Posted on 07/29/2009 5:29:17 AM PDT by Cheap_Hessian
BURGOS, Spain — A powerful car bomb exploded early Wednesday outside a barracks housing police officers and their families in this northern Spanish city, slightly injuring 46 people and causing major damage in the area. The attack was blamed on Basque separatist group ETA.
Most of the injuries from the blast were from flying glass, and 38 of the wounded were treated in hospitals, regional ministry representative Miguel Alejo said. Many of the injured were Civil Guard police officers and family members.
The bomb detonated around 4:00 a.m. (0200 GMT, 10 p.m. EDT Tuesday) and left a crater that had filled with water from broken underground pipes, Alejo said.
"The car used to cause the explosion has been displaced some 230 feet so that gives you an idea of the power of the blast," he said.
Police and emergency services did not receive any warning that a bomb had been planted, but the explosion had the hallmarks of an ETA attack, Alejo said. It was not immediately clear how many people were in the building at the time.
Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba was rushing to the scene, his office said.
ETA, which has killed more than 825 people since it launched a campaign in 1968 for an independent homeland in Basque region of northern Spain, typically phones in warnings that a bomb is about to explode giving time to authorities to evacuate the area.
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Calling Zapataro
Good! That is what they get for surrendering to terrorists.
I doubt if they heed it but there is a lesson in that for Democrats.
Is this a teaching moment?
ETA is feeling very emboldened these days.
The Guardia Civil was fortunate in this case because many of the families who normally live there were on vacation and there were fewer people at home when the bomb went off.
Will Spain change governments again?
The USA and UN will immediately recognize their *new country* and the ETA will get CIA funds and weapons to counter any pesky resistance from Madrid. And if Spain raises a ruckus or any real objections, Obama can order NATO to bomb the Spaniards back into the stone age.
Gen. Weaselly Clark could even come out of retirement to run the bombing campaign. After all, he's got tons of experience in killing thousands of innocent civilians from 30,000 feet with 'Dumb Bombs.' It'll be Clinton and Serbia Yugoslavia all over again.
And boy, we sure did show them who was boss, didn't we!
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Good thing Zapatero cut and run like a coward in Iraq or this could have been much worse.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jTg6ukozl01MP0Ts792vFSF1sc3gD99OTMUO0
“Spanish police defuse 2nd bomb on Mallorca”
(AP) – 33 minutes ago
(July 30, 2009)
SNIPPET: “PALMA DE MALLORCA, Balearic Islands — Spanish police say they are defusing a second bomb on the resort island of Mallorca, after an earlier explosion blamed on Basque separatist group killed two police officers.
A police spokesman in Madrid says the second bomb is in the same beach resort area of the Mediterranean island where the two officers were killed Thursday.”
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