Travelling Shoes has got an excellent post on the question, "Who is Javier Robert?" Seems that as part of the Oil-for-Food scam, three people in Spain were on the list of people who were bribed by Saddam with oil coupons. Two of them were Spaniards of Arab origin, and the other is one Javier Robert, who doesn't seem to exist. A couple of the more sensationalist Spanish magazines, Interviu and La Clave, have suggested that "Javier Robert" is really Javier Ruperez, the Spanish ambassador in Washington. Interesting if true.

James Taranto links to Baltasar Garzon's continuing investigation into the Spanish connection with 9/11. We know that Mohammed Atta and the Al Qaeda boys met with a bunch of other conspirators in the months before 9/11 in out-of-the-way hotels in Tarragona and Salou, very close to Barcelona. What they're trying to figure out is exactly who is connected to whom and to what because, let me tell you, there are so many Mohammad Thises and Abu Thats and Abdul The Other Things involved in the whole Al Qaeda / Terrorist International spiderweb that I can't believe the cops can keep it all straight, because I certainly can't.