Reuters reports that the FBI has established the clearest link yet between the March 11 Madrid train bombings and the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States:
The FBI has told Spanish investigators that one of three men believed to have planned the Sept. 11 attacks from Spain in the summer of 2001 also gave the order to carry out the Madrid blasts, the newspaper ABC reported.
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Investigators have long concluded that the Sept. 11 attacks were partially planned in Spain in July 2001.
Hijacker Mohammed Atta, believed to have piloted one of the airliners that crashed into New York's World Trade Center, visited Spain two months before the attacks and met two men.
One was Ramzi bin al-Shaibah, who is being held by U.S. authorities, while the other was unidentified.
ABC said investigators now believe that third man was the one who in December 2003 activated the Qaeda cell that carried out the March 11 attacks, which Spaniards call "our Sept. 11."
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