Posted on 01/30/2005 6:49:17 AM PST by redstate_redneck
Sounds more like an Airing of Grievances.
Awwwwwwwwww.... well, then they can just raise taxes! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.............
OOPS, sorry, did I say that out loud?
Prayers for the injured, but it's yet another wake up call to Zappo.... you can not make friends with terrorists...cuz they lie.
OMG! I used to live in Denia for a while. A sleepy little town - lots of old ruins from the Moslem rule. An odd place to choose for a "statement".
That would be FEETS of Strength. LOL
Unlikely to be ETA: they target government targets, and the press report says nothing of their usual phone warning.
(Come to think of it, since they always attack the government, and actually go to effort to minimize civilian casualties by giving timely warnings, should we even consider ETA to be terrorists? Rebels, yes, revolutionaries, yes, misguided, yes, but their activities really do seem to fit the terms 'asymmetric warfare' or 'insurgency', without quite fitting the definition of terrorism.)
Of course, maybe they've decided to be terrorists and this is one of theirs--personally I'm betting on the 'retake al-Andalus' crowd.
The ETA is never going to influence Spanish voters - they've been trying for decades - unless they adopt al-Qaeda tactics. A few railroad bombings in one day and they'll get Basque independence within the week.
Well, that's what I get for making judgements based on sketchy reports. I see from the later posted Babelfish translation of a better report from the Spanish press that there was a warning and it was ETA.
I wonder why they picked the hotel.
And another thing--do all Spanish hotels look alike, or is that the hotel where some of the scene in the Scotch indie film Morven Callar were shot?
No, it is for "The Airing of grievances"!
This cannot be true. Spain bent over for the terrorists. I am certain that they have now earned peace with them... /heavy, dripping sarcasm
But I thought they were safe from terrorist attacks after voting for the candidate chosen by the terrorist.Maybe the terrorist have another demand that the Spanish people could meet, like surrender.So far the terrorist are playing the Spanish like a bunch of French wimps.
"several dowries of the National Police"..?
hard to know what to make of this..
It's not always been like that (Barcelona, June 1988, 21 casualties in a supermarket) and if it is not still like that is because:
-They can´t
- Even if they could, that became too unpopular among their own supporters. I call that marketing but not humanity.
I know it was not your intention but please don't fall in these people's strategy.
I'm hardly suggesting any sympathy for ETA, or that they are in any way right, or that their tactics are not wrong, or that the Spanish authorities shouldn't deal with them harshly, just suggesting that we be precise in our use of language:
Terrorism is a tactic, an evil tactic which seeks to sew terror among the populace by killing civilians unpredictably. Terrorists are people who employ this tactic. In recent time at least, ETA has used a different, while still reprehensible, tactic.
I know, I know. But for us ETA is quite an old thing (before I was born) so for us it difficult to see them as any other thing but plain terrorists. Maybe they are having a hard time (not because of their will but because of the actions of spanish police) but we are not likely to change an impression that we have formed day by day after years.
I have said in my post that I knew it was not your intention but I still wanted to insist in that point.
Well, considering that the last President that we had in Spain who belonged to the same party as ZP started a dirty war against ETA by hiring mercenaries I don't know if ETA was exactly wishing them to go back to the government.
Not all terrorist aim the same although all of them use more or less the same way or at least the same despise for other's life, what a shitty world this is...
Point well taken, good fortune to your fellow Spaniards who are investigating and trying to bring ETA to justice.
I made my point partly because it drive me mad when the USS Cole bombing is called terrorism. While al Qaeda are undoubtedly terrorists, the Cole attack was not an instance of terrorism, but an unprovoked act of war--it targetted a military target and can hardly be seen as intending to sew terror among any populace.
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