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And from the same article:

"I don't think it was conscious manipulation," says Jesús Barquín Sanz, director of the University of Granada's Criminology Institute. Blaming ETA "was the result of a pre-established mind-set."

Just before Christmas they caught the ETA attempting to bomb the same trains in a similar manner. After a successful similar attack only a few months later it would be natural to assume the same perpetrators.

The fact remains that it was the very same government that is being accused of covering up who provided the contrary evidence to the public that indicated the ETA was probably not responsible. And for all we really know at this point both ETA and al Quaeda could have been working together.

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The fact remains that it was the very same government that is being accused of covering up who provided the contrary evidence to the public that indicated the ETA was probably not responsible.

Eventually; the delay – whether intentional, to try and save the election, or the result of a pre-established mind-set – was perceived, at least partially, as a cover up. I was responding to your response to Tibbo (and yes I realize he has only been here 2 days an could possibly be a DU troll) I don’t think it is accurate to blame the election results exclusively on fear. I do realize that is how al-Qaeda will see it.