Episode #85: Fernando Reinares on "Madrid 3/11 Bombings and the Future of Terrorism in Europe"

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🗓️ 24 July 2014

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Last week, Professor Fernando Reinares, a senior analyst on International Terrorism at the Elcano Royal Institute, delivered a talk on his new book, entitled in English, “Kill Them! Who was Behind 3/11 and Why Spain was Targeted.” The talk covered the March 11, 2004 Madrid bombings, the rise and shape of jihadist networks in Spain, and the evolution of terrorism in Western Europe. In his speech, Reinares provides evidence that the decision to attack Spain was made not in response to the Iraq War, but instead in December 2001 in Pakistan by Moroccan Amer Azizi – previously a charismatic member of Al Qaeda’s Spanish Abu Dahdah cell – and that the Madrid bombing network began its formation in March 2002, more than one year before the start of the Iraq war. He highlights that like much of the West, today Spain battles the challenge of jihadist radicalization and recruitment networks that are sending fighters to join the wars in Syria and elsewhere.

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0:27.2	and the aftermath.
0:29.8	You know, Alcada is just propaganda.
0:35.8	They reach nothing.
0:37.6	They talk a lot, but they reach nothing.
0:41.3	We might say, well, they have different starter use and tactics.
0:46.0	They don't speak about the caliphate, they speak about Emirates and we might discuss about
0:52.8	the bad.
0:53.8	But to them is too much talk, too little, too little accomplishments.
0:58.8	Whereas the Islamic State, you see these guys, they are now even reestablished in the caliphate,
1:04.4	our ultimate goal.
1:07.5	So this is caliphanizing people on an individual base and not just on other types of motivation,
1:16.0	but also in tradition, this very powerful motivation based on rational expectations, rational
1:21.4	calculus, which adds to the other more salient motivations, among individual jihadists in
1:31.5	Europe, which is identity search.
1:36.0	That was Professor Fernando Ranara as you just heard, a senior analyst on international
1:40.2	terrorism at the Elcano Royal Institute in Madrid.
1:44.6	Last week, Professor Ranara spoke about his new book entitled in English, Kill Them,
1:49.8	Who Was Behind 3-Eleven, and Why Spain Was Targeted.
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