REMEMBER THE STRANGE BACKPACK linked to the March 11 terrorist attacks in Madrid I wrote about some time ago? Well, it gets even worse:

The autopsies on those killed in the Madrid train bombings of March 11, 2004, did not discover shrapnel of terrorist origin, according to a Libertad Digital [Spain Herald's parent publication] exclusive. PP spokesman Eduardo Zaplana will again demand that the March 11 investigating committee be reopened. He expressed his thanks for "the investigative work that some media outlets do by themselves, and they will keep asking questions. The administration is not cooperating because it has something to hide."

According to the official version, the backpack-bomb found in the Vallecas police station, which provided all the clues for the first arrests, is exactly the same as those that blew up in the trains. In its interior it had a mobile phone connected to a mass of explosive full of nails and screws, to serve as shrapnel.

However, Libertad Digital has confirmed that no terrorist shrapnel was found in the bodies, only fragments of the train cars themselves. The police reports included in the court's summary avoid mentioning the subject of the fragments in the bombs, without saying what evidence had been collected at each train and not mentioning the autopsies. Several sources told Libertad Digital that the autopsies show clearly that the March 11 bombs did not contain shrapnel because none was found in the bodies. This means that the backpack found in Vallecas was never on the train.

Like I said: one of the main pieces allowing people to cry "Aznar lied" may have been a red herring, a plant.

And Libertad Digital's editor is already getting death threats, the last one a veiled one by none other than a Spanish judge.

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