Scientists at theNationalCentreofCardiovascularResearch in Madrid, Spain, studied 811 patients who wereadmitted to hospital with heart attacks between 2003 and 2009.
This week's attacks on London, following similar attacks on Madrid in 2004, have raised new questions in Europe about the consequences of supporting US policies in Iraq and in the war on terror.
Reinares, who became a senior adviser on counter-terrorism in the Spanish government after the attacks, writes that when the Madrid cell was dismantled in 2001, there was insufficient evidence to prosecute at least three men.