Car Bombing In Spain After ETA Warning

UK Yahoo ^ | March 21, 2008 | Sky News

[SunkenCiv]

A car bomb has exploded in Spain after a warning from the Basque separatist group ETA.

The blast happened outside a police station in the northern town of Calahorra.

The bomb went off in an area that had been filled with people attending a Good Friday religious procession.

The Civil Guard station targeted in the attack and surrounding buildings were evacuated before the blast in the Rioja region.

One officer suffered a mild injury in the neck.

The phone call was made at 12.20pm (GMT) and the blast happened about 40 minutes later.

ETA had issued a warning stating the location of the bomb and the make, model and colour of the car.

It ended a ceasefire in December 2006 after peace talks failed.

The group murdered a former town councillor in the Basque region two days before the Spanish general election on March 9.

It has killed more than 800 people since the late 1960s in its fight to create an independent Basque homeland in northern Spain and southwestern France.

[SunkenCiv]

But hey, reelect the socialists, they'll fix the problem.

[SunkenCiv]

Have a great day, all.

[Dr. Ursus]

Ive been to spain twice.Beautiful country with nice people.
I don’t understand that they surrendered to the Muslims in
30 seconds,but they continue the fight against the Basque?

[SunkenCiv]

The Moslems just pulled the Iberian kingdoms down one by one (after having been invited over to fight on one side in some petty squabble, so the story goes).

[Wurlitzer]

Lost the argument with my wife on sending my daughter to Spain & France (phuteeeee) for her foreign language trip from High Skrewl. Maybe this will help. NOT! Testosterone cannot compete with a double dose of estrogen especially when one is a teenager with a sub-reasoning brain.

[bert]

Why Spain.....

Why not Cancun?

(be thankful)

[Polybius]

The Moslems just pulled the Iberian kingdoms down one by one (after having been invited over to fight on one side in some petty squabble, so the story goes).

In 711 A.D., there was only one kingdom in Iberia, the Visigothic Kingdom.

In a dynastic struggle, one Visigothic prince asked for Muslim help against his brother and there went the neighborhood.

The fall of the Visigothic Kingdom was swift and all of Iberia was soon under Muslim control except for the cold, wet and mountainous region of Asturias and a small part of Galicia in northern Spain.

These regions, populated by stubborn Celts, had been the last to be conquered by Rome, had never been quite conquered by the Visigoths and were not even very Christian at the time.

Believing that the cold, rainy area was not worth the effort, the Muslims expended no further efforts in its conquest after an initial defeat. They ignored the area to the point that an early history of al Andalus did not even know of the birth of the new Kingdom of Asturias.

From that small corner of Iberia began the reconquest of Iberia that lasted until the Muslim Kingdom of Granada fell in 1492.

To this day, Asturians have a saying: "Asturias is Spain. Everything else is merely reconquered territory."

In regards to Spanish voters surrendering to the Muslims, we must remember that we ourselves in the U.S. are one election away from potentially surrendering in Iraq.

[E. Cartman]

Car Bombing In Spain After ETA Warning

Just blowback from our recognition of Kosovo, but, hey, nothing to worry about.

[JasonC]

It is a quagmire. Spaniards must pull out of the Iberian penisula entirely, within 60 days of Obama taking office. Bin Laden said so, it must be true.

[stuartcr]

Yeah, and the Basques are Christians!!!

[J Aguilar]

SunkenCiv, the Socialist won because they absorbed the votes of the radical left and the separatists from the Basque region and Catalonia: most regions of Spain voted against them.

[J Aguilar]

The problem is far more complex:

ETA participated in the 3/11 coup,

3/11: The Disinformation Campaign

and, it seems, has also participated in another operation to polarize the Spanish public opinion just before the last National Elections:

Strategy of Tension: ETA Murders Again Two Days Before the National Elections

The Socialists are de facto allies of ETA since 3/11, they have applied since then radical policies that have attracted the vote of the separatists, which have compensated the loss of votes from the center. Now we have in Spain, with all its consequences, a truly National Socialist government, where violence is used to manipulate the public opinion. It is the well known Strategy of Tension, and ETA constitutes the foot soldiers.

Now, it seems, the foot soldiers are demanding their pay.

[J Aguilar]

The fall of the Visigothic Kingdom has something in common with today Spain: then the Roman population was completely dissociated from the ruling class, the Goths, and their continuious civil wars triggered by an elective monarchy.

Today’s Spain has similar problems: the country is divided and paralized by the continous conflict fostered by a separatism fed from the Basque and Catalonian oligarchies in order to exploit the country as a plantation.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Polybius and J Aguilar.

[SunkenCiv]

It is a quagmire. Spaniards must pull out of the Iberian penisula entirely, within 60 days of Obama taking office. Bin Laden said so, it must be true.

LOL!