Unexpected comedy amidst tragedy. Islamoterrorist learns from none other than the pope. Lying runs in the christoislamic family, after all.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070215/2/12fsi.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Tuesday February 27, 08:09 AM
<b>Suspect denies planning Madrid attacks</b>
An Egyptian accused of the Madrid train bombings denied admitting he planned the attack and said a bugged conversation in which he apparently called the bombers "friends" had been misunderstood.
Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed, 35, was arrested in Milan after Italian police recorded telephone conversations in which authorities believe he took credit for plotting attacks on March 11, 2004 which killed 191 people in the Spanish capital.
Ahmed, <b>known as 'Mohamed the Egyptian'</b>, denied in a Madrid court that the voice on the recording was his and said another taped conversation had been misunderstood.
"I was just commenting on news I saw on television. I didn't mean anything more but that I had no relationship with these terrorist acts," he said, speaking in Arabic via a Spanish interpreter.
In a transcript of the wiretapped conversation, Ahmed apparently referred to the bombers as "friends" and said "now they're all in paradise", before warning his interlocutor not to mention the matter over the telephone.
<b>Ahmed insisted he had been misunderstood.
"It's like when the pope, who is a highly educated man, spoke about Muslims and Islam and there were protests in the Islamic world and he said 'I didn't mean any harm, I was just commenting on history'," he said.</b> <!--emo&:roll--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ROTFL.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ROTFL.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Last September, Pope Benedict made a speech quoting a Byzantine emperor who said Islam was violent and irrational. His comments sparked angry demonstrations around the world and he later said he was sorry Muslims had been offended by the quote.
(They have only the pope to blame.
Islamoterrorist thinks: 'if the pope can get away with it, why can't I?')
Ahmed is one of four men prosecutors believe masterminded the commuter train bombings, the deadliest al-Qaeda inspired attack in Europe. He denies involvement in the attack, which was followed by the suicide of seven suspected bombers several weeks later when they blew themselves up during a police siege.
The wiretaps were also presented as evidence to an Italian court last year, which convicted Ahmed of belonging to a terrorist organisation.
One transcript used in the Milan trial and seen by Reuters, has a man's voice saying: "The attack in Madrid was my plan and those that died martyrs were my dearest friends."
"Nowhere in the recording did I hear me say 'the attack was my plan' ... That's not my voice," Ahmed told the Madrid court, criticising the tape's sound quality and translations.
Ahmed is on trial with another 19 Arab men and nine Spaniards for crimes ranging from terrorist murder to collaborating with a terrorist group.
Later this week, a main Spanish suspect, Jose Emilio Suarez Trashorras, will take the stand for the first time. He is accused of stealing dynamite from mines and selling it to the bombers.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Am impressed. Papal legacy to humanity is increasing: nepotism, simony and many crimes even <i>named</i> for the pontiffs who first invented-and-committed them.
So is this technique going to be called The Ratzinger?
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070215/2/12fsi.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Tuesday February 27, 08:09 AM
<b>Suspect denies planning Madrid attacks</b>
An Egyptian accused of the Madrid train bombings denied admitting he planned the attack and said a bugged conversation in which he apparently called the bombers "friends" had been misunderstood.
Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed, 35, was arrested in Milan after Italian police recorded telephone conversations in which authorities believe he took credit for plotting attacks on March 11, 2004 which killed 191 people in the Spanish capital.
Ahmed, <b>known as 'Mohamed the Egyptian'</b>, denied in a Madrid court that the voice on the recording was his and said another taped conversation had been misunderstood.
"I was just commenting on news I saw on television. I didn't mean anything more but that I had no relationship with these terrorist acts," he said, speaking in Arabic via a Spanish interpreter.
In a transcript of the wiretapped conversation, Ahmed apparently referred to the bombers as "friends" and said "now they're all in paradise", before warning his interlocutor not to mention the matter over the telephone.
<b>Ahmed insisted he had been misunderstood.
"It's like when the pope, who is a highly educated man, spoke about Muslims and Islam and there were protests in the Islamic world and he said 'I didn't mean any harm, I was just commenting on history'," he said.</b> <!--emo&:roll--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ROTFL.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ROTFL.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Last September, Pope Benedict made a speech quoting a Byzantine emperor who said Islam was violent and irrational. His comments sparked angry demonstrations around the world and he later said he was sorry Muslims had been offended by the quote.
(They have only the pope to blame.
Islamoterrorist thinks: 'if the pope can get away with it, why can't I?')
Ahmed is one of four men prosecutors believe masterminded the commuter train bombings, the deadliest al-Qaeda inspired attack in Europe. He denies involvement in the attack, which was followed by the suicide of seven suspected bombers several weeks later when they blew themselves up during a police siege.
The wiretaps were also presented as evidence to an Italian court last year, which convicted Ahmed of belonging to a terrorist organisation.
One transcript used in the Milan trial and seen by Reuters, has a man's voice saying: "The attack in Madrid was my plan and those that died martyrs were my dearest friends."
"Nowhere in the recording did I hear me say 'the attack was my plan' ... That's not my voice," Ahmed told the Madrid court, criticising the tape's sound quality and translations.
Ahmed is on trial with another 19 Arab men and nine Spaniards for crimes ranging from terrorist murder to collaborating with a terrorist group.
Later this week, a main Spanish suspect, Jose Emilio Suarez Trashorras, will take the stand for the first time. He is accused of stealing dynamite from mines and selling it to the bombers.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Am impressed. Papal legacy to humanity is increasing: nepotism, simony and many crimes even <i>named</i> for the pontiffs who first invented-and-committed them.
So is this technique going to be called The Ratzinger?