In 2001 Spain was becoming stronger in the Gibraltar Strait scenario, Spain did not let dictator Mohamed Sixth play with Spain the usual menace game of "you do this or things will happen..."; our country had its own foreign policy and was defending its strategical interests.
Traditionally France and Morocco have shared a common interest in keeping Spain relatively weak. France has always had a big interest in keeping some control in the area of the Strait of Gibraltar through its Moroccan ally and the allience Mr. José María Aznar had established with the US and Britain was a matter of concern in Paris.
France had important oil businesses going on with Sadam Hussein at the time of the US British military intervention in Irak, and french authorities did all they could to refrain other countries from intervening.
Mr. Zapatero paid a visit to tyrant king Mohamed Sixth in December 2001 at the time when the Moroccan ambassador to Madrid had been withdrawn and Morocco was using its traditional methods of putting pressure: allowing illegal immigrants cross the border to Spain and letting the drug flow into Europe (if you wonder if the Moroccan king has some share in these two "businesses" just remeber that nothing goes on there without some kind of royal consent).
Since one of Zapatero´s main points was what he called to return to the "heart of Europe" (meaning France and Germany) instead of building the transatlantic bond with the US, Zapatero was an easy prey for the Moroccan dictator who knew he could use this power thirsty maniac to his benefit. Mohammed promised Zapatero his support if Zapatero gave him in exchange the guarantees of changing the Spanish foreign policy once he was in office. France of course was more than happy if Mohammed could help them get rid of the audacious José María Aznar.
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And there he was sitting by Mohammed in a room presided by a map of Morocco that included non Moroccan territories like Ceuta, Melilla, the Canary Islands or the Western Sahara.
Morocco was very concerned about the facts that Spain was supporting the implementation of the UN resolution on conducting a referendum of self-determination in Western Sahara (something Morocco totally opposes) and was building a good relation with Morocco traditional foe: Algeria.
All these things infuriated the Sultan and his French ally. Some months later Morocco put to test the Spanish government determination by invading a small Spanish island (Perejil). Moroccan authorities wanted to see if Spain was going to back up in its will to mantain a strong position and defending the Spanish strategical interest and the answer came in July 2002 when this island was liberated.
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The day after this bloodless Spanish intervention King Mohammed VI sent her sister, Princess Lalla Mariam, to Paris with an urgent message for Jacques Chirac. Mohamed VI urged Chirac to act together to rein Spain in. The response from Paris to Mohamed VI was this: "It's now or never when we must act to oppose the Spanish penetration in Morocco." (source Ignacio Cembrero, journalist in "El País" newspaper)
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It must also be said that during the Perejil island crisis France never showed its support to Spain even though these two countries are allies within the European Union and the NATO, which is very revealing.
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France and Morocco knew then that Aznar was not going to change his policy and they also knew that Zapatero was going to "return" to the "heart of Europe" (whatever the hell that is) and also to let Mohammed do and undo at his royal will in the Western Sahara. Also, and very important, Zapatero must have promised in those days to give a lower profile to the Spanish-Algerian relations and the facts are that Algeria is really pissed with Zapatero after the Spanish government paid a ramson to the same terrorist that Algeria is continuously fighting. Of course now Algeria is threatening to increase gas prices to Spain.
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Then in March 11th 2004, 3 days before the General Elections in Spain the attack took place and Zapatero achieved an unexpected victory. Those who planned the attacks new very well what the reaction would be among Spanish voters. The attack was performed to make Zapatero become President in Spain. Almost all the attackers were Moroccans and the first thing they asked after being able to speak to their lawyers was : "who has won the elections?"
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Al Qaeda knows very little aout the complexities of Spanish idiosyncrasy and they would never have come up with such a sociological attack. This attack was perpetrated in the precise date and in the precise manner so as to change the will of the voters and achieve its goals.
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The interesting part is that these goals were pretty much consistent with the interests of both Moocco and France. Striking, isn´t it?
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Pd. Morocco is beating, raping, sacking and torturing the Western Sahara population these days but do not look for a note of protest from the Spanish government...you will not find that...Striking isn´t it?
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