Wednesday March 14, 2007 5:16 AM
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By MAR ROMAN
Associated Press Writer
MADRID, Spain (AP) - Four witnesses to the 2004 Madrid train bombings testified Tuesday that they saw an alleged bomber on one of the doomed double-decker trains.
The protected witnesses, who spoke behind a screen and were identified by a number, said they recognized Jamal Zougam "without any doubt.'' Zougam, from Morocco, is one of 29 suspects charged in the March 11, 2004, attacks, which killed 191 people and wounded hundreds.
When one of them was asked where exactly on the double-decker train he had seen Zougam, the witness said he could not remember because three years had passed.
After the bombings, the witness had told police he saw Zougam placing a sports bag on the ground floor. On Tuesday, he told the three-judge panel overseeing the trial that Zougam was on the upper floor. When asked by Zougam's lawyer for clarification, he said he did not remember.
The backpack bombs exploded on the upper floor of the train.
Zougam, who ran a shop that sold most of the cell phone cards used to set off the bombs, has denied any involvement with the attacks and said he was asleep during the morning blasts.
When he testified nearly a month ago, he said any witnesses who thought they saw him placing a bomb on one of the trains were confused because his face was shown on television.
In other testimony Tuesday, another protected witness retracted an earlier statement and said the man she saw aboard one of the trains was not one of the defendants, Syrian Basel Ghalyoun, but was another suspect, Daoud Aouhnane, who is still at large and believed to have fled the country.
Ghalyoun and Zougam face sentences of up to 38,656 years - 30 years for each of the killings and 18 years each for 1,820 attempted murders - although under Spanish law the maximum time anyone can spend imprisoned is 40 years.
The trial started Feb. 15 and is expected to last at least five months.
