Replies

Off Thread Topic:

http://www.the-news.net/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=1047-2

“US President to visit Portugal this year”
6/2/2010

President Barack Obama, is to visit Portugal this year alongside other international heads of state in November to participate in the NATO summit which will be held for the first time in Portugal.

Even though the summit will only take place nine months from now, on November 19th and 20th, high-level security measures are already being organised for the dignitaries’ visit.

Around 28 member states of the Atlantic Alliance will be in Portugal for the summit.

The exact location for the meeting has not yet been revealed, though it will reportedly be a ‘public space in which road and air traffic can be controlled’.

The dignitaries’ aircraft are expected to land at Lisbon’s main Portela airport, though some may leave Portugal from the Figo Maduro airport.”

Photos:

http://www.elpais.com/fotografia/espana/Etarras/elpdiaesp/20100206elpepunac_9/Ies/

http://www.elpais.com/fotografia/espana/arsenal/elpdiaesp/20100206elpepunac_10/Ies/

http://www.elpais.com/fotografia/espana/Detonacion/elpdiaesp/20100206elpepunac_8/Ies/

#
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/espana/ETA/guardaba/Portugal/mayor/arsenal/encontrado/anos/elpepuesp/20100206elpepunac_5/Tes

2 de 15 en España anterior siguiente

“ETA guardaba en Portugal el mayor arsenal encontrado en diez años
La Policía lusa busca a los dos inquilinos de la vivienda, identificados como Andoni Zengotitabengoa y Oier Gómez Mielgo”
EL PAÍS - Lisboa / Madrid - 06/02/2010

###
###

http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en

Google Translation

“ETA kept in Portugal’s greatest arsenal found in ten years
Lsl Police searching for the two tenants of the apartment, identified as Andoni Zengotitabengoa and Oier
Gomez Mielgo “
COUNTRY - Lisbon / Madrid - 06/02/2010

SNIPPET: “The National Republican Guard (GNR) Portuguese had seized half a ton of
explosives in the house of Obidos, 125 kilometers north of Lisbon, which served as an arsenal to ETA, as
reported sources for combating terrorism. This is the largest arsenal seized in the last ten years and the
largest found outside France. “

SNIPPET: “The explosive arsenal that had the band consisted of 1,330 kilos of ammonium nitrate distributed
twelve o’clock drums, 75 kilos of potassium nitrate divided into three bags, 40 liters of sulfuric acid and other
amounts of PETN, aluminum powder and nitromethane. Also Keep four detonators, several
Portuguese license plates, and various tools for making bombs.

Among the materials seized were two laptops, several maps of Portugal and Spain
registrations that are being discussed at present, as well as other maps of Cadiz, Madrid and the area
northern Portugal without any annotation. Police also analyzes three mobile phones with the
Inscriptions “Madrid”, “Portugal” and “Cadiz” and a box with the words “World”, which the Ministry of
Interior correspond to a type of telephone charges. “

Photo of home:

http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=73164&L=en
http://www.tolerance.ca/image/photo_1265502783187-2-0_73164_G.jpg

Photo caption:

“Police technicians inspect a villa in Obidos, 100 km north of Lisbon. Police in Portugal found nearly 1.5 tonnes of bomb-making materials in a house used by suspected militants from armed Basque separatist group ETA, Spain’s interior ministry said Saturday. (image: AFP - Carlos Barroso)”