Madrid bombings 11 march 2004

[Seashell]

I have mixed feelings at the sentences handed out to the culprits involved, it seems they didnt get the leader who was responsible for the atrocity.
I wonder who else here feels same.

[daffle]

I have mixed feelings at the sentences handed out to the culprits involved, it seems they didnt get the leader who was responsible for the atrocity.
I wonder who else here feels same.

Seashell, it's not at all clear that they didn't know who the mastermind was. According to the London Times:

"But the man accused of organising the attacks, Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed, also known as "Mohammed the Egyptian", was acquitted on all charges along with six other defendants."

European governments all have different standards of evidence to convict people. For example, a young Islamist radical in the Netherlands convinced the judges that he had every intention of killing Dutch people with explosives, however they acquitted him because they didn't think he had enough expertise to carry out his plans. My guess is that he was invited shortly after his acquittal to Pakistan to wherever they trained Richard Reid, the shoe bomber.