Islamic bombers plotted more attacks

Madrid was just the first:

Islamic militants blamed for last year's commuter train bombings in Madrid were plotting more bloodshed - a string of suicide attacks in the months after the massacre, Spain's counterterrorism director told The Associated Press on Thursday.

Fernando Reinares, the counterterrorism chief, said the militants most likely to have carried out such suicide attacks in Spain - which would have been the first ever in western Europe - were seven men who blew themselves up April 3 as special forces moved in to arrest them.

"According to data collected so far, it can be deduced that those terrorists were probably planning suicide attacks in the months or weeks after" the train bombings, which killed 191 people and wounded more than 1,500, Reinares told AP.

Reinares said the information suggested "their terrorist campaign was not going to end on March 11, but was going to go on and include suicide attacks at a later stage."

Reinares said information about the Madrid bombers' suicide attack plans was featured in a new book by a Spanish investigative reporter, but the information wasn't carried in the mainstream Spanish media.

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