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South Koreans display wreckage of sunken patrol ship
Stars and Stripes ^ | May 19, 2010 | Ashley Rowland
Posted on May 19, 2010 11:10:47 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
PYEONGTAEK, South Korea — Investigators let media have a look at the wreckage of the Cheonan on Wednesday, the day before South Korea was to formally announce that a North Korea torpedo sank the South Korean patrol ship.
The wreckage of the March 26 sinking was retrieved from the Yellow Sea near the maritime border between the two Koreas and hauled to South Korea’s Second Fleet Command base in Pyeongtaek.
Yoon Duk-yong, an investigator with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, told reporters Wednesday that evidence from the recovered pieces of the ship points to a torpedo attack. He said a torpedo likely exploded near the Cheonan, causing a shock wave bubble that split it in half and caused impacted areas of the patrol boat to “dish,” or bend inward.
Yoon said the boat appeared to have been hit in one strike, making it likely that the damage was caused by a torpedo instead of a mine.
Media were granted access to the wreckage Wednesday on condition they not publish material until after 10 a.m. Thursday, when officials at a press conference were expected to formally announce that North Korea is to blame for the sinking that killed 46 sailors.
Experts have said South Korea will ask for more United Nations sanctions against North Korea, instead of responding with a military strike. South Korea will also likely ask the U.S. to delay the transfer of operational wartime control – when South Korea assumes wartime command of its troops – which is now scheduled for April 17, 2012, they said.
U.S. analysts joined the South Korean-led investigation team that determined the cause of the explosion, and U.S. underwater explosive ordnance and rescue-and-salvage teams aided in the search for the wreckage.
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Suspected ETA military chief arrested in France
France24 ^ | 20 May 2010 | Wire
Posted on May 20, 2010 2:40:15 AM PDT by csvset
French police said on Thursday they had arrested the suspected military leader of the Basque separatist movement ETA in the south-western city of Bayonne.
AFP - French anti-terrorist police on Thursday arrested the suspected military chief of the Basque separatist group ETA, Mikel Karrera Sarobe, police sources said.
Two other suspected ETA members — also Spanish nationals — were arrested with Karrera Sarobe when detectives and anti-terrorist police raided a house in the southwestern French city of Bayonne at daybreak, the sources said.
They were a man and a woman, and one of them is suspected of being the number-two figure in ETA’s military branch, the sources said, adding that weapons had been seized.
Two further arrests were made in the Bayonne area, one source said, without giving details.
Cooperation between Madrid and Paris has in the past two years led to the arrests of five top ETA leaders in France, which the group has long used as a rear base from which to stage attacks in Spain.
Karrera Sarobe, alias Ata or “duck” in the Basque language, was identified as ETA’s new military leader on a revised most-wanted list issued by Spanish police on March 16 in their pursuit of ETA militants.
ETA — classified as a terrorist group by the European Union, and held responsible for the deaths of 828 people in a violent campaign for Basque independence — has carried out no attacks on Spanish soil since August 2009.
But it is blamed for the March 16 killing of Jean-Serge Nerin a 52-year-old French police brigadier during a shoot-out in the Paris region that erupted during a standard police identity check.
Police sources told AFP that the second male suspect seized on Thursday is suspected of having been a member of the ETA cell that carried out the March shooting. “We’re checking out this link,” an officer said.
More than 30 suspected ETA members have been arrested in 2010, including ETA’s new leader Ibon Gogeascoechea Arronategui, who was captured in February in northwestern France