[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=spain

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UPDATE (updated injury numbers)...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061230/ap_on_re_eu/spain_explosion

"Spain suspends plan for talks with ETA"
By MAR ROMAN, Associated Press Writer Sat Dec 30, 6:34 PM ET


ARTICLE SNIPPET: "MADRID, Spain - A powerful car bomb exploded at Madrid's international airport Saturday and Spain's government, blaming the Basque group ETA, suspended plans for peace talks with the separatists.

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The blast left two people missing and 26 injured, most with damage to their ears from the shock wave.

Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said the government would halt talks with ETA over the bombing. The group had agreed to stop attacks in its cease-fire declaration earlier this year that was seen as the greatest hope in a decade of a peaceful end to the conflict.

"The condition for dialogue was and is the unequivocal desire to abandon violence," said Zapatero, who cut short a family holiday after the bombing. "The very grave attack today by the terrorist band ETA is radically contrary to that desire."

Zapatero had insisted as recently as Friday that he was optimistic the cease-fire would lead to a permanent peace.

ETA did not claim responsibility for the bombing, but a man who placed a warning call before the attack said he was a representative of the group. Following previous attacks, the group has sometimes waited weeks to claim responsibility."

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=IRAN
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=Ahmadinejad

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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3345219,00.html

"Opposition group: Iran behind 80 percent of terror attacks in world
Iran opposition group releases detailed brief on Tehran's Qods Force, an 'international Islamic army' exporting attacks worldwide"

Yaakov Lappin
Published: 12.27.06, 14:55

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Iran is behind 80 percent of terror attacks around the world, and uses its elite Qods Force to export and coordinate attacks, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) said in a brief released Tuesday."

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Thanks to DomesticChurch for the ping to this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1760640/posts

and this article:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3346589,00.html

"Iran: Mahdi will defeat archenemy in Jerusalem
State media says, ‘Shiite messiah will kill archenemy in Jerusalem, could come during spring equinox'"

Yaakov Lappin
Published: 12.31.06, 13:01

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A triumphal religious prophecy has appeared on an Iranian official state media website, heralding the return of the Shiite messiah.

According to the website, "Imam Mahdi (may God hasten his reappearance) will appear all of a sudden on the world scene with a voice from the skies announcing his reappearance at the holy Ka'ba in Mecca."

The Islamic Republic of Iran broadcasting (IRIB) website said in a program called 'The World Towards Illumination,' that the Mahdi will reappear in Mecca and form an army to defeat Islam's enemies in a series of apocalyptic battles, in which the Mahdi will overcome his archvillain in Jerusalem.

The series has been regularly updated throughout November and December."