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To: kipita

I think ETA has never attacked out of Spain and France.


40 posted on 02/07/2005 4:56:24 AM PST by Reader of news
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To: Dubya's fan

According to the Spanish government, the objective of the attackers was to steal passports and documents (presumably for sale on the blackmarket or use by themselves).

ETA is well known for carrying out IRA-style robberies of things ranging from banks and cash sources to construction companies and other sources of explosives and equipment. So I suppose this could be ETA, particularly since the attackers were heard speaking French. But it would be a robbery, rather than the bombings that ETA carries out simply to terrorize and kill. (On the other hand, I suppose the attackers could be Algerians; all terrorists love to get their hands on fresh, unused passports.)


41 posted on 02/07/2005 5:03:23 AM PST by livius
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To: Dubya's fan

Well, I think ETA is to the Basque country within Spain-France as the NAACP is to black America within the US. Desperate times calls for desperate actions as their relevance is being eroded.


44 posted on 02/07/2005 5:14:20 AM PST by kipita (Rebel – the proletariat response to Aristocracy and Exploitation.)
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