Fernando Reinares - Al-Qaedas Revenge: The 2004 Madrid Train Bombings

Al-Qaedas Revenge

This book was made possible thanks to the affection and support of many people, ranging from uniquely loving intimates and relatives, to whom I offer my deepest gratitude, to friends and colleagues, who in many cases, most fortunately, belong to both categories. All of them know personally the depth of my gratitude. Thanks are also due for the collaboration of many judicial, police, and intelligence senior officials, both inside and outside Spain, who, if not explicitly mentioned, it is because they prefer to remain anonymous. The research for this book was done between 2008 and 2013, and was conducted in a good number of countries across the world, mainly while I was based at the Elcano Royal Institute (Real Instituto Elcano) in Madrid. But I also strongly benefited from the help provided by the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, also in Madrid, and by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, as well as by the Center for Security Studies at Georgetown University, in Washington. When it comes to people I can name, I am especially grateful to Carola Garca-Calvo, Emilio Lamo de Espinosa, Bruce Hoffman, Rob Litwak, Charles Powell, and Bruce Riedel. And I am also grateful to Isabel Bazaga, Rut Bermejo, Mara Cifuentes, Lee Hamilton, Javier Jordn, Maite Pagazaurtundua, Joan Tarrida, Pedro Gonzlez-Trevijano, and, last but not least, Peter Waldmann. I was privileged to participate in exchanges on 3/11 with, among others, Bruno Megale, Rafael Gmez Menor, Jess de la Morena, Mara Ponte, and Javier Zaragoza. A true gift for me was the assistance provided by Antoine Garapon, Juan Antonio Jabaloy, Carolina Jimnez, ngel Llorente, Marco Lombardi, Francisco de Miguel, lvaro Vicente, Cristina Villa, and Christopher Wall. Gracias, muchas gracias, to Joe Brinley and Shannon Granville of the Woodrow Wilson Center Press, to Alfred F. Imhoff, and to Anne Routon of Columbia University Press. The memory of the victims of the March 11 attacks was and is always present in my mind and in my heart.