Spanish judge charges 29 over Madrid train bombings

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MADRID (AFP) — A Spanish judge charged 29 suspects, most of them Moroccan, with involvement in the March 11, 2004 train bombings in Madrid, which killed 191 people and injured nearly 2,000.

Of the 29, six were charged with murder and belonging to a terrorist organisation, four others with belonging to a terrorist organisation, 11 with collaboration and eight -- all Spaniards -- with involvement in handling explosives.

In a charge sheet running to 1,471 pages, judge Juan del Olmo accused Moroccans Jamal Zougam, Abdelmajid Bouchar, Youssef Belhadj and Hassan el Haski and an Egyptian, Rabei Ousman Sayed Ahmed, of 191 murders and 1,755 attempted murders.

The bombings were the worst attack in Europe since 270 people died when a Pan Am jet was blown up over the...