JAMAL ZOUGAM

He is considered to be the alleged perpetrator of Madrid’s massacre, after being identified by several witnesses who claim to have seen him at the train of El Pozo and Santa Eugenia. He is a important member of the “Lavapies Group” and evidence suggests that he has been a member since 2001 of a jihadist Islamic network. The more than 143 phone cards used in the carnage came from the Jawal Telecom booth he ran. The evidence links him with “Mohamed The Egyptian”, one of the alleged intellectual perpetrators, and with one of those who committed  suicide in Leganés, “Serhane, The Tunisian”, who was the spiritual leader of March 11. Moreover, the court  maintains that he traveled on February 28th 2004 to Asturias along with “The Chinaman” to picking up the explosives used on March 11 (this piece of information does not appear on the indictment).

ABDELMAJID BOUCHAR.

He is considered along with Zougam, to be one of the alleged perpetrators of the massacre. A witness claims to have seen him getting off the train one stop before Callle Téllez station, where one of the explosions took place. Moreover he was seen by a policeman who was on surveillance outside the flat in Leganés where terrorists blew themselves up. Apparently, Bouchar went down to put the rubbish out and spotting the police went to warn his roommates and then escaped. Evidence links him with others involved in the attacks, and who supposedly are linked to Islamic jihad, with whom Bouchar maintained frequent personal and phone contacts.

JOSÉ EMILIO SUÁREZ TRASHORRAS

Born in 1979 in the town of Avilés in Asturias. Under this ex-miner is indicted with the most serious charges: Not only is he considered to be the essential accomplice of the train bombings, but also of the explosion in Leganés (where seven Islamists committed suicide, a member of the GEO brigade (special operation police brigade) died and another 18 members where injured). There is strong evidence incriminating Trashorras as the man who supplied the explosives to “The Chinaman´s” group. The Court cites among other incriminating evidencethe fact that he attended meetings with the Islamic cell of Madrid, in both the capital and Asturias, to negotiate the sale of the Goma 2 Eco explosive stolen at the Conchita mine. Further incriminating evidence against Trashorras is the fact that he organized the three trips involving the defendants Sergio Ávarez and Antonio Iván Reis, and of the already condemned minor, known as “The Gitanillo” whi in order to transport the explosive and deliver it to Jahmal Ahmidan. Furthermore the Court highlights the fact that Trashorras and the Islamists were in frequent phone contact and also the reactions shown to his close relations when aware of the attack.

RABEI OSMAN EL SAYED 'EL EGIPCIO'

He is considered to be one of the three perpetrators of the bomb attacks because he was in contact with the other defendants, such as “The Tunisian”, Basel Ghalyoun or Fouad El Morabit,. He was arrested in Milan in June 2004 as a result of an Italian Police wire tap in which “The Egyptian” spoke of himself as the ideologist and organizer of the attacks. He left Spain a few days before the massacre, on December 7th 2004 he was temporarily extradited to Spain and on April 18th 2005 was sent back to Italy. He is accused of belonging to a terrorist group and of conspiring to acts of terrorism.

Born in Alazizya-Samnou in 1971, “The Egyptian” lived for a year with ”The Tunisian”, one of the seven who committed suicide in Leganés and with whom he set up a terrorist structure. He was once an officer in the Egyptian Army and an explosive expert.

He is accused of belonging to a terrorist group and of conspiring to acts of terrorism in relation with 191 murders, 1,775 attempted murders and of four crimes for acts of terrorism.

Moroccan by birth (Geulmin, 1963), el Haski was arrested in the Canary Islands in December 2004. He has been imprisoned as the alleged leader within Europe of the GICM, a Moroccan branch of Al Qaeda which is accused of perpetrating the terrorist attacks in Casablanca in 2003, which el Haski may have helped to perpetrate. According to one of the witnesses, el Haski escaped from Spain just before March, 11. He managed to avoid detention for the plot, in France and Belgium, despite the fact that there was a warrant out for his arrest.

YOUSSEF BELHADJ

Under the nickname of “Abu Duçiana”, Belhadj has been identified as the one who claimed Al Qaeda´s responsibility for the attacks, in a videotape found in a trash bin close to the mosque near the M30 ringroad in Madrid. He is believed to be the spokesman of Al Qaeda in Europe because of his radical profile and he is also believed to have indoctrinated Bouchar, Brahim and Mohamed Moussaten, and Mohammed Afallah. One of his nephews, Mohamed Moussate, who is also accused, has declared that his uncle asked him to get involved in jihad, and that he saw him handling large amounts of money, that according to him, was for the cause of “carrying out jihad in Afghanistan”. He is also accused of fundraising for the jihad and of harboring terrorists all over Europe.

He is accused of belonging to a terrorist group and of conspiring to acts of terrorism in relation with 191 murders, 1,775 attempted murders and of four crimes for acts of terrorism.

