Spain Announces Five Arrests in Bombings

Reuters, AP | 3/13/04

[Azzurri]

Tomorrow is a huge day in the war on terrorism. If the Socialists win in Spain, it will give the terrorists a road map to victory...terrorize a country and watch it's citizens capitulate. I'm fairly sure another terrorist response in the US would solidify support behind the pro-war on terror party (the Republicans), but I'm not sure of the same response in Europe. I hold out hope for the Spaniards...we'll see.

[livius]

I was referring to the reports of anti-Aznar demonstrations breaking out all over Spain.

[Darlin']

Nadler makes no attempt to answer a simple question, he just jumps to the latest talking point attack on the President. Hes a vicious partisan pig.

[livius]

They're not, they're Indians (no doubt Muslims). The news reports have all clarified it to read citizens of India.

[hellinahandcart]

AQ Communists

The Islamists are just the latest tool/weapon.

[Darlin']

I wouldn't be surprised.

[VOA]

It was as if the administration did not want to draw attention to aspects of
the case which suggested an Iraqi link to the Trade Center bombing.

Thanks for the reference.
Hey, Bill Clinton was all about putting off the unpleasantries until he
was out of office...no shock about that.

I'm still recovering from the passage in (I may have some spellings wrong) Miniter's
book "Losing bin Laden" (correct title?) about the meeting of Clinton's council after
the bombing (near-sinking) of the USS Cole.
If it wasn't so scary, the fact that all the members of the council (Albright, Reno,
etc.), with the ONE exception of Richard Clarke found reasons to basically do NOTHING.

[Iberian]

We chased those bastards out Spain 500 years ago, forgot to kill them all on the way out.

[livius]

AQ has successfully infiltrated the press all around the world.

This is the truth. Don't forget the Democratic Party, too.

[MEG33]

Thank you for keeping us informed.

[arasina]

A protester holds a sign blaming Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar for the Madrid terrorist bombing after mourners observed a minute of silence outside the Cervantes Institute in New York Friday, March 12, 2004. Thursday's rush hour attack in Madrid killed 199 people. (AP Photo/Jennifer Szyzmazek)

[AntiGuv]

Don't hold out too much hope. The European mentality of appeasement is far more deeply entrenched than one might imagine. Yesterday I happened to speak by phone with some Greek acquaintances of mine and wondered how concerned they were about the Olympics, considering what had happened in Spain. Their response was basically: 'That's ridiculous. Why on Earth would the Muslims attack Greece? The Greeks haven't done anything to them and we didn't support the U.S. in Iraq. Greece has good relations with the Muslim countries.'

[livius]

If it weren't for this stupid soccer game, I'd be able to do a better job of it! You get five seconds of news and then they go back to the soccer game. (Just like the American media....)

[ValerieUSA]

I wonder how many millions the dearly pardoned Marc Rich had made from illegal trade with Iraq during the Clinton administration?

[livius]

Thanks for posting that.

Note that the signs are in English. Now who do you suppose they were intended for?

[Darlin']

"Rajoy does not think the demos are spontaneous. (I don't, either.)"

I don't think they were spontaneus, either. I don't believe in election eve coincidences.

[AmishDude]

The point is that they are having trouble recruiting. Even with the insane Islamic birthrate, suicide bombers are a finite quantity.

[livius]

Note arasina's post 353.

According to Spanish radio, there are no signs indicating party affiliation, just "anti war" signs and signs blaming the PP for having called down the wrath of AQ on Spain.