Spain

SPAIN

1474 – Juan Ponce de Leon was born to a noble family in Spain. In his teens he fought against the Moors in Grenada. (History Today. April 2013 UK).

20 Sept 1519 – Today in History. 20 Sept 2014. Richmond Times Dispatch. Portugese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and crew went from Spain on 5 ships to find spice islands.

Feb 1797 – Nelson, Spanish ships during the Battle of Capo St Vincent. (History Today. April 2013 UK).

1874-1931 – In Spain a large socialist movement emerged. The trade union tried to gain power. There was not an honest election from 1874-1931. Socialism was lead by Caballero a Madrid plasterer. (The momentous years. Priestly and Betts ©1961).

1898 – From 1898 after the loss of Spanish colonies, strikes, executions and assassinations increased. Socialism was a problem. (The momentous years ©1961 Priestly and Betts).

19 April 1919 – Rioting in Madrid. NZ Herald. Papers Past NZ.

Sept 1923 – Spain’s military regime was led by General Primo de Rivera who seized power. (M16 SIS Keith Jeffery ©crown 2010 UK).

1936-39 – Spanish civil war. July 1936, Francisco Franco, 3,000 American volunteers went to Spain to battle the Fascists. 450 men formed the Abraham Lincoln brigade, which suffered 120 dead and 175 wounded. Fighting continued for three years. Spring 1939, killing 100,000 troops and 5,000 foreign volunteers.  (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).

July 1936 – The Spanish civil war began. (Arms bazaar ©1977 Sampson).

18 July 1936-1939 – The Spanish civil war. The military coup of July 1936, led to open violence. Conflict erupted on 18 July 1936. (History Today. April 2013 UK)

19 April 1956 – 12 people died 20 injured Granada. Timeline of earthquakes.

1961 – Hugh Thomas. The Spanish civil war. New York Harper.

1973 – PM Carreo Blanco of Spain was assassinated.

1976 – The Spanish west. Time life books. New York. Worldcat database.

29 July 1979 – Madrid baggage area explosion, 1 killed and 9 wounded.

Dec 1980 – bar in Zarauz Spain attack 4 killed.

May 1981 – Banco central Barcelona 200 hostages 1 wounded.

1983 – BCCI acquired Spain’s Banco de Descuento and renames it Bank of Credit and Commerce SA Espanola.

12 April 1984 – A restaurant near US Air force base at Torrejon was bombed. 18 US servicemen were killed and 83 wounded.

2 August 1984 – Madras suitcase explosion 40 killed 19 wounded.

31 March 1985 – Vladimir Alexandrov, Soviet scientist nuclear winter conference Madrid Spain disappeared. (The anals of unsolved crime EJ Epstein ©2012 US)

6 Feb 1986 – Adm Christobal Colon Spain assassination MG Gren 2 killed.

May 1987 – Bob Trimbole died in Spain. (Mr Asia. Jim Diamond Shepherd ©2010 Australia).

May 1987 – Bob Trimbole died of a heart attack aged 55. His body returned to Sydney Australia. (Smack express. Clive Small ©2010 Australia).

26 Dec 1987 – A US servicemen’s bar was attacked by Catalan separatists. They bombed a Barcelona bar frequented by US servicemen, resulting in the death of one US citizen.

July 1996-2014 – Adolfo Suarez, PM of Spain, died on 23 March 2014 aged 81. He was appointed in July 1976 aged 43. (The Economist. March April 2014).

20 July 1996 – ETA bombing. A bomb exploded at Tarragona international airport in Reus Spain wounding 35 people including British and Irish tourists. The Basque fatherland and liberty ETA group was suspected.

1 Oct 1998 – Spanish Socialist leader, Basques, Joaquin Almunia.

20 Nov 1998 – Spanish Socialist party. BBC London UK. Spanish Socialist workers party. PSOE. Spanish Socialist party.

25 Nov 1998 – Spain government budget policy. Socialist party, Borrell. AFX news London UK. Socialist party Partido Soclista.

12 March 1999 – Spanish Socialist leader, Lafontaine. BBC London UK. Leader of Spain’s Socialist party Josep Borrell European Socialists.

29 March 1999 – Spanish police smash drugs ring, arrest 25. BBC London.

7 July 1999 – Spanish police arrest 54 as drug rings smashed. BBC London. Cocaine and heroin.

29 Sept 1999 – Basque city protests Socialist party offices. BBC London UK. Socialist member party office damaged.

27 Jan 2000 – Unidentified people set fire to a citroen car dealership in Iturreta causing damage to the building and destroying 12 vehicles. The attack bore the hallmark of Basque fatherland and liberty ETA.

