A Tunisian man suspected of being the ringleader of the Madrid train bombings began planning for Jihad in Madrid in 2003.

The Tunisian, Serhane ben Abdelmajid Farkhet, 35, was identified as the “personal leader and coordinator” of the group implicated in the March 11 attack, which killed 191 people three days before Spain’s general election, the warrants said.

The other five named in arrest warrants are Moroccan, including one man traced to an al Qaeda meeting in Istanbul in 2000. Two others are brothers of the only woman jailed in the case, and a fourth rented the house used to prepare the bombs, the warrants said.

Fakhet “not only was the energizing force for the awareness campaign for the jihad … but also with specific intent (since the middle of 2003 at least) for the preparation of a violent act in Spain, specifically in the Madrid area,” the warrants said.

Of course, Spain no longer needs to worry about the jihad—or so Zapatero and Moratinos believe. In the words of Churchill, they had a choice between dishonor and war; they chose dishonor.

And they shall have war. Holy war.