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Four suspected ‘Anonymous’ hackers busted in Madrid and Málaga
The 9 11 meeting on Spanish soil
The coordinators of the 9/11 terrorist attacks against the United States held last-minute preparations in Spain, according to classified documents made available by WikiLeaks. Ramzi bin al Shinbh, a prisoner in Guant namo, met with Mohammed Atta, the leader of the suicide pilots, in the Catalan town of Reus in July 2001.
Eight years on suicide watch
The Bush administration kept relations under constant pressure
In classified documents released by WikiLeaks last year, the US ambassador to Madrid under the Bush administration wrote that Spain's foreign affairs minister was "selfish" and "unpredictable." Eduardo Aguirre, ambassador between 2005 and 2009, could now add that Miguel ngel Moratinos is also not one to hold a grudge: in his first interview since he was removed from his post as foreign minister, he said that Aguirre, "despite everything he later wrote, was a good ambassador."
US pressures Madrid to keep tabs for life on Al Qaeda’s Spanish chief
Iran blocks access to EL PAÍS website after combative embassy cable
Iranian authorities have blocked access to the EL PA S website following the publication of a WikiLeaks cable in which it is stated that the head of the Revolutionary Guard, Ali Jafari, slapped Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Access to other publications carrying the news has also been blocked, while local media have not reported the cable, the content of which has been neither confirmed nor denied by official sources.
Spain asked CIA about barring Libyan chemicals deal
Ministry reopened bid process for a California solar company to compete
Spain asked US to push against EU ban on GMO corn
Spain was the United States' biggest European Union ally when it came to pushing for allowing US genetically modified (GMO) food industries to continue developing their markets within the continent, US Embassy cables show. The US government found itself in a hard battle to defeat the French position in favor of an outright ban on agricultural biotechnology for all EU member states.
I get death threats constantly. So do my lawyer and my children
Julian Assange has a disturbing anecdote from the time he spent in Wandsworth prison. One day, as he was tucking into a lunchtime dish of rice and beans, he noticed that something snapped in his mouth. A metallic object he had chewed on cracked one of his teeth in two. "I don't know if it had been placed there deliberately or if it was a simple accident," he says.
Spain favored Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara
Ever since the Socialists came to power in 2004, they made a point of maintaining a public stance with regard to the Western Sahara conflict that appeared to be equidistant. Yet behind the scenes, the government supported and even offered to advise Rabat on how best to craft its plan for Sahrawi autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty.
Weighing up the leaks
Ex-US ambassador to Spain laments embassy cables coverage
Portugal bank offered to spy in Iran for US ·
Political and financial circles in Portugal reacted strongly to revelations that the country's largest private bank, Banco Comercial Portugu s (better known as Millennium BCP), attempted to reach a secret deal with the US government that would allow it to conduct business in Iran in exchange for confidential information about financial transactions by account holders there.
Portuguese prime minister and foreign policy chief okayed rendition flights
US pressed government and business to stop all its dealings with Iran
Chávez and drugs finance Nicaragua, say US dispatches
Worried Washington had eyes on Garzón
The American Embassy in Madrid has been keeping a close eye on the High Court, and in particular on the judges and attorneys involved in US-related issues. Secret documents leaked by Wikileaks show that one of the magistrates under closest surveillance was Baltasar Garz n, above all because of the possibility he might open legal proceedings against US officials for the torture of prisoners at the Guant namo detention center.