9 March 2001 – ETA bombing, two police were killed by the explosion of a car bomb in Hernani Spain.

10 July 2001 – Mohamed Atta met Ramzi bin al-Shibh in Spain along with a number of other Arab men. Bin al-Shibh may also have been at the January 2000 Malaysian meeting.

13 April 2002 – Spanish police arrest Ahmed Brahim who is believed to be the chief financial officer of al-Qaeda network.

2004 – Madrid train bombings by al Qaeda, killing 191 people. Lots of people protested. (Putin’s labyrinth. Steve Levine ©2008 2009 US)

11 March 2004 – A coordinated series of 10 explosions aboard four packed commuter trains in Madrid killed 191 people and injured more than 1,500 others. The attacks were carried out by terrorists boarding the system at outlying stations, deploying their device laden packages in trains and exiting before the predetermined time of detonation.

19 Oct 2004 – More terror arrests in Spain but still no evidence presented.

18 Oct 2006 – Passports stolen from the Pakistani mission in Spain, concern they may go to extremists.

19 Oct 2004 – Arrests foil Spain court attack, police arrested 7 suspected Islamic militants in raids across Spain, to foil a planned bomb attack on the high court.

7 Nov 2006 – Operation Suez, on 7 Nov 2006 agents from the Spanish national police in Madrid arrested 4 men because of their involvement in a document falsification ring, providing document cover to either Spain and other European countries. The ring  had been operating for at least 2 years. One of the detainees, Nasreddive Bousbaa, an Algerian, had been jailed for having contact with the organisers of the terrorism attacks in Madrid, but was later released in Feb 2005. (Jamestown vol 3 issue 45, 21 Nov 2006, Kathryn Haahs).

Feb 2007 – 29 Islamists involved in the 11 March 2003 terror attacks in Madrid trials began in Feb 2007. (Jamestown vol 3 issue 45. 21 Nov 2006 Kathryn Haahr).

10 Feb 2007 – CNN The national count in Spain convicted 5 Algerians on Islamic terrorism charges and sentenced them to 13 years each according to a sentence. The 3 judges panel acquitted a 6^th Algerian man. The court convicted the 5 men for membership in a terrorist organisation and for document forgery for terrorist purposes. The court acquitted the 5 men on charges of conspiracy to carry out a terrorist attack and possession of explosives. One of the men, Mohamed Tahraoui aged 24 had been charged in an alleged plot on the military base Rotz where US and Spanish troops are based. Near the strait of Gibraltar, that charge was not proven in court. 16 Islamists were arrested in Jan 2003 near Barcelona and rearrested in 2004.

15 Feb 2007 – CNN 10 Feb 2007. The presiding judge Javer Gomez Bermudez will be the judge in the Madrid train bombing trail with 29 defendants, due to start 15 Feb.,

15 May 2009 – The cocaine in Spain falls freely in Madrid. Paul Bibby AFP Sydney Morning Herald NSW.

2010 – Mafias in sex trafficking run 4,000 brothels in Spain earning 18 billion Euros a year. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

18 Oct 2011 – BBC. Spain’s stolen babies and the families who lived a lie.

15 Sept 2013 – Spain arrests 4 Hells angels in a large cocaine bust. NZ Herald Madrid AP. Sailed from Colombia with cocaine.

23 Sept 2014 – Spanish lawmaker. Russian mafia case. RAPOSI. Moscow. Catalonia. Andrei Petrov.

3 Oct 2014 – Madeleine McCann disappearance. Might be in Spain. Express UK. Former solder and prison worker David Fullman contacted UK detectives about a sighting in Spain.

8 Oct 2014 – Spanish police detain 54 in paedophile ring. Euro Weekly news. Arrested members of a paedophile ring, child porn file shares on P2P.

27 Oct 2014 – Spain has arrested 51 top figures in an anti corruption swoop. The Guardian UK. A network of corruption.

27 Oct 2014 – Ten corruption cases in Spain. The local.es. Corruption. Spain arrested 51 top figures in an anti corruption swoop. The network of corruption.

28 Oct 2014 – Poverty and education, a lost decade for Spain’s children. The Guardian blog. PorCamsa 2.7 million Spanish children live in poverty and social exclusion.

28 Oct 2014 – Spain police arrest mafia trafficking cocaine. RIA Novosti. 420 kilograms of cocaine from Latin America into Europe.

3 Nov 2014 – Spain police arrested 19 people trafficking women. BBC news. Smuggling Russian, Ukrainian and Belarussian women into Spain.

4 Nov 2014 – Corrupt Spanish politics. The Guardian UK. 2,000 Politicians investigated for corruption, including the mayor of Lore.