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Spain's most wanted terrorist was arrested early Monday morning in southern France. French police raided an apartment in the Pyrenees town of Cauterets and captured Garikoitz Aspiazu, the military leader of the Basque separatist terror group ETA, who goes by the nom-de-guerre 'Txeroki.' The arrest comes, evocatively, at a time when rumors are running high of a breach between hardliners and moderates within ETA's political sphere...
...this had happened in the 1980s, when ETA was stronger, it would have been an important arrest, but not a crucial one," says sociologist Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca, ETA expert at the Juan March Institute, a Madrid-based think tank. "But there have been a lot of important arrests recently, which means that whoever replaces Txeroki won't have much experience, and that, in turn, will make them even weaker." (See Pictures of the Week...
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Having suffered a dozen lethal terror attacks this year, Indians have almost stopped reacting to terror incidents with shock and horror. But recent news of the arrest of 10 people linked with two relatively small terror attacks earlier this year has created a national furor, and is likely to skew political parties' calculations ahead of next year's general elections...
Burundi's government, however, says it is concerned about security, and that Sinduhije is being treated justly. "I don't think that the reason they arrest him is to scare him or is in connection to the upcoming election," Celestin Niyongabo, the Burundian ambassador to the United States, told TIME. "Burundi is a country emerging from conflict," and given potential security threats, "the police had the right to go and look at what is happening in the house of any citizen." He emphasized that Sinduhije has access to a lawyer. He could not say when the trial would...