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...Zapatero's administration may be set by the country's fight against the Basque terrorist group ETA, which has killed over 800 people in the last 36 years during its campaign for an independent state. That battle largely defined the eight years of José María Aznar's government, whose fate was sealed by its insistence on ETA authorship of the March 11 bombings. Might al-Qaeda's attacks on Madrid mark the end of ETA as well? The sheer size and indiscriminate horror of the bombings trumped the Basque terrorists' targeted approach...
...French village of Saint Michel, a few kilometers from the Spanish border. On Friday, French police arrested three men in Châtellerault, about 300 km southwest of Paris, possessing what outgoing Spanish Interior Minister Angel Acebes said were "prepared and assembled bombs." The end of the Aznar era also creates what Zabaleta calls "a very propitious atmosphere for a truce." In his speech last week presenting his program, the incoming Prime Minister stressed a word that had been anathema to Aznar: dialogue. While promising a "battle without quarter against all terrorism," Zapatero clearly signaled a new approach to demands...
...Your coverage of the commuter-train bombings in Madrid accurately summed up what happened and its consequences [March 22]. It is still shocking to think about the horror. Some people hold Prime Minister José María Aznar responsible for the attacks and view them as retaliation for his decision to join the U.S. in the war against Saddam Hussein. But many Spaniards do not blame Aznar. Can people really believe terrorists attack only "guilty" nations and leave "innocent" countries alone? Do the victims deserve to die because of what their country has done in Iraq? We must stand...
...polls from the six months leading up to Spain’s national election—including those taken as late as last week—Mariano Rajoy looked certain to coast to victory. The handpicked successor of outgoing Prime Minister José María Aznar, Rajoy ran on a strong antiterrorism platform; but after the recent bombings in Madrid, fear and suspicion gripped the country and Spaniards swept Socialist leader José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero into victory. If we didn’t know it before, this weekend’s election in Spain provided...
...March 11, 2004, now occupies a place in the history of infamy." JOSE MARIA AZNAR, Prime Minister of Spain, on the train bombings that killed more than 200 people...