Posted on 02/09/2005 1:01:43 AM PST by HAL9000
Hard explosion next to the Palace of Congresses of Madrid
A strong explosion has registered this morning next to the Palace of Congresses of Madrid. According to eyewitnesses, a car is destroyed in the Avenue of the $andes. The police and cash of the SAMUR are moving to the place of the facts and the buildings of the zone are being evacuated. The place of the outbreak is to few meters of IFEMA, where this late ARC with the attendance of the Kings and the president of Mexico is inaugurated, Vicente Fox.
well it worked once before...
Hope everyone's okay.
Gara call warned to explosion car pump Palace Madrid Congresses
Bilbao, 9 feb (EFE). - A call in name of ETA to the newspaper "Gara" alerted of the explosion of a car pump in the Palace of Congresses from Madrid to the 9.35 hours, informed sources into the Ertzaintza.
After to him being communicated the Basque Independent Police, the Ertzaintza was put in contact with the competent authorities to communicate the warning, indicated the same sources.
The filthy separatists sense weakness.
Anyone have the formula for Spanish capitulation? I recall it is a multiple of C4 and deaths and eye-minutes of worldwide press coverage and BBC trouser-peeing (in litres), but the exact ratios escape me at the moment.
Explosion heard in Madrid
MADRID (Reuters) - A bomb has exploded near a convention centre on the outskirts of Madrid and at least 10 people were treated for injuries, witnesses and officials say.
None of the injuries were serious.
A Basque newspaper received a warning in the name of the Basque separatist group ETA shortly before the bomb exploded.
The newspaper El Pais said on its Web site a destroyed car was seen at the site of the explosion on Wednesday. The newspaper El Mundo said there were light injuries.
Explosion in the suburbs of Madrid
A strong deflagration was heard close to the center of the Ifema exposures, in the northern suburbs of Madrid, one learned near the national police force. According to Internet site of the daily newspaper "El Pais", a destroyed vehicle is on the place of this explosion. The newspaper "El Mundo" makes state for its part of light casualties. The king Juan Carlos, accompanied by the Mexican president, Vicente Fox, was to inaugurate, Wednesday afternoon, the Fair of contemporary art ARCO, in Ifema. (AFP, Reuters)
Looks like ETA. They're a minor irritant at most, sort of like our own 'ELF.'
Spains "Freedom Fighters" are testing the waters.
I think they are also trying to ruin Spain's 2012 Olympics bid, to embarrass the government.
ETA is to the Basque country within Spain-France as the NAACP is to black America within the US. Desperate times call for desperate actions as their relevance is being eroded.
A little more info in this update
Madrid bomb blast hours before king visits site
(Filed: 09/02/2005)
Ten people were injured when a car bomb exploded outside a convention centre in Madrid.
The blast went off before police were able to clear the area after a warning purportedly from the Basque separatist group Eta was received by a newspaper.
The king and queen of Spain and Vicente Fox, the Mexican president, were scheduled to open an art exhibition at the convention centre several hours later.
None of the injuries are serious, emergency services said.
Basque police said the Basque newspaper Gara had received a warning about the blast from Eta.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/02/09/ueta2.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/02/09/ixportaltop.html
I was under the impression that Paris had essentially wrapped this thing up.
I think Madrid still has a chance.
The media buzz has been that Paris is a lock, though I suppose that could just be a rumor floated by certain members of the IOC, in order to deflect attention from their real choice.
Appeasing the terrorists has worked great.
He humbly laid down at the feet of Bin Laden and Al Qaida as commanded, now the commands will not let up. ETA only blows up structures - and law enforcement people, for the most part. Sooner or later, the appeasers will see that they made a bad bargain.
As always, they thought they gave up their honor to get peace.
Instead, they gave up their honor, and they will get violence anyway.
I'm in total agreement. Things have gone very badly for Spain since they elected the coward Zapatero as their President. Now, unemployment is sky high, ETA is making a comeback and there is no peace for the Spaniards. Their tourism is hurting and the face of Spain in the world is tarnished. A country in upheaval, a country besieged by terrorism...and they thought that by capitulating to Al Qaeda they were going to live in peace..no!!! Now ETA feels they can get their way, why not? It worked for Al Qaeda. We'll see how long Spain keeps Zapatero as their hero...
For those who may not know, it is widely expected that ETA will basically achieve its goal of splitting off the Basque region by the end of the year. So Spain will no longer be the Spain that it has been since all the various Spanish kingdoms were unified under Ferdinand and Isabel 500 years ago. Basically, the modern state of Spain may well break up.
The Basque region will become a hard-left socialist state, Catalonia will probably become a French-identified socialist state, and Morocco already has the Spanish North African cities of Ceuta and Melilla, as well as the Canary Islands, colored in Moroccan colors on its maps. There's no end to weakness once it gets going.
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