Spain Announces Five Arrests in Bombings

Reuters, AP | 3/13/04

[VOA]

proud to give an early bump!
Go get 'em Spain!

[Crazieman]

[billorites]

Not sure what this will mean for the election tomorrow.

CW was that Al Queda involvement would favor the Socialists at the polls.

[thoughtomator]

Why would it favor socialists?

[NautiNurse]

Fast action! Interesting that the perps didn't martyr themselves.

WTG Spain!!!

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

starts with four.....I wonder how high it will go

[JOHANNES801]

Muslims,I am shocked I tell you,shocked.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Surely this is a big misunderstanding and the members of the religion of peace (TM) will be cleared. Ever notice that there weren't any Jews on the train?

Time to stop asking myself what the leftist response would be...

[elhombrelibre]

Socialist want to appease terrorism, not support war against it. Part of their decadent logic is that the victims had it random violence coming for the Goverment's supporting the removal of the despot Saddam.

[petercooper]

how dare they identify them as "muslims"

it's the religion of peace, you know.

[billorites]

Reading El Mundo is says that four arabs were found with a prepaid phone card linked to one of the unexploded backpack bombs.

[livius]

They've arrested 10 Moroccans.

"...la detención de 10 marroquíes posiblemente relacionados con el atentado del pasado jueves. Según las causas comentadas por los detenidos, el atentado se realizó por el apoyo español en la guerra de Irak..."

...the arrest of 10 Moroccans possibly related to Thursday's attack. According to those arrested, the attack was carried out because of Spanish support for the war in Iraq.

[dep]

several reasons. first, the government's view has been that it's an internal matter involving the basques. second, that the government has not protected the country from al qaeda. third, by going along with the war on terror, the government has made spain a target.

[Rams82]

I wonder if the Spanish will still be blaming ETA after this.

[elhombrelibre]

I hope your "Jews on the train" was some sardonic wit. Jews get killed all the time by these Islamic nihilistic terrrorist.

[July 4th]

Islam strikes again.

[Rams82]

Where is that from?

[livius]

I think this news means the Socialists will win tomorrow, unless the Spanish have more cojones than I thought.

[Alberta's Child]

Because the Socialists were opposed to Spain's involvement in Iraq in the first place.

Call me cynical, but I suspect that this is why the Spanish government was so quick to blame ETA for this.

On a separate note, I'm struck by a conversation I had last year with a close friend of mine from a moderate Islamic country -- which introduces the intriguing possibility that these Muslims have nothing to do with al-Qaeda.

I'll post more as further details emerge.