[alloysteel]

Who says that ETA has very much to do with it? This is a smaller 9/11, exerted on what was considered to a softer target than any in the US. Perhaps the better comparison would be to the attacks of US embassies in Africa.

Al-Qaeda trying to draw attention AWAY from Afghanistan and Pakistan. We should hope, that Spain does not treat this as a law enforcement problem.

[breakem]

If anyone runs a pig list on this, please add me. Wife and due in Madrid in 4 weeks with two train trips scheduled.

[John H K]

Eh, the only evidence I've seen that it's AQ is the burning desire of people on FR to have these attacks be AQ and not ETA.

Last month they stopped a big ETA attack in Madrid before it happened.

And I think people are greatly exaggerating the "politeness" of ETA in their desire to portray this as an AQ attack.