Moroccan by birth (Touzine, 1976), Belhadj settled in Brussels and traveled to Madrid in February 2004, where he was in touch with Bouchar, Afallah and his nephews. On February 2005 he was arrested, due to his link with the GICM, in Brussels, where he financed the terrorists` traveling expenses from funds raised in a mosque. On his extradition to Spain, Judge Del Olmo ordered his unconditional imprisonment. Belhad left Spain suddenly a week before the massacre, on March 3rd,

Moroccan by birth (Nador-Mar, 1973), this electronic engineer was a construction worker in Ugeda (Toledo), together with Ghalyoun. He also shared the flat located in Virgen del Coro street with Ghalyoun, and here they met with other terrorists. According to the Audiencia Nacional court, both of them were personal contacts of Mohamed “The Egyptian”, and they recruited Syrian citizens as terrorists. They informed of the whereabouts of “The Egyptian” in Milan and also of his phone number.

Syrian by birth (Hons, 1984), he maintained relations with “The Tunisian”, with Fouad El Morabit Amghar and with “The Egyptian”. The latter has admitted his participation in the attacks. Ghalyoun was initially considered one of the actual perpetrators because one of those injured recognized him and said that he saw him on the trains. However, the judge Del Olmo has reviewed the charges because Ghalyoun was not recognized by the witnesses in a second identification parade.

MOUHANNAD ALMALLAH 'DABAS'

His indictment is based on his presence at meetings held in Virgen del Coro, the premises he rented where some the accused were living (such as the suicide Asir Rifaat Anouar), or in near Navalcarnero. It is maintained that in both places “Dabas” played a role as an ideological promoter of Islamic terrorism- Almallah had direct relations with “the Tunisian”, Ghalyoun, El Morabit and “the Chinaman”. He may also have established contacts with Mustafá Maymouni, “the Tunisian’s” brother-in-law, who has been convicted for his participation in Casablanca attacks. Moreover, it is likely that he could have provided fored documents to Amer Azizi, with the object of allowing him to escape disguised as a woman from “Operación Dátil” (Operation Date), which dismantled a Spanish Al Qaeda cell.

Syrian by birth, (Damasco, 1964), Mouhannad Almallah has been arrested on two occasion: the first time, after the attacks, when he released, and the second on March 2005. Like his brother Moutaz, arrested in London, he is accused of recruiting young radicals with the aim of sending them abroad and of rendering support to one of the suicides of Leganés.

RAFÁ ZOHUIER

Zohuier was an informer for the Civil Guard’s Central Operations Brigade (UCO), and there is evidence connecting him with the “death trains”: the contacts he maintained with the members of the Asturias network since the beginnings of 2003 (where he was the link between these members and the members of the Islamic cell in Madrid) or his assistance to some of the meetings held with the aim of negotiating the sale of the explosives. It is claimed that at the end of 2004 Zouhier travelled along with “the Chinaman” to Asturias where Suárez Trashorras gave him the dynamite used in the attacks. He is accused of trafficking with explosives and collaboration with a terrorist group.

He was born in Morocco (Casablanca, 1979) and met Antonio Toro while in prison in Asturias. Once he was released he facilitated contacts between members of the Asturias network and the terrorists. According to judge Del Olmo, even though Zouhier had full knowledge of the operation in its entirety, he not only concealed the information from the UCO, but may also have intended to confuse them. Zouhier warned the Civil Guard on March 17, when he saw a picture of “the Chinaman” on television

OTMAN EL GHANOUI

The Court stresses the degree of trust Ghanoui had with “the Chinaman”, whom he helped with the construction work in Chinchón. He used vehicles over which “the Chinaman” had control, carried out jobs that entrusted to him by “the Chinaman” and had knowledge of his radical tendencies and his work as a drug dealer or counterfeiter of personal and vehicle-related documents. In his statement before the judge he admitted that he had participated in the construction of the hideaway in the Chinchón house. He is accused of collaboration with a terrorist group and of trafficking with explosives (he participated in the transportation of the explosives from Asturias to the town of Morata de Tajuña in the Madrid region).

He was born in Morocco (Tetouan, 1975). Police began investigating him for drug trafficking. He was arrested on March, 30 2004 and his remand in prison was extended two years later.

Toro is Spanish by birth (Avilés, Asturias, 1977). He and Trashorras exchanged explosives for drugs, which were supplied by “the Chinaman” and Zouhier. He was arrested on two occasions for his connection with the Asturias explosives network, and entered prison on December, 2 2004.

Spanish by birth (Avilés, Asturias, 1981). She was a security guard at a department store. In her statement, Carmen Toro assured that she was with her husband on February 2004 at the Morata de Tajuña house where bombs were manufactured. She was arrested and released on June 2004.

EMILIANO LLANO ÁLVAREZ

He was the security guard at mine Conchita y Collada, where dynamite was stolen, allowing himself the robbery. He is accused of explosives traffic, transportation or supply. The court considers there is plenty evidence against this indicted.

