[Betaille]

"This isn't an ETA trademark."

Not only does ETA claim responsibility for their attacks... they even warn ahead of time to MINIMIZE civilian casualties. This has no mark of ETA whatsoever and the spanish government is in wishful thinking mode. They need to accept the fact that the RELIGION OF PEACE is after them too now.

[Dog Gone]

The Spanish discovered some unexploded bombs which they were able to examine. If they say the bombs are constructed the way ETA makes them, which they apparently have stated, then you should take them at their word.

The Spanish are not idiots. They know ETA better than you do, and they have quite a few in custody.

They also know that aligning themselves with America in the War on Terror made them potential targets of al-Qaida.

If the Spanish say it was the ETA, then it was.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I don't know anything about the Basque situation, and not much more about other terrorist operatives, but....

Are the Basque contingent generally "kamikaze"?

Did they find any dead *perpetrators* at the bomb scenes?

Seems to me Moslems generally like to do suicide along w/the homicide, so I'm wondering about that facet.

[hoyaloya]

People. Come on. The world doesn't just move to the rythms of the U.S. and our problems.

Having lived in Madrid for 7 years, ETA exists and kills people. To suggest there is no evidence against ETA here, is, well, stupid and yes, I hate to say it but ignorant. Now I don't know if they did it but neither do any of you.

You are in wishful thinking mode because you, and several other posters here, WANT to think its al qaeda. We all lose credibility when you instantly assume you understand the problems of a country like Spain through your political need of the day. For 7 years in the 70s and 80s I walked past guardia civil troopers with submachines on the streets because of ETA.

If they refuse to investigate and just incriminate ETA, that's ridiculous. They won't be doing that though. With this many people dead, they don't care who the perpetrators are, they just want them punished.

[crazycat]

I heard on the BBC tonight that Downing st had this pegged as al-Queda from 9.00 am this morning, but they won't say it in public.