Madrid Train bombers had been planning to hit the US.

This is the breaking story according to my internet homepage.


MADRID (Reuters) - The Madrid train bombers had detailed plans of New York's Grand Central Station, indicating they also planned to attack there, a Spanish newspaper reported Wednesday. (SNIP)



The disk was confiscated within two weeks of the attacks on March 11, 2004, that killed 191 people in Madrid, but Spanish investigators did not warn the FBI and the CIA until December when the full scope of the technical information became clear, El Mundo said. (SNIP)



The disk was found in the home of a man arrested on suspicion of playing a role in the attacks that rocked Spain three days before a general election, El Mundo said.


WHY the heck would they just now talk about this? BUSHCO must really be desperate to get the sheep scared again to drum up new support. Just makes me sick...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/02/national/main677527.shtml

A crude sketch of Grand Central Terminal was found at the home of a suspect in the Madrid train bombings, but was not considered cause for alarm, New York City's police commissioner said Wednesday.

The one-page, hand-drawn document "was a very basic schematic," Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. "It's not an operational plan. It's not something that would indicate an immediate threat."

The newspaper El Mundo in Spain reported that the drawing and other data were on a computer disk seized about two weeks after the train bombings in Madrid that killed 191 people on March 11, 2004.

Spanish police turned the disk over to the FBI and CIA in December. Kelly said the material was also shared with the New York Police Department's counterterrorism division and city transit officials, who concluded the sketch depicted Grand Central.

But CBS News Correspondent Sheila MacVicar reported one Spanish source said that neither Spanish authorities or U.S. officials put much credence in the sketch, saying it doesn't look very much like Grand Central Terminal.