucraniano", RT en Español, 23-12-2014 (mp4)

Hot news ! Malaysian Boeing MH17 destroyed Ukrainian Su-25 pilot Captain Voloshin, Spree Qattus, 23-12-2014 (mp4)

Impactantes imágenes : Difunden las primeras imágenes tras la caída del MH17 en Ucrania, RT en Español, 16-11-2014 (mp4)

Primeras imágenas desde el lugar del siniestro del Boeing de Malaysia Airlines, RT en Español, 17-07-2014 (mp4)

Misterios sin resolver del vuelo MH17 - Documental, RT en Español, 24-10-2014 (mp4)

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Los orígenes del totalitarismo

Hannah Arendt

El estudio del totalitarismo necesita bucear en sus orígenes, que para Hannah Arendt son el racismo y el imperialismo

la haine 08-01-2018

Los totalitarismos han constituido un fenómeno que no se podrá soslayar siempre que se quiera hacer una caracterización de nuestro siglo XX. El libro fue escrito por el convencimiento de que sería posible descubrir los mecanismos ocultos mediante los cuales los sistemas políticos se tornan inútiles para los fines humanos.

Uno de ellos, que se presentaba como pequeño y carente de importancia políticamente, el antisemitismo, llegó a convertirse en el agente catalizador del movimiento nazi y, a través de él, de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y las genocidas « cámaras de la muerte ». Otro, la grotesca disparidad entre causa y efecto que introdujo la época del imperialismo, cuando las condiciones económicas determinaron en unas pocas décadas una profunda transformación de las condiciones políticas en todo el mundo. Otro, el racismo inherente a las sociedades occidentales y a los propios judíos, perseguidos antes por los nazis y ahora persecutores de palestinos y árabes en general.

Uno de los puntos centrales de Hannah Arendt –que por ejemplo el mainstream liberal-conservador siempre ha tenido problemas en asimilar– es que éste no era una amenaza externa (que vino de la nada), sino un producto del desarrollo interno de las sociedades occidentales (sobre todo del imperialismo y colonialismo).

Mirando hoy a los principales defensores de Occidente –Trump, Kaczynski, Orban, Netanyahu et al.–, queda claro que : 1) su mayor enemigo hoy –si ya aceptamos a pensar en estos términos– no es externo (el Islam radical), sino interno (ellos mismos) ; 2) la principal arma de ellos en esta misión –el odio– será uno por el que finalmente caerán o más bien por el que caeremos todos (Arendt : El racismo puede llevar a la ruina al mundo occidental, si no a toda la civilización humana ..., p. 241) ; 3) y que la barbarie sembrada en nombre de su defensa y/o diseminación –la destrucción de países enteros (Afganistán, Iraq, Libia, ¿Siria ?) o el sadismo israelí hacia los palestinos– hace toda la idea del Occidente simplemente insalvable (... si no lo hizo ya hace mucho tiempo). (Tres despachos sobre defensores de Occidente)

Esta edición añade a la primera, que logró consideración de verdadero clásico en el tema, las revisiones y ampliaciones de la « nueva edición » de 1966 y los prefacios a los de Harvest de 1968.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) fue una filósofa alemana de origen judío, se doctoró en filosofía en la Universidad de Heidelberg. Emigrada a EEUU, dio clases en las universidades de California, Chicago, Columbia y Princeton. De 1944 a 1946 fue directora de investigaciones para la Conferencia sobre las Relaciones Judías, y, de 1949 a 1952, de la Reconstrucción Cultural Judía. Su obra, que ha marcado el pensamiento social y político liberal de la segunda mitad del siglo, incluye, entre otros, ’Los orígenes del totalitarismo’, ’La condición humana’ y ’La vida del espíritu’.

Leer libro completo.

* Trabajo de Claudia Galindo Lara para adentrarse en el estudio de Hannah Arendt, pensadora imprescindible en el análisis del papel de la política en el siglo XX : Hannah Arendt La recuperación de la dignidad de la Política :

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[14] Cómo fue que el terrorismo del Estado Islámico alcanzó a España

Por Declan Walsh, Raphael Minder, Eric Schmitt y Rukmini Callimachi, NYT 21-08-2017

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Algunos de los jóvenes involucrados en los ataques de Barcelona y Cambrils todavía eran adolescentes y los investigadores creen que llevaban una doble vida ; a lo largo de un año planearon los atentados en la residencia de Alcanar.

Fue un recordatorio del reto que enfrenta Cataluña como región que se ha vuelto un foco cada vez mayor del extremismo islamista.

En esa ciudad residen un cuarto de los dos millones de musulmanes que viven en España lo que ha atraído cada vez más migrantes musulmanes desde Marruecos, Algeria y el sudeste asiático. Sin embargo, han tenido problemas para integrarse y a muchos les han atraído las mezquitas salafistas (rama ultraconservadora del sunismo) que surgieron en pueblos y ciudades pequeñas de la zona.

En un cable diplomático de 2007, por ejemplo, funcionarios del Departamento de Estado alertaron que el área se había vuelto un “imán para reclutadores terroristas” debido a la alta población de inmigrantes musulmanes masculinos, no casados y desafectos :

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“Hay algo de historia ahí”, dijo Lorenzo Vidino, director del Programa sobre Extremismo de la Universidad de Washington y autor de un estudio sobre el salafismo en Cataluña. “Si te fijas en un mapa, el poblado más cercano a Cambrils es Salou. La distancia puede recorrerse a pié. Y Salou es donde Mohamed Atta tuvo su última reunión en Europa antes del 11 de septiembre”, dijo. Atta era el piloto del primer avión que se estrelló contra el World Trade Center de Nueva York y se cree que se reunió con alguien de Al Qaeda en Salou antes del atentado de 2001 :

Chapter 3. A Case Study : Catalonia (PDF)

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España tiene un atractivo simbólico para los islamistas debido a su historia de un califato y la presencia musulmana entre los siglos VIII y XV en Al-Ándalus ; en sitios web de extremistas hay referencias a los deseos de regresar a ese territorio musulmán medieval.

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Thierry Meyssan

Thierry Meyssan Intelectual francés, presidente-fundador de la Red Voltaire y de la conferencia Axis for Peace. Sus análisis sobre política exterior se publican en la prensa árabe, latinoamericana y rusa. Última obra publicada en español : De la impostura del 11 de septiembre a Donald Trump. Ante nuestros ojos la gran farsa de las "primaveras árabes" (2017).

[16] « La verdad sobre el imán de ‎Ripoll » 1- « El cerebro de la masacre de Las Ramblas fue confidente del CNI hasta el día del ‎atentado » ; 2- « El CNI escuchaba los móviles de los asesinos de Las ‎Ramblas cinco días antes de la matanza » ; 3- « El CNI fichó a Es Satty ‎en 2014 a cambio de no ser deportado y le ayudó a ser imán en Ripoll » ; 4- « El CNI quiso poner al imán en Barcelona pero el jefe ‎local se negó a que lo controlara Madrid », Carlos ‎Enrique Bayo, Público, 15, 16, 17 y 18 de julio de 2019.

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Daniele Ganser

Daniele Ganser Historiador suizo, especialista en relaciones internacionales contemporáneas. Sus trabajos acerca de las redes Gladio en Europa y de los ejércitos secretos de la OTAN ligados a los neonazis y otros movimientos fascistas le valieron un gran reconocimiento académico. Se dedica a la enseñanza en la universidad de Basilea, Suiza.