Spanish by birth (Cangas del Nancea, Asturias, 1960), Llano Alvarez was arrested on June 9th, 2004, Judge Del Olmo fixed a bail of € 25,000.

Spanish by birth (Piedralonga- Tineo, 1979), “El Rulo” was arrested on June 12th, 2004 and Judge Del Olmo ordered his released fixing a bail of € 35,0000.

Spanish by birth (Avilés, Asturias, 1981). “Amokachi” was a butcher at a supermarket. He was arrested on June 14th, 2004 due to his connection with the “Asturias plot”. He has already been released.

However, it seems that he accompanied him at least once when picking up   the explosives at Conchita mine and its proximities. His lawyer states that   although he accompanied Trashorras to his meeting with Raúl González Peláez, Granados didn’t even get out of the car and that he didn’t know what it was all about. Like Del Olmo, the Court also maintains that he knew what was in the bag he gave to “The Chinaman”, because he had accompanied Suárez Trashorras to the mine to keeping watch while Trashorras “picked up” the material. He is accused of collaborating with a terrorist group and trafficking, transporting and supplying the explosives.

Spanish by birth (Avilés, Asturias, 1982) and   close to  Suárez Trashorras and Antonio Toro, he was arrested on June 9th, 2004. He has already been released.

HAMID AHMIDAN

The incriminating evidence against this defendant is that he helped do up the Chinchón house, by building an underground cache for the explosives. Other incriminating evidence includes his  the frequent phone calls he made to his cousin, “The Chinaman”, as well as  his finger prints and DNA samples found at the Morata de Tajuña house, in the Renault Megane and at “The Chinaman´s” house. Also found at his domicile were fake documentation for El Ganoui with a photograph of “The Chinaman” and a large amount of drugs, so he can also be charged with a public health crime.

Moroccan by birth (1977, Tetouan) He claims innocence of the two charges and that he is in prison (since March 30th, 2004) because he is “The Chinaman´s” cousin.

ABDELILAH EL FADOUAL EL AKIL

He is another of the alleged collaborators. Mahmoud Slimane Aoun has admitted that he maintained a close working relationship, related to drug trafficking, with Abdelilah El Fadoual, whose hashish trade helped finance the attacks. He is also connected with “the Chinaman” and is accused of helping him leave Morocco n the summer of 2003 with his fake documentation. He bought a vehicle that was used for transporting the dynamite from Asturias. Furthermore he also stayed at the Morata house and knew several of the accused.

Moroccan by birth (Tetouan, 1969), El Fadoual El Akil has been in Alcalá Meco Prison since April 7th, 2004.

MOHAMED BOUHARRAT

Although the indictment does not consider him to be one of the material perpetrators of the attack, it is believed that, as a result of being indoctrinated in prison, once he was released he was in “frequent contact” with some of the accused. The incriminating evidence includes:  obtaining information on possible objectives, the discovery of his fingerprints on a religious book, the passport photos found and his phone conversations with several of the accused. He is connected with the renting of the Leganés flat and of other flats that may have been used by terrorists.

Moroccan by birth (Tangier 1979), he was arrested firstly and briefly on April 26th, 2004, when he declared that he was in Catalonia on March 11. He was arrested again on May 21st, 2004 due to the inconsistencies in his statement when interrogated regarding the meetings held with “The Chinaman” and other defendants in the days leading up to March 11.

Moroccan by birth (Khouribga, 1979), Aglif had been arrested previously in “operación Merlín” in 2001, due to his participation in the robbery of various jewelry shops with another 10 Moroccans.

This Moroccan, born in 1973, was a colleague of one of those who committed suicide in Leganés, Abdennabi Kounjaa, and he is involved due to the phone calls made from his cell phone to “The Chinaman”. El Harrak insists that the phone calls were made by Kounjaa and that he doesn’t know any of the defendants.

The owner of the construction company where he worked gave the police all El Harrak´s belongings after his arrest (on May 10th, 2004), among them were three letters written by Kouniaa to his family. On May 10th of last year he was released from prison, after serving two years of preventive detention without either the  judge or the prosecutor extending the period.

NASREDDINE BOUSBAA.

In his statement, Bousbaa admitted talking to Jamal Ahmidan about forged documents with Arab names which “The Chinaman” had provided. These documents, 14 forged ID cards, were found in the rumble of the Leganés flat. He has not been able to explain his comfortable economic situation despite being unemployed nor why both his wife and daughter fled Spain. In spite of being unemployed, Bousbaa had great savings, a fact that he still has not explained.

Moreover, It is believed that the Moussaten’s brothers could have passed on the phone numbers of the two that escaped from the Leganés flat to his uncle. He was released on July 21st, 2005 on a € 600 bail.

In his statement, Mohamed declared that his uncle, Youssef Belhadj, had told him that he was a member of Al Qaeda. He was released on July 21st, 2005 after paying € 600 bail.