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Madrid Attacked...All reporting...none confirming

Posted on 12/03/2004 10:02:48 AM PST by CJR812

This looks like a merger of ETA and Al Qaeda to me


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: basque; bombing; bringoutyerdead; et; eta; gasstations; madrid; petrol; separatists; spain
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To: Americanwolf

Me too.


81 posted on 12/03/2004 12:28:13 PM PST by Conspiracy Guy (This space is available to advertise your service or product.)
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To: international american

I've found that to be the truth.


82 posted on 12/03/2004 12:28:37 PM PST by Conspiracy Guy (This space is available to advertise your service or product.)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

Just wondering, if he is zotted why is this post still up, is he out for good? You all know this guy, or kid, was claiming his dad is in the Bush cabinet. The anti semetic post was the really bad one, most of the others have just been annoying.


83 posted on 12/03/2004 12:59:52 PM PST by Williams
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To: Williams

The mods popped him. Probably for the anti semetic post. But he was posting one annoying vanity after another. Made me think of the bag lady that used to preach to everyone downtown.


84 posted on 12/03/2004 1:18:00 PM PST by Conspiracy Guy (This space is available to advertise your service or product.)
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To: Conspiracy Guy
This is the same guy who posted about ten one-liners last night. I wish they'd've canned him then. I don't wanna talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
85 posted on 12/03/2004 3:39:52 PM PST by K1avg
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To: K1avg

LOL. I love Monty Python.


86 posted on 12/03/2004 7:20:09 PM PST by Conspiracy Guy (This space is available to advertise your service or product.)
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To: MizSterious; rebdov; Nix 2; green lantern; BeOSUser; Brad's Gramma; dreadme; Turk2; keri; ...

Five bombs hit Madrid after threat from Eta
By Elizabeth Nash in Madrid
04 December 2004

Five bombs exploded in petrol stations near motorways in and around Madrid last night following warnings from a spokesman for Eta, the Basque separatist group.

Up to four people were slightly hurt, but serious injuries were averted as police were able to evacuate the sites before the bombs went off. Rush-hour traffic was paralysed on the eve of a long weekend holiday, when millions of Madrileños were heading out of town.

Police were told of a warning that was posted on the website of the radical separatist Basque newspaper Gara 50 minutes before the devices exploded. Gara, in San Sebastian, said it received a telephone call from a caller identifying himself as a member of Eta.

Police said the bombs, which were left in rubbish bins, were small and caused relatively little damage. The five petrol stations were cordoned off by police and firefighters. Motorways out of town were closed while police investigated the areas, leading to enormous traffic jams.

The proprietor of one of the garages, in Batan on the western fringes of the capital, said he had received a telephone warning that bomb would go off 50 minutes later. The other garages were also on motorways out of town.

The devices were clearly intended to cause chaos and public alarm without causing serious harm, in accordance with the recent strategy of the armed separatists. The bombs were said to be comparable to those placed at various tourist resorts in the summer, also claimed by Eta, which were apparently not intended to cause injury or death.

The group has been blamed for more than 800 deaths since the late 1960s. Its last fatal attack was in May 2003; a car bombing that killed two policemen in the northern town of Sanguesa.

Last month, a banned party seen as Eta's political wing proposed a new formula for peace talks with the government, raising hopes that Eta might be prepared to end its armed struggle.

The leader of the banned Batasuna party, Arnaldo Otegi, urged thousands of supporters in a sports hall in San Sebastian on 15 November to "take the Basque conflict out of the streets" and to the negotiating table. Mr Otegi called on other Basque political parties "not to drop this olive branch".

The latest bomb blasts proved once more that Eta still has formidable operational capability. They also suggest that Mr Otegi has limited influence on Eta. "Otegi is completely subordinate to Eta and his proposal for dialogue is therefore completely without credibility," said Gaspar Llamazares, leader of the United Left party.

This is the first time Eta has shown signs of life in Madrid since the 11 March train bombings that were initially blamed on the organisation, before evidence emerged pointing to al-Qa'ida. But for many years, Eta has always mounted some spectacular operation in the Spanish capital to coincide with the Christmas holiday season. Last Christmas Eve, a train bomb at Madrid's Chamartin station was thwarted by police.

In December 2002, the Civil Guard foiled plans to plant a car bomb in the capital. And in December 1999, police intercepted a van en route to Madrid carrying a ton and a half of dynamite destined for a huge Christmas bombing campaign.

Meanwhile, in a report released earlier in the day, Amnesty International attacked the Spanish authorities for frequently allowing torture of suspected Eta members and illegal immigrants.

In a study of 450 court cases between 1980 and 2004, the human rights watchdog criticised the chronic slowness of Spanish courts and frequent impunity for torturers.

While it said there was no systematic police torture, Amnesty identified a growing problem of racist treatment of illegal immigrants. Amnesty said Spain's practice of holding incommunicado suspected members of Eta or al-Qa'ida encouraged torture. The rights group said victims were often not adequately compensated because their torturers could not be identified. It called for sanctions to punish officials who conceal torture and demanded that Spain sign up to a United Nations protocol on torture.

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=589582


87 posted on 12/04/2004 7:48:22 AM PST by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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To: CJR812

I haven't heard anything.


88 posted on 12/04/2004 7:55:11 AM PST by Grzegorz 246
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To: SampleMan

"How subjective of the Spanish. Just because they try to achieve political ends by blowing things up and killing people, while supporting themselve through criminal means. I hate MSM qualifiers like this."

Good point. Rush reported that cow carcasses are being blown up in Spain, too. Cows, well, they walk off of cliffs sometimes. You know how cows can be. So the farmers blow them up. Could this be exploding cow related? Or perhaps cow exploding farmers are spreading terror among the cows. PETA should check into this. Perhaps it's the cows seeking revenge.


89 posted on 12/04/2004 8:13:34 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (God bless our Iranian friend! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1292792/posts?page=151,16)
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To: knighthawk
"Up to four people were slightly hurt, but serious injuries were averted as police were able to evacuate the sites before the bombs went off. Rush-hour traffic was paralysed on the eve of a long weekend holiday, when millions of Madrileños were heading out of town."

ETA may need to learn from al qaida: actually killing a bunch of them works best to change peoples' votes and to influence politicians. This 'kind-of killing' may not herd the sheep as effectively.

/disgusted sarcasm
90 posted on 12/04/2004 8:27:54 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (God bless our Iranian friend! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1292792/posts?page=151,16)
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To: knighthawk

Thank you


91 posted on 12/04/2004 9:50:49 AM PST by anonymoussierra
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To: anonymoussierra

No problem!


92 posted on 12/04/2004 12:19:15 PM PST by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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