Friday, February 25, 2005

NO VIRGINS FOR HIM:
A Moroccan suspected of plotting to blow up Spain's High Court has been found hanged in his prison cell, the prison service says.

Mustafa Zanibar, 32, was already serving a 29-year prison term for murder when Judge Baltasar Garzon accused him of forming part of a militant Islamist group planning to blow up high-profile buildings in Madrid including Real Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu soccer stadium.

The "Martyrs for Morocco" plot to blow up the High Court with a truck bomb was discovered late last year and several arrests followed, but some of the suspects were already in jail for other offences.

Zanibar, who had been isolated since Garzon's accusation, was found hanged in the shower at a prison in Zaragoza, a spokeswoman for the prison service said.

Note the contradition: he was found hanged in his prison cell -first paragraph- and in the shower -fourth-. But what matters is that the guy was one of the guys who openly celebrated the 'success' of the March 11 bomb attacks in prison: he bought coffee for all inmates in his ward. Among them, several members of ETA, the Basque terrorist group.