The Jihadi Super-Highway

Spain and Morocco agree to press on with Straits tunnel

The Spanish Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, promised on Tuesday in Rabat that his Government was “firmly committed” to the project to build a railway tunnel under the Straits of Gibraltar, linking Spain and Morocco. Further steps would be taken, he claimed, once the necessary geological surveys had been completed.

Ill advised. Here's one reason:

Man blows himself up in Internet cafe

CASABLANCA, Morocco - A man with explosives hidden on his body blew himself up in an Internet cafe after the owners prevented him from looking at terror Web sites, the Interior Ministry said Monday.

The man was killed and four people were injured in the Sunday night blast in a Casablanca slum, said ministry spokesman Abderrahman Achour. One of the wounded was the dead man's companion, who was hospitalized with burns and a throat injury.

Creating a grand, expensive and questionable tunnel that would link an unstable Muslim country with mainland Europe should be harshly scrutinized by the European Union. It may just turn out to be the world's most expensive act of suicide by a civilization to date.

Spain should reconsider.