" The March 11, 2004 I got up as usual at 6.30. (...) It seemed it was going to be a day of formalisms, tranquil and institutional. (...) At 7:45, when he was near the Central Unit EOD and CBRN, located in Canillas police complex in Madrid, my phone rang. It was room 091. ' The chief of the EOD? Commissioner. " Juan Jesus Sanchez Manzano, head curator of the bomb the day, from 7.30 am, an Islamist command killed 191 people on four trains in Madrid, and starts the memories and reflections that has resulted in his book The pumps 11 - M. First-person account.
The work of 348 pages (Amazon, Create Space, December 2013), is a closed defense of the actions of the first discoveries whose bomb - shattered thesis had been led to ETA and Mina Conchita (from where the detonators) - and a direct attack on the political, judicial and media players mutant conspiracy theories (ETA was a collaboration, a trap, a conspiracy of politicians and police against Aznar...), who for years tried to sit on the bench Manzano as terrorist collaborator.
Manzano, today head of MÃ_stoles (Madrid) commissioner, details about the second work of your unit from the time of the attacks. It does so based on police and court documents, especially one whose existence reveals for the first time: the memory performances of the specialty, which opened on March 11 and closed on June 21, 2004.
The curator writes that at 8.30 and 11 -M " the EOD had ruled " that trains had exploded Titadyne, the brand of dynamite hitherto used ETA knew because he had stolen in Grenoble, or had been seized intact although it has never been scientifically verified is impossible - because - it was that broke that mark in the attacks on the Basque side. He ruled by what they saw when they tried to defuse two bombs at El Pozo and Atocha: the viewing was " ivory " and that they had seen dozens of times before in the hands of ETA was " orange and reddish color."
In the book (whose rights donated to the Orphan Foundation of National Police) insists that neither he nor anyone in his unit never told anyone what broke out Titadyne but dynamite, without more, as it became known after the first technical analysis, at 1430. If then noticed that what was found was Goma 2 ECO was the remains found in the van Renault Kangoo requisitioned this March 11 in Alcalá de Henares (where they boarded the train terrorists), the material found in the rucksack off the next night after being taken to the police station in Vallecas, by analysis of the bomb that was intended to fly an AVE (the assassination attempt on April 2, always ignored by Conspiranoids) train or collected all the remains of suicide (and Geo murder of Javier Torronteras) Islamist command in an apartment in Leganes. " And none of the elements coincided with the material used by ETA." Manzano argues that thanks to the work of his unit (with the help of a technician Maxam explosives company) could be reached by the track Asturias detonators (not dynamite, at first). What allowed (with other data) to find and stop terrorists continue killing, as had been announced and already prepared.
The man explains how if your work - which always had to witness his upper - quickly helped clarify the facts, as the judgment of the High Court was established that he eventually became the preferred target of Conspiranoids revisionists and 11th.
The commissioner also reveals how he " struck by the insistent call of the National Intelligence Center," they " gunned " the phones to ask and to make explosives " hypothesis without logic or coherence." And is surprised by the fact that the government of José MarÃ_a Aznar acudiera to ask the National Intelligence Centre (CNI) for author and not the EOD, who with what they had on the analysis of artifacts and afternoon of March 11 (and totaling 12 -M) could have told him that " did not correspond to those used by ETA." Does not anyone told them neither the president nor the Minister Angel Acebes discoveries, asks. But is not able to answer